not to belittle or anything . . .

[Alma J Wetzker]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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

I don't disagree with, or miss, your point.  It is just inconceivable to me 
that an employee, at any level, is unaware of the periodic, and continuing, 
layoffs.

Skilled office workers, like any skilled workers, are wanted.  Their job 
prospects are much different than the technical work most of us are interested 
in.  Staying with SCO will not be the black mark on a resume, unless they 
apply to a technology company.  Still, if they are reasonably competent, they 
should be reading the glowing, neon red, writing on the wall.  Unlike 
manufacturing jobs, there is LOTS of warning, to everyone, that SCO is 
imploding.  Willfully ignoring it will not make it go away.  If the office 
help is going to stay, they should emulate their management, get the money up 
front.

     -- Alma