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- From: mrbulli@btoy1.rochester.NY.US (Mr. Bulli (private account))
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Kodak's Official Policy (formerly: Want to adopt)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195104.1987@btoy1.rochester.NY.US>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:51:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com>
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- On 25 Jan 93 21:48:21 GMT Irving_Wolfe (irving@Happy-Man.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- How many shares do you hold - one or even two?
-
- : 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.
-
- Really? What about criticizing in semi public (inside Kodak, but on general
- forums inside the company) or from outside the company (e.g. via an account
- on a public UNIX system etc.)? What about your own (rather nebulous
- sounding) company?
-
- : 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.
-
- Do I sense total censorship here? Excuse me, have you ever heard of personal
- rights (that outweigh corporate rights quite often)?
-
- You already have to sign a paper not to tell any company secrets (e.g. your
- boss's birthday) or conduct a business on the side that might hurt the
- company (e.g. lobbying for Fuji in Washington). :-)
-
- : 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).
-
- Thanks for the family - but isn't that what we had about 100 years ago,
- family business (why does that remind me of some Italian organizations)?
-
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- If your article represents a SOLID VALUE I'd rather stick with my standard
- savings account ...
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