Harvey,
I totally agree with you, there are many reasons to work on your own
passions outside of work. Many of us here at Talis do exactly that.
Being asked to do that is another matter...
rob
On 5 Sep 2007, at 17:14, Hahn, Harvey wrote:
> Rob Styles wrote:
> |2. subsidising your workplace
> |When Alex was told that he would have to do work in his spare time in
> |order to show people the benefit he was being asked to subsidise his
> |employer. However nicely put the underlying message is that he is not
> |trusted enough to warrant even the smallest investment of time.
> |
> |It is perfectly reasonable, of course, not to invest in every idea -
> |there is never enough time or money to do everything and priorities
> |must be called. That's not what Alex was told, though. He was told
> |that to pursue his idea he should subsidise the library by working on
> |his own time. This strikes me as very, very wrong.
>
> I don't know if Alex's employers actually told him what you've said
> they
> told him, so I'm not going to address that.
>
> However, I think there's at least one other interpretation of doing
> something on your own time: working outside the box. If you can't
> accomplish what you'd like *on* the job, then (if you're passionate
> enough) you need to do it *off* the job. (Of course, if you're
> passionate enough about wanting to do it on the job, then you'd
> need to
> find a new job where such is possible.) It's also the kind of thing
> that you might need to do off the job so that you can bring it to a
> new
> employer. I don't think this is "very, very wrong", nor do I think
> distrust is the only explanation for doing stuff outside of work time.
>
> Harvey
>
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