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- From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
- Subject: Re: Gays, the military and "privacy"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.083415.10736@netcom.com>
- Organization: Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
- References: <92357.38599.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <ljfbdgINN1gf@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Dec23.064014.16249@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:34:15 GMT
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- phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes: >
-
- >Ugh. I know the Michels. My personal, own and private opinion, based on
- >experiences I have seen and documented (there, that'll keep the libel
- >lawyers at bay I hope) is that they are lying scum. Perosnal direct
- >experience.
- >
- >But the point I want to make is the workings of freedom (and capitalism) in
- >this case.
- >
- >No charges have been filed, yet Michels has stepped down. As SCO wishes to
- >go public, it is not good for an IPO to have such shit going on. He was
- >most likely forced out.
-
- Wrong again. Charges have been filed with the State EEO office by two
- of the five. Civil lawsuits have also been filed. So what are you
- talking about?
-
- >his victims was a lawyer -- who said something about putting up with the shit
- >because she needed the job.
- >
- >What kind of an explanation is that? And what does it make that lawyer?
- >
-
- It's called reality. Said woman (don't know if she was a lawyer or a
- secretary, since the articles I read only mentioned secretaries) needed
- her job, just like she said.
-
- She probably had bills to pay and couldn't afford to fight this and
- risk being blackballed from the industry. If you had to feed your
- family and had a huge mortgage and couldn't afford to miss one
- paycheck (a very typical situation in Silicon Valley with our
- $300,000 homes), would you call on your manager if he played fast
- and loose with his ethics? Remember, if you blow the whistle, you'll
- probably lose your job, and a lawsuit will drag on for years.
- Meanwhile, who is going to feed your children when your paycheck
- goes away. Answer: that's probably why she put up with it.
-
- It happens, it's real, and what kind of person are you to blame
- the victim for this? I'd say at least half the women I've talked
- to have been sexually harassed in one form or another. One
- co-worker today told us that she was fired for not sleeping with
- her boss. She was 19. (this was 25 years ago)
- It's always happened; what's changed is finally the bastards who do
- this are getting punished.
-
-
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