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| 1702.1 | Playing Devil's Advocate.... | BOOKIE::OBRIEN | | Fri Dec 20 1991 11:09 | 7 |
| Why does the company view this as a threat? Some of the layoffs were
handled awkwardly, at best. If this is an opportunity to downsize
without committing company resources, I would think that some
managers might welcome this "scam" as a way to hit some of their
metrics. If they can't do it by producing, maybe they can cut costs.
Brian
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| 1702.2 | | COOKIE::LENNARD | Rush Limbaugh, I Luv Ya Guy | Fri Dec 20 1991 11:25 | 6 |
| .1 -- are you sure you are responding in the right file??
This annual idiocy about the terminally ill brat is really getting
nauseating. It's been going on for at least 10 years that I know of.
Just ignore such requests.
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| 1702.3 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Dec 20 1991 11:33 | 5 |
| I've never heard the business card one before.
The Christmas card record for the terminally-ill kid, while not a scam,
was over years ago and the requests from the principals involved are to
stop.
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| 1702.4 | good luck! | SAHQ::HUNTER | | Fri Dec 20 1991 13:19 | 2 |
| During these times, I am surprised that a recruiter has to resort to
these tactics in order to find candidates!
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| 1702.5 | | GRANMA::MWANNEMACHER | Merry Jimble | Sun Dec 22 1991 11:29 | 6 |
| RE: .2 <This annual idiocy about the TERMINALLY ILL BRAT>
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Rich, I think you need a vacationor maybe something else.
Mike
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| 1702.6 | | HOO78C::ANDERSON | Homo sapiens non urinat in ventum. | Mon Dec 23 1991 05:13 | 13 |
| OK Here's what is happening. The terminally ill child is still alive
and made it to the Guinness Book of Records as the most terminally ill
child who got the greatest number of cards.
Somehow it got changed and it is currently making the rounds as a chain
letter begging business cards. The child does not collect business
cards and they are burnt on arrival. This information may be confirmed
by a call to the office of the Guinness Book of Records.
Personally I suspect the postal services to be at the root of it as
they are the only ones making any money on it.
Jamie.
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| 1702.7 | | ASICS::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Mon Dec 23 1991 19:33 | 4 |
| By the way, Craig Shergold is still very ill, but alive this Xmas at
least.
/a
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| 1702.8 | My cut at why recruiters are a threat... | MAY21::PSMITH | Peter H. Smith,MLO5-5/E71,223-4663,ESB | Mon Dec 30 1991 09:41 | 15 |
| .1> Why does the company view this as a threat?
If I was a manager facing tough decisions about who stays and who goes,
I would want to make my decisions under the assumption that everyone
planned on staying...
My decisions would basically be "the productive ones stay, the non-
productive ones go" (realizing of course that good/bad productivity
may depend on skill matches, not "worthiness"). Of course there's the
hard part of deciding how much each person is contributing, which is
why I'm not a manager...
I wouldn't appreciate having some recruiter making basically the
opposite choice at the same time -- "the good ones leave Digital to
go to X, the bad ones don't get called back"...
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| 1702.9 | | STAR::BANKS | A full service pain in the backside | Mon Dec 30 1991 16:58 | 11 |
| I'm sure .8 didn't mean it this way, but as a non-manager (read "peon") the way
I read it was:
Managers want to have all the choice in the decision of who stays and who
leaves, and having the employees decide for themselves, with or without external
encouragement (head hunters) just threatens the manager's feelings of control.
If DEC wants to lose people, then DEC's going to have to face up to the fact
that they aren't the only ones deciding who's going to go. The employees are
also allowed to decide for themselves. It just isn't reasonable to expect
otherwise.
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| 1702.10 | writing between the lines :-) | MAY21::PSMITH | Peter H. Smith,MLO5-5/E71,223-4663,ESB | Tue Dec 31 1991 12:46 | 3 |
| > I'm sure .8 didn't mean it this way...
Don't be so sure... :-)
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