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- From: bglazier@buffalo.asd.sgi.com (Bill Glazier)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.175303.4657@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:53:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: odin.1992Aug14.175303.4657
- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter) writes:
- |>
- |> Both at SigGraph and now here I have heard/read a number of anti-union
- |> slams. Yes, Chicago is a union town...it is also a town where working
- |> class people have a chance to earn a decent living and maybe, if they are
- |> careful and frugal, buy a home for their family someday.
-
- |> Yes, unions are _sometimes_ corrupt, wasteful, and/or counter-productive.
-
- Another interesting union story from SIGGRAPH. SGI gave away neat OpenGL t
- shirts at SIGGRAPH. I was saving a box of 70 shirts in our storage area in the
- booth to give to the engineering team back at headquarters. Late in the
- afternoon on the last day of the exhibition, I went back to check on this box,
- to make sure no one had opened it. The box was slashed open and 50 of the
- shirts had been taken.
-
- I was rather annoyed when I saw later in the day nearly every broomsweeper,
- electrician, and union worker in the hall wearing fresh, clean, new OpenGL t
- shirts.......
-
- They probably needed the shirts to save money for the down payments
- on their homes.
-