Re: Gotta love Joyce..

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 15 Mar 99,  Bill O'Neill wrote:

> A very telling bit is that AFTER Joyce's initial battle with cancer in
> 1979 , WBZ TV hires her and provides her with "retroactive health
> insurance to cover her surgery, and promoted her to arts reporter."
> This line stopped me short and made me wonder how many businesses today
> would go that extra mile for an employee, particularly in this industry
> where maximum hours - short of full-time benefits - seems to be the
> rule, not the exception.

I think that employers generally were more generous about things like 
that in 1979.  For one thing, the cost of health insurance hadn't gone up 
to crisis levels in 1979.

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