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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.032509.18299@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <BzvzoM.Fn3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec27.001454.8855@netcom.com> <BzxFpK.Dty@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:25:09 GMT
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- In article <BzxFpK.Dty@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>In article <BzvzoM.Fn3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >>>payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>>>In many cases, these policies are a matter of public record. For
- >>>>>>example, in the case of the systems analyst, she was explicitly
- >>>>>>told by her contact at the employment agency that Sun would not
- >>>>>>hire her.
- >>>
- >>>>Just for the record, it is my understanding that Sun is not hiring
- >>>>-any- temporaries, at all, and this has been the policy for the last
- >>>>several years. This is unqualified, regardless of sex, height, or
- >>>>planet of origin, they will not hire any temps as permanant.
- >>>
- >>>>Even reading your text, I cannot see any implication of discrimination.
- >>>
- >>>The woman was considered for a permanent position at Sun; and she was
- >>>explicitly told, that people of a nonstandard weight would not be
- >>>considered for such positions.
- >>>
- >>>Yes, I think that's discrimination...
- >>>
- >
- >>She was told this by the agency, not by Sun. And if it was within the
- >>last several years, Sun has not been hiring temps. And just for the
- >>record, I know an engineer at Sun who would probably not fit in the
- >>passenger seat of my Honda Civic. If this were company policy, he
- >>could not be working there.
- >
- >>Rich
- >>payner@netcom.com
- >
- >Once again, I don't know when this incident happened; and the woman was
- >not being considered as a temp.
-
- There was another post where a temp-permanant hire (at sun) was brought up,
- it seems that I connected the two incorrectly. Please accept my apology.
- But you might have mentioned it a bit sooner.
-
- >Are you curious enough for me to find out details?
-
- There is no way I could verify or check anything. But if you want to
- check, lets have a look.
-
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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