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Company News: Blog
In praise of naked judges
03 September 2010
Like everybody else in the legal community I'm following with prurient interest the trials and tribulations of embattled associate chief justice of Manitoba, Lori Douglas, who was ousted by a disgruntled client of her husband's law firm. Nude photographs of her were posted, apparently without...
03 September 2010
Like everybody else in the legal community I'm following with prurient interest the trials and tribulations of embattled associate chief justice of Manitoba, Lori Douglas, who was ousted by a disgruntled client of her husband's law firm. Nude photographs of her were posted, apparently without...
- 07 August 2010 It's a dog's life
- 12 July 2010 Governor General Designate with legal background
Daylight Robbery |
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| Written by Christopher 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! |
