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Bill Harvey <wharvey@wans.net> 1999-11-22 04:26:21
>I think you have hit on a key point. What do we call those
>people in the organization? Staff, employee, associate, members,
>learners, or what?

In german, the employer is "Arbeitgeber" and employee is "Arbeitnehmer".
Arbeit is work, geben is to give and nehmen is to take. So the employer
gives work to the employee. Funny, isn't it? I always thought it should be
the other way round.

Liebe Gruesse,

Winfried

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