Well i have a short story about loyalty. I was working for a huge American company in NYC. I had gone to Europe to help out on a Data Comm. project. During my 2 weeks in Europe I hear the company is laying off people for the HQ office in NYC. I call my manager and ask him, was I one of them ? He said ' of course not' ...I get back and I was ...The good side of the story is that the European HQ put a bid in for me and we ( me and my wife) moved to Europe. It was temporary. I was a placeholder for another people of that countries nationality. I was then let go for a reason that was not valid. Politics ...I never forgot what happened, but I learned ...
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > Edward Gould wrote: > >> I have never trusted an employer since that time. I think all people >> should not trust their employers either. >> > > Define "trust". Certainly the feudal bond and /noblesse oblige/ are gone. > In return, we have more freedom to change employment at will and no employer > holds a résumé of 2-yr. short stays against us. The system is always > slanted against the working stiff; complaints survive from ancient > Mesopotamia > on that score! > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
