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Company News: Blog
RIP Canadian Wheat Board
07 December 2011
Now that our Happy Planet mayor is back in the saddle for another term, we can be re-assured that we can continue to convert our front lawns to grow wheat. Even better news is that, since the House of Commons last week voted to end the Canadian Wheat Board's 76-year monopoly on the sale of wheat...
07 December 2011
Now that our Happy Planet mayor is back in the saddle for another term, we can be re-assured that we can continue to convert our front lawns to grow wheat. Even better news is that, since the House of Commons last week voted to end the Canadian Wheat Board's 76-year monopoly on the sale of wheat...
- 30 November 2011 Tie a light-blue ribbon round the court house tree (*)
- 28 November 2011 Chief Justice Bauman on legal funding cuts
Daylight Robbery |
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| Written by Chris Green |
| Monday, 15 March 2010 19:10 |
 So we all lost an hour’s sleep over the weekend. No big deal, right? Well consider if you were running a large manufacturing plant, or a mine, or even a police force, where your work force is paid by the hour, and works the graveyard shift: you just paid your entire work force 8 hours’ pay for seven hours’ work. Or consider the poor radio or TV station that makes its money by sell advertising by the minute. A whole hour of "inventory" just vanished. Clearly, there is a hidden, and often massive, cost associated with even something as innocuous as shifting to daylight-savings time. I'm currently reading a book called "Running Away to Sea", where George Fetherling recounts his exploits as a passenger on board a tramp steamer. He remembers crossing the international dateline, where not just an hour, but a whole day disappears on the westbound voyage, to the delight of the ship owner, and the dismay of the crew. Of course the crew get their revenge on the eastbound transit, with two days’ pay for one day’s work, when they cross that imaginary line in the ocean. Fetherling reports that ship captains go to great lengths to avoid crossing the International Date Line on a weekend, when crews get paid double time. At GreenWay, we have a senior paralegal who routinely logs on late at night to work, so we frequently joke about being the "Law firm that never sleeps". I sure hope she didn't work late this weekend; I'd hate to take advantage! |
