The Ten O'Clock Appointment

"But you put your day in. You made your eight to five, maybe you read something at night or you tried to do personal things, but it wasn’t the same as taking work home and literally sitting at a desk til the wee hours, working through things. Because what was happening from, well, the early eighties forward was the work force was being reduced. And so, as I was picking up responsibilities, under the old system as you got advanced, say to a manager, what you were doing before, somebody else would take over. And you would manage those positions. What was happening was keeping the old responsibilities and keeping the new ones. So it just got heavier and heavier. And I don’t complain about it; I enjoy it. But there is a difference ‘cuz I could remember one time particularly, going home at about seven o’clock at night, and seeing one of the people who worked in my area who went home at five o’clock, driving in the opposite direction as I was just headed home, and thinking well uh, that’s just what comes with the job. Y’know, you have a longer day than everybody else. Consequently, you do get paid more. And you should. Provided that you’re doing the job. I’ve always been a strong believer in pay for performance."

- Quoted from an interview with Stephen Donches