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- From: fran@Cadence.COM (Fran Peterson)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.163704.22027@Cadence.COM>
- Sender: Fran Peterson
- Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul22.235604.27104@exlog.com> <1992Jul25.222121.20426@socrates.umd.edu> <s6j1Hp4!q8@atlantis.psu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:37:04 GMT
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- In article <s6j1Hp4!q8@atlantis.psu.edu> hvozda@wilbur.psu.edu (Eric Hvozda) writes:
- >
- >This whole mess reminds me of an article I read about two companies in
- >Eastern PA. Company X had setup shop in a small town. The plant was the
- >town's livelyhood. Company X decided to pull out. A new company, company Y,
- >who is a competitor of X, decided to purchase the old plant. They offer jobs
- >to most of X's employees that X had layed-off.
- >
-
-
- I did not read the original posting, but from reading the reply above,
- I remembered an article I read in the newspaper several years ago. It
- involved a baker. Not just any baker. But the head baker for a very
- large English muffin bakery. In fact, as I recall the two companies
- were Thomas and Orwheat.
-
- I don't remember which one the baker worked for, but he gave notice
- we'll say to bakery A to go to work at bakery B. Bakery A said you
- can't do that. Trade secrets and all that. They sued bakery B and
- the baker. They went to court. Judge said the case was the first
- of it's kind and would have to have research done. And in the meantime
- while the research work was being done, bakery A was to continue to
- pay the baker his salary until the case was settled. The baker could
- not go to work for bakery B until the case was settled.
-
- It took one year before the case was settled as follows:
-
- Baker was allowed to go to work at bakery B
-
- Bakery A paid the baker to stay home for one year at his
- current salary.
-
- Bakery A had to pay the difference between their salary
- and the one bakery B was going to pay him.
-
- Bottom line was that a man cannot be kept from gainful employment if
- that's his only livelyhood.
-
- Also I had a contract that prohibited me from working for a competitor
- within a 50 mile radius. But I got out of it.
-
- In these times of such large employment numbers I think the person would
- have a good case.
-
- Who ever they are I wish them luck. While it's the big guys that fight
- in court. It's us little guys that get the shaft.
-
- Disclaimer: The above is totally my own recall of several years past,
- with a memory that's even even farther past!
-
- Fran Peterson
-
- F [:)
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