[NHCOLL-L:2721] Re: Collections managers question

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

Eric,

I'm not sure I coulda said it better myself!!

thanks!
greg
C&T
Yale Peabody Museum



At 05:46 PM 6/21/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Of course, I have noted with envy that the C and T's, by virtue of a 
>union, do get much better raises than us, but still, most C and T's I know 
>are frankly, a little insulted by that categorization, since many of them 
>are published scientists or legitimate experts in their respective field, 
>with their own  reputation.  How many admin assistants, lab techs, etc. 
>can walk into a museum in Europe or Australia and have name recognition, 
>such as the case with many of our museum assistants?  I think that is the 
>sort of thing you need to stress that the HR types may understand.  How 
>would HR types could be recognized outside the university, such as you 
>would probably be the world over (certainly based on your extensive 
>publication list)?

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