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Tue, 01-16-2007 - 7:47pm
Is your work status working for you wrt

Sabina

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Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:44pm

"It depends. Did they interview many people, did they hire a friend, references etc, etc, etc. Show me one single statement in this topic were someone pulled a stranger in off the street and hired them to clean their house"

You'd probably have to ask those posters those questions.

You're right. I have to though. It's either that or risk getting thrown in jail.

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:46pm

No, that is not what you specifically asked me. i will ask you to clarify next time :)

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Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:47pm
And I have also stated that I have someone else take care of my plumbing and electric and anything else that I don't know how to do. SO, what's the problem?
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:47pm

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No, I cut and pasted your exact comment.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:48pm
That's great.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:49pm

So is everyone.


PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:49pm
Ahhhhh....the ideology thing rears its ugly head again. It sounds like you have a moral (rather than practical) issue with hiring people to do anything that you deem "dirty work". That if it is "dirty" (as cleaning by definition is), that the person who is outsourcing it is doing so because they feel they are "above" such work and therefore consider those who do it to be "below". (I am gathering this from a collection of your posts and especially the one that mentioned "intellectual plane"). But the actuality is that people outsource these things not because the work is "beneath" them but rather because it is convenient to hire somebody else to do it; an exchange of freed-up time (even if only an hour or two) for money paid out. Get your head out of the 19th century.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:50pm

That's what I am asking.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:52pm
Yes, I do get a special feeling when I fold someone's laundry. i don't know what kind of feeling they get and it doesn't matter to them, I guess. But, as I said before I do not want strangers touching my personal items.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:52pm
Take off the hair shirt. It is not more noble to do mundane things yourself. It is merely cheaper. This is just the chore version of the classic "you are avoiding your child-raising responsibilities" charge leveled at WOHMS. Outsourcing is not an evasion of responsibility. It is participating in the economy.

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