Curt Fischer wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>> Curt Fischer wrote:
>>> Where I worked it was against company policy to take most kinds of
>>> work
>>> home.
>>
>> Did you work for a defense contractor such as Lockheed Martin?
>
> Nope.  The very, very private sector IBM Corp.  I would say that aside
> from HR related documents, at least 50%, probably more like 80%, of
> the papers I saw all had "IBM Confidential" written on them and were
> not to removed from the premesis.

I see. When I worked at Lockheed Martin, I once spent a day doing 2nd level
support at the Electronics and Missiles plant (I worked at LM Enterprise
Information Systems across town). There were many mini-offices of several
person "teams" and each mini-office was separated from the common area by a
door locked by combination. To get inside to work on their PCs, I had to
call in from a telephone mounted next to the door.

Then there was Building N aka The Black Hole. It was like Willy Wonka's
factor. It seemed that nobody ever came in and nobody ever came out. No one
even knew what sort of stuff went on in there. I once had the opportunity to
talk with someone who worked in Building N over the phone. When I asked, he
just said they worked on "a lot of fun stuff" I wonder if that means they
were in there making margaritas with the document shredder like in "The
Falcon and The Snowman"

>>>> Teaching can not be beat for a job guarantee. It is almost
>>>> impossible to fire a teacher and certainly not because of bad
>>>> performance. In the private sector it is not unusual to be out of a
>>>> job because of commercial considerations.
>>>
>>> This part I agree more with.  When I was in high school we had one
>>> teacher who wound up in a torid affair with a very beautiful, and
>>> very 17, student of his.  She was named Kreis.  Shortly after it
>>> became
>>> common to walk past this guy in the hallway and say "Hey, Mr. X, do
>>> you
>>> need an iron?  'Cause you got a Kreis in your pants...", he got
>>> fired.
>>>
>>> Later in the local papers it became apparent that the police and the
>>> school had known about his affair for some months.  But it was not
>>> until
>>> it became common knowledge among the student body that they had to
>>> fire
>>> him.
>>
>> Ooh! Perfect example of the purpose of unions.
>>
>> P.S. Do you have a jpeg of Kreis? How torrid was the affair? Tell us
>> some of the stories!
>
> My only photos are in my high school yearbook which is, alas,
> thousands
> of km away.

Call home and have them mail it to you. Or, do they know how to use a
scanner?

> The affair was originally discovered when the girl fell
> into depression and her parents read her diary.  Turned out she had
> anticipated the teacher ditching his wife (the school nurse!) and
> being
> with her forever, which wasn't happening.  I don't know many of the
> details, but I seem to recall that some of the rendezvouses were on
> school grounds.  I think the tennis bleachers.

Ooh! Scandalous!

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika
flying side by side."
- Julian Bond, chairman of the nonpartisan NAACP, on the GOP