<HTML> Kent I apologize for interpreting your comments not the way you meant them. I certainly do not mean any disrespect for what you wrote. As a minor defense, if I made comments that did not seem to ralay what you meant, then perhaps the comments were made in such a way so that that is how I interpreted them. But then, I do have a habit of misinterpreting comments, so I guess it is my fault. In a message dated 4/28/02 5:34:58 PM !!!First Boot!!!, kswafford@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My comment was in regard to how the PTG as an organization should do promotion on behalf of its members. There is a clear problem among our members who are employed part-time in situations where the workload would actually call for full-time employment. And worse of course, there is also a problem of techs who are nominally employed full time but paid only part-time wages and expected to make up the difference in private business. This problem deserves PTG organizational attention, IMO. </BLOCKQUOTE> This is where I have a problem with the workload formula the CAUT committee is promoting. It is assuming a certain number of pianos to be the workload of a full time technician. It started out at 60, but then revised the number from 40 up to 80, depending on the kind of institution. An administrator who might not be aware of how much work is involved in taking care of pianos in a school setting, might not realize the amount of time is required to do so. An administrator is going to look at a full time technician in the private sector, and see that person with a customer base of 500 - 2000. How can an administrator justify a full time technician with only 60 - 100 pianos, when a "full time technician" can take care of 2000 pianos? This is why the formula I have devised uses hours per week as a basis. If the PTG can show, through the use of the formula, that taking care of 60 - 80 pianos, including the repairs, rebuilding, and administrative duties, is a 35 - 40 hour a week job, then perhaps the administrator will realize that the tech won't have time to supplement a part time salary to take care of those pianos. Wim </HTML>