eMail: Capital offense?

From: wpe101_at_banet.net <(wpe101_at_banet.net)>
Date: Mon Nov 29 18:09:58 1999

I've done some searching on the net, with no results. If anyone can provide
"something
concrete" on this, I would be very interested. If you'd prefer to keep bandwidth
down,
please email me at wpe101_at_banet.net.


Thanks,


Will


Dave McGuire wrote:

> Yeah really...unemployment isn't much of a problem nowadays...at least not in
> this business.
>
> I think nobody in their right mind would work for such a company. I
> certainly wouldn't.
>
> -Dave McGuire
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
> >Why would you want to work for someone who really wanted to get rid of
> >you? Being fired from a place like that would be a blessing...
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Nick Oliviero wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry for going a bit off-topic here. I normally have no qualm about
> >> including my company email in my postings, it has resulted in some
> >> interesting and useful dialogue since the topic *resembles* my work. But
> >> a story that aired here in Houston yesterday gave me some pause to
> >> think. It told of 3 workers at a midwest company who were terminated for
> >> ........ RECEIVING !! ... non-work-related email.
> >>
> >> As usual with radio news, few details were provided. Was it spam? Was it
> >> blatant personal mail? I wonder if anyone else has run across this
> >> story. While I don't believe that my own company would be this
> >> arbitrary, one has to wonder ..... if your employer Really wanted to get
> >> rid of you .......
> >>
> >> Nick Oliviero
> >>
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