Friday, July 27, 2007

In the business world....

...you get paid for the hours you work.

Good thing that education isn't a business (unless you're going to invoke the unregulated "free market reform" mantra for school choice) because in Oklahoma, state legislators want teachers to work five extra days a year, and they won't go for pay increases unless merit pay is on the table.

3 comments:

ms. whatsit said...

Our district added an extra day to the upcoming year, and we have to report one day earlier than originally proposed. Oh, they'll pay us, but at what I like to call "house cleaner wages".

No doubt this has set a precedent for next year . . .

Ryan said...

The part I like:

Damon Gardenhire, spokesman for Cargill, criticized the teachers making the calls for being against an idea before it has even been thoroughly discussed.

What, after thoroughly discussing adding 5 unpaid days to the calendar the teachers will go, "OK, we'll do it, because you talked about it a lot!"?

KauaiMark said...

"In the business world...you get paid for the hours you work"

Actually not true. In the professional business world you are "salaried exempt".

You are paid a yearly salary and expected to work until the job gets done on time even if that means sometimes 10-12hr(or more) days and weekends.

It rarely means 8hr/day work weeks.

If you DO manage to do the job in 40hrs/week or less, you usually get assigned more work.

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