Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Pimp-A-Friend: janetmiles

Today is Pimp-A-Friend day. LiveJournal is a wonderful place to connect with interesting people. Feature one of your Friends, with a brief description of what makes their journal worth reading, and share the joy. Readers are encouraged to visit the featured journal and/or reply to this message with recommendations of their favorite Friends.

janetmiles blogs about a great many things, including but not limited to science fiction, computers, life in the southern U.S., current events, and education. Her journal is set to "adult concepts" for some very insightful discussions of nonstandard romantic practices. She loves poetry, and fiction and nonfiction too. She has been on LiveJournal for years; novice bloggers can learn good habits by observing her blog. A very thorough and interesting description of her interests and topics appears in her profile.
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  • 5 comments
je_reviens

je_reviens

January 12 2009, 19:16:16 UTC 12 years ago

She is pro-union and likes books -- I added her! Plus I already learned something new from her LJ. Excellent.
janetmiles

janetmiles

January 12 2009, 21:46:39 UTC 12 years ago

Believe it or not, I'm only recently pro-union -- growing up, I was taught (alternately) "unions had a place when they started, but we don't need them anymore" and "unions want to destroy business". It wasn't until I started hearing about United Campus Workers and what they were doing that I changed my mind. I'm now very pro-union!

If you don't mind my asking, what new thing did you learn?
ysabetwordsmith

Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

January 12 2009, 22:35:51 UTC 12 years ago

"We don't need unions anymore" is variable -- true in some places, false in many others. "Unions want to destroy business" is nonsense; it would mean losing jobs, instead of preserving and improving them. Ideally, workers are a vital part of a company, and smart employers treat them well because happy healthy employees are much more productive. But many business owners are shortsighted and don't care about long-term damage if the short-term bottom line can be maximized. In such context, unions provide one way of minimizing the damage. I tend to favor unions, because they usually don't show up unless they're necessary -- but I would greatly prefer to rearrange the world so they aren't necessary at all.
je_reviens

je_reviens

January 13 2009, 17:36:11 UTC 12 years ago

To put housekeeping's tip on the pillow.
ayoub

ayoub

January 12 2009, 19:42:53 UTC 12 years ago

She seems very interesting! :D