From dreamwvr@global.co.za Thu Jan 8 15:53:10 1998 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:09:34 +0200 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Why Cetaceans? I'm trying to understand exactly why a Corp would want to hire Cetaceans for office work. I can see the obvious advantage of hiring them for marine work. But the cost of office work - you need special machinery, special quarters, special equipement, special dietary requirements and they aren't even as intellectually inclined (on average) as humans. So why Cetaceans? The costs way outweight the benefits. You could get a human to do the job cheaper and better. As an investment decision, I'd rather skip having a Cetacean employee. Am I missing something here? Why hire a Cetacean for office work? *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From awillia8@wvu.edu Thu Jan 8 15:53:10 1998 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:06:23 -0500 From: Ghost Reply-To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM To: "blue_planet@lists.MPGN.COM" Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Why Cetaceans? dreamwvr wrote: > I'm trying to understand exactly why a Corp would want to hire > Cetaceans > for office work. I can see the obvious advantage of hiring them for > marine > work. But the cost of office work - you need special machinery, > special > quarters, special equipement, special dietary requirements and they > aren't > even as intellectually inclined (on average) as humans. > > So why Cetaceans? The costs way outweight the benefits. You could get > a > human to do the job cheaper and better. As an investment decision, I'd > > rather skip having a Cetacean employee. Am I missing something here? > > Why hire a Cetacean for office work? > Affirmative action : ) Seriously, though, it may be that a cetacean happens to be the best person for the job. I was reading the rulebook the other day, and noted that the majority of Earth's population didn't have any type of degree. I'd take this to mean that the Blight has caused a general downturn in education, thus making highly skilled workers a rarity. A cetacean may be the only person available for the job. It is simple supply and demand. A good example for today would be Cobol programmers. Several years ago, Cobol programmers were pretty common, and thus a corporation had several people to choose from when hiring. Now, Cobol programmers are relatively rare. All the corporations have stuff in Cobol, but all anyone knows is C(or something), and it's cheaper to pay the cost of 125 to 150 thousand a year to a Cobol programmer to change their existing programs rather than pay for an entire development team to change everything over. Another thought that just occurred to me would be the PR factor. The corporation would probably look better in the eyes of the public for giving a cetacean an office job. It tells everyone "we don't discriminate, peole are people," and gives the corporation a slight edge when selling its products, especially to other cetaceans. I would think that fewer cetaceans would buy Power Shells from Hydrospan if Hydrospan weren't promarily a cetacean-run company. -- "Trouble is a runaway freight train without a cowcatcher." >> Ghost << *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.