not to belittle or anything . . .

[Michael Hipp]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:

>> So its better to put your family out on the streets just so that you can
>> say you stood up to SCO?
>>
>  From there financials it looks like that could happen any time anyway.  
> If you  were looking for a job in technology, (where you have experience 
> and can get better pay) are you better off leaving SCO or getting laid 
> off by SCO?
> 
> After seeing "The Incredible Shrinking Company" for the past two years, 
> anyone with two brain cells to rub together understands that there is no 
> future there.  If they are not actively looking, their family will be on 
> the streets this summer anyway.  Only a matter of time.

I generally agree with all this for those employees that would be classified 
as "technical" or "white collar". But for the admin assistants, janitors, mail 
clerks and such it is a different story. They are generally not well equipped 
to evaluate the moral implications of their companies' actions - especially in 
something like this that is highly technical and legalistic in nature. It is 
okay to wish they were more aware of company financials and such but they 
generally aren't. And that's the world they live in. To them it's a job. And 
they're generally the last to find out that their management is incompetent or 
corrupt (or both in Darl's case). These "laborers" are largely victims.

I'm a bit sensitive to this since Bosch-Skil just announced they're closing 
their plant here (which is the largest in the county) and moving it to China. 
Five hundred and sixty people to be cut loose over a period of three years. I 
wouldn't quite equate this to what Darl And The Forty Thieves have done, but 
it's not without its parallels.

Michael