Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!KESTREL.ARPA!king From: king@KESTREL.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Welfare, crime, business, unions, and freedom (long) Message-ID: <12228199712.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 17:07:12 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12228199712.23.MCGREW Posted: Mon Aug 4 17:07:12 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Aug-86 23:22:48 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: king@kestrel.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 42 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu Date: Thu, 24 Jul 86 10:04:13 pdt From: Steve Walton . . . It really is possible to be a victim of circumstance. I admire your success since your release from prison; it doesn't change the fact that there are people who have applied for more than 100 jobs, receiving one interview and no job, and have given up looking. (Actual name of this person can be found on the front page of the July 21 LA Times, which I don't have handy at the moment.) Does seem a bit rough. Er, why did he quit looking? What does he do instead? . . . Business and employees: The relationship between an *individual* employer and employee is not symmetrical. Employers have, in the past, not only fired employees but tagged them as "troublemakers," thus preventing them from getting jobs anywhere else. Employees have, in the past (and present), not only resigned their positions but tagged their former employees as troublemakers. As an example, messages circulated around the net a while ago that a company named EDS was miserable to work for. If you don't have time to watch TV (I don't own one either), I'm surprised you have time to read, or write, diatribes like this one. I have time to do anything that takes less than 168 hours per week. When I, and I presume other people, say "I don't have time to do X", I macroexpand it to "There exist 168 hours of activity per week to which I give higher priority than X". Steve -dick -------