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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Did I blow it?  (Tektronix take note)
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 10:29:50 EST
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> 	All seem to assume that Tek approved this Tek employee's threat.
> 	[...] Like, for sure, it's  official company policy everytime YOU
> 	post to the net, or pick up your phone, right?

From the original:
>	[...] local Tektronix sales rep who (1) offered to sell [...] and
>	(2) informed me that her higher-ups at Tek were not at all pleased

	There is a big difference between my posting an article to the net
and what happened here.  From what I can see, a Tektronix employee IN THE
COURSE OF CONDUCTING OFFICIAL COMPANY BUSINESS (i.e. making a sales call)
made a comment which certainly sounds like it was implying an official
company opinion.  To my (not legally trained) mind, a company is responsible
for the actions of their employees while they are transacting company
business, which seems to be the case here.

	When I post an article about a subject which is not related to what
my company does (biological research) I don't make any effort to imply that
my opinions reflect any official company opinions, and, in general, don't
give the reader any reason to assume that this is the case.

	A while ago I posted a "position available" ad to net.jobs; that
was a different story.  At the time we were looking to hire someone and I
used the net to let people know that.  That was clearly an example of me
acting as an official spokesperson for my employer and it would have been
quite reasonable for a reader to assume that.
-- 
allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute