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- From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
- Subject: Re: Kodak's Official Policy (formerly: Want to adopt)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com>
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- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <1993Jan23.040647.298@noao.edu> <1993Jan24.013653.20202@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.203827.24969@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan25.130932.10745@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:48:21 GMT
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- As a shareholder in Kodak, and hence (part of) the ultimate
- authority and employer at the company, I thought I should share my
- perspective on this.
-
- 1. Kodak should immediately fire any employee who criticizes it in
- public, except that the reporting of a crime or suspected crime to
- a law enforcement agency shall not constitute public criticism.
-
- 2. Any use of company property or resources for non-company
- purposes must be purely personal and not for a side-business,
- another affiliation (even if charitable or religious), etc., and
- additionally must be with permission. (Typical suitable examples
- are printing your family's annual holiday letter to friends and
- relatives and copying your personal tax return.) Violation is
- grounds for dismissal, but any penalty may be waived if the person
- involved can convince his supervisors either that the violation was
- unintentional due to a reasonable misunderstanding of the rules or
- that it's in the company's interest to keep him on because of his
- otherwise superior job performance and promise not to repeat it.
-
- 3. Such use is on an employees own time, not company-paid time.
-
- I hope Kodak will be generous in sharing these resources with the
- employees, because they are part of the Kodak family, but I also
- hope Kodak will be harsh on any abuse, and especially on anyone who
- erroneously thinks that disloyalty to the family is tolerable. It
- is not, except, as I said, in the case of an actual or suspected
- crime to law enforcement authorities (not the press).
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