Creating Learning Communities
You may wish to review this book, Creating Learning Communities, on-line.To be published in hard copy early in the year 2000, http://www.futureworld.dk/ccl-llc/book.htm --
Re: A possibly useful Internet resource: Engineering Ethics Online Help-Line
The biggest ethics question of all will be if it is OK to nuke a city that has an instantly fatal incurable virus or bacteria going through it, as a means of sterilization. Currently TB in Russia and stapphicopae sp! in UK may be potential candidates, should they get much worse. Keachie A movie, actually several, have been done already on similar lines, and it is no joke. BTW, I've moved rural, but am I paranoid enough ? "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote: Yesterday, I ran across something that may be of use to some of us sometime (hopefully not, of course...). The Online Engineering Ethics website (Ethics Center for Engineering and Science) has long had a lot of valuable material, like the stories of the engineer who tried to prevent the Challenger disaster, and the engineer who, *after* he built the Citicorp building, realized it had the potential to collapse in high wind (the latter's story is more felicitous than the former's) http://onlineethics.org/ They have a new service: An Online Help-Line for engineers (I presume that would include people like myself who, even though I've never had an engineering course in school, am employed as a "software engineer"...). http://www.ONLINEETHICS.ORG/helpline/ I feel this is an important issue for science and technology, the study thereof, and both the present and future of work "Yours in discourse" \brad mccormick -- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA --- ![%THINK;[XML]] Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
FW: [Ananda] Lighten Up
Title: FW: [Ananda] Lighten Up -- -- From: M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ananda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ananda] Lighten Up Date: Thu, Nov 11, 1999, 5:08 AM DOWNSIZING HANDBOOK FOR EMPLOYEES As a result of the reduction of money budgeted for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel. Under this plan, older employees will be asked to go on early retirement, thus permitting the retention of the younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately. This program will be known as SLAP (Sever Late-Aged Personnel). Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company. SLAPPED employees can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place. This phase of the program is called SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers). All employees who have been SLAPPED or SCREWED may file an appeal with the upper management. This is called SHAFT (Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate. If an employee follows the above procedures, he/she will be entitled to Get HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel's Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lumpsum Assistance Payment) unless he/she already has AIDS (Additional Income From Dependents or Spouse). As HERPES and CLAP are considered benefit plans, any employee who has received HERPES or CLAP will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company. Management wishes to assure the younger employees who remain on board that the company will continue its policy of training employees through our Special High Intensity Training (SHIT). This company takes pride in the amount of SHIT our employees receive. We have given our employees more SHIT than any company in this area. If any employee feels they do not receive enough SHIT on the job, see your immediate supervisor. YOUR SUPERVISOR IS SPECIALLY TRAINED TO MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE ALL THE SHIT YOU CAN STAND.
