tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post3832233787745283573..comments2023-11-29T13:13:23.022+00:00Comments on newgate news: Lost, stolen or strayed - the work ethicMacheathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-72252983642274328762011-10-15T08:57:49.126+01:002011-10-15T08:57:49.126+01:00Good point, AKH/Julia; perhaps I should have stipu...Good point, AKH/Julia; perhaps I should have stipulated a <i>plastic</i> plant as sold by cheap and tacky office suppliers - although recent news stories have shown that, when the taxpayer foots the bill, no expense is spared: remember the greenery surrounding Harriet Harman's <a href="http://newgatenews.blogspot.com/2010/06/invasion-of-pod-people.html" rel="nofollow">green glass 'peace pods'</a> at the Dept. for Communities and Local Government and the Equalities Office?<br /><br />Mar Lizaro, welcome to the Tavern! You are absolutely right; schools have encouraged this attitude to the point where it becomes the norm.<br /><br />Matters educational being something of a Leitmotif here, I'll be posting on that in the near future.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-34817555221587281162011-10-15T07:01:56.530+01:002011-10-15T07:01:56.530+01:00Even rubber plants produce usable oxygen...Even rubber plants produce usable oxygen...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-91234092584763164512011-10-14T22:42:54.971+01:002011-10-14T22:42:54.971+01:00This sort of attitude is nourished in schools wher...This sort of attitude is nourished in schools where the work ethic should be taught, from the age of 5.<br />Our schools instead teach children how to get by without fulfilling their obligations. We reap what we sow.Mar Lizarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06468016037897533396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-56224332767423403862011-10-14T20:37:44.105+01:002011-10-14T20:37:44.105+01:00"examples of the sort of worker whose output ..."examples of the sort of worker whose output approximates that of the office rubber plant."<br /><br />Unfair to rubber plants surely. I've come across people with even less to contribute than a rubber plant.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.com