From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:07:16 +0800
To: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: SPL -- Suspicious Persons List
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Hallam-Baker wrote:

> Timothy C. May wrote:
> > Digitaltronics Corporation V.P of Human Relations: "Joe, thanks for coming
> > in this morning. I'm sure you're busy, so I'll make this as short as
> > possible. OK with you?"
> > Joseph Shlubsky, Programmer: "Uh, sure." <nervously>
> Yeah, thats why we Europeans have labour laws that prevent
> Digitaltronics
> from doing any such thing without getting sued from here to eternity.
> Pity you guys missed out on the idea of trades unions and think that
> employment is some kind of serfdom in which you loose all your rights
> the 
> day you sign up. If you hadn't sold your government to the cooprorations
> a while back you might have got out of the middle ages.
> I suspect that even under the weak as dishwater employment laws that
> you have in the US would provide ample opportunity to file a
> countersuit.

     Right now. But consider: If Joe _worked_ for the federal government in 
*certain* areas, or a government contractor in *certain* areas, this could 
happen. 

> When that type of thing happens, they don't give the reason, they do
> it behind closed doors. How do you fight that?


     Work for the competition, or start your own company. 


Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com