a memory

As in many strikes, workers on the picket line talked to supporters not just about the disputed issues in the contract, but also about the many ways their job has gotten harder and more pressured in recent years. Call center workers complained about management pressure to limit phone calls to four minutes, which often makes genuine customer service impossible.

The above was cut-and-pasted from an article about the Verizon strike.

As I recall, I briefly used Verizon, but was pissed off because they would not let unused minutes carry over for more than ninety days. What a bunch of cheap-skates.

However, their flaws are more serious, which you can find out if you go the the below link, the source of the quotation above.

http://socialistworker.org/2011/08/15/strikers-see-red-at-verizon

"Striker's seeing red over Verizon's greed", Socialistworker.org; 15 August 2011

My memory?

As a high school teacher or a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, I often felt that the sheer number of students and/0r number of classes (subjects) I was being asked to teach made it impossible for me to do a good job. And, that was as frustrating as my low pay and other demanding/frustrating aspects of the job..... Indeed, trying to teach Philosophy at a university but lacking adequate resources....Or, for that matter, trying to do research without access to a research library.... Those are the sorts of things that do indeed make one feel despair and hopelessness....