From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: More job losses : 1700 Jobs To Go At Landrover in Birmingham
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:11:53 GMT

Paul Hyett wrote:

> In uk.politics.misc on Tue, 7 Feb 2006 at 06:04:21, A N O'Nymous wrote :
>>
>>Grassy Knollington wrote:
>>
>>> Does that mean we can reduce politicians salaries to about £5k per 5
>>> year term then?
>>
>>Everyone should be paid their worth and employed as necessary. That
>>includes factory workers right up to fat cats and politicians.
>>
>>If someone can do the same job at a lower price, the more expensive one
>>either lowers his salary or gets replaced.
> 
> You seem to regard people as mere commodities, rather than sentient
> beings with feelings & families & mortgages. Soulless drones like you
> are precisely what caused unions to be set up in the first place!

Staff *are* commodities (resources), not persons.  Witness the fact that
it has become fashionable over the past decade or two for most
employers to rename their personnel departments to HR.