standards must be maintained
Dec. 16th, 2009 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
westernindArrrgggh, I misspelled 'exploitative' in my last post, and can spot at least one grammatical error that wasn't there for comedic effect.
My workload has exploded, because I'm keeping my normal job going plus doing the design and styling on the Sharepoint project. Just one seventy-plus hour week and I'm a zombie (not in a good way) for most of Saturday. God knows how the markets and the financial stability people kept this up for weeks when it was all going pear-shaped.
Or indeed Agii, our guide in Western Mongolia. He told us that in term-time he works 40 hours during the week teaching English in the state school in Ulgii, then runs his own English school for 20 hours at the weekend. Then for the three month summer break when the kids go back to the countryside to help their families with the herding, he does tourist guiding full-time. For this, I suspect he gets paid less than $200 a month.
Consequently I did say I was going to stop complaining about overwork. Ooops. My memory is short, and perforated.
My workload has exploded, because I'm keeping my normal job going plus doing the design and styling on the Sharepoint project. Just one seventy-plus hour week and I'm a zombie (not in a good way) for most of Saturday. God knows how the markets and the financial stability people kept this up for weeks when it was all going pear-shaped.
Or indeed Agii, our guide in Western Mongolia. He told us that in term-time he works 40 hours during the week teaching English in the state school in Ulgii, then runs his own English school for 20 hours at the weekend. Then for the three month summer break when the kids go back to the countryside to help their families with the herding, he does tourist guiding full-time. For this, I suspect he gets paid less than $200 a month.
Consequently I did say I was going to stop complaining about overwork. Ooops. My memory is short, and perforated.
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