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- From: claude+@cs.cmu.edu (William Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Keywords: Coffee Break!
- Message-ID: <BsyK9q.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:22:37 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu> galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- >Yes, unions are _sometimes_ corrupt, wasteful, and/or counter-productive.
- >So are the government, banks, Fortune 500 companies, and computer industry
- >standards committees. Please allow working class people the only leverage
- >over their economic future that they have. At the end of the day they are
- >just like you, tired and a little bit older...
-
- Though generally less polite. My favorite story involves a paper
- session which began to run overtime, and would thus have impacted a
- scheduled AV coffee-break. Supposedly, the crew began flashing a
- message on the speaker's monitor: "Stop Talking".
-
- Yep, they sure showed us.
-
- -- will
-