employment

[Jim Johnson]

> Any lawyer will *take* a case, no matter how absurd, as long as you have
the
> money for his services. Remember the *granny coffee spill* case? 

Yeah, we do. The "granny" was given coffee that was hot enough to require
skin grafts. At a drive-thru window, where the chances of spilling the
coffee are really high. Good thing she won.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
http://www.technotoys.com
info at technotoys.com




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On 9/23/00 at 4:02 PM Rob wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: KA4HJH <ka4hjh at gte.net>
>To: <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
>Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 12:17 AM
>Subject: Re: employment
>
>
>> >Well, FWIW, I know a guy who lied and said he had a BSEE, but he was a
>good
>> >enough tech that when they asked him the *money* questions during the
>> >interview he answered with authority so they never even bothered to
check
>> >his references.  ; ) He is now a program manager and no one except me
and
>a
>> >select few know about it.
>> >
>> >Honestly, too, after the fact the higher ups will not want to admit
they
>> >were duped and will prolly not attempt to follow-up on the guy. As long
>as
>> >you can do the job, I really think mosts execs do not care enough about
>it
>> >to go through the trouble.
>>
>> Heh, heh. This reminds me of the now infamous story of the guy who
>> scammed his way into one of the major medical universities. He was
>> rolling in research grants and cranking out the papers. Everyone was
>> thrilled until one of his assistants discovered that he was faking
>> results. It didn't take long for the whole thing to unravel except
>> for the problem of getting rid of the SOB. The "higher-ups" were of
>> course extremely embarrassed about the whole thing and he threatened
>> to sue, blah blah blah. Fortunately, someone had the sense to check
>> everything thoroughly. Seems he lied about his education on his job
>> application to the university. And the funny thing was that right
>> above his signature it had the usual statement about "falsifying any
>> of this information is grounds for instant dismissal".
>>
>> Even though this guy was full of it and perfectly capable of causing
>> everyone a lot of grief, he was out the door overnight, and I
>> seriously doubt any lawyer would touch that case with a ten foot pole.
>
>Any lawyer will *take* a case, no matter how absurd, as long as you have
the
>money for his services. Remember the *granny coffee spill* case? That was
>pure bunk, and at the time I even believe that the coffee had an expressed
>warning right on the cover, but with a good enough lawyer, you can win
>anything. Ask Sony about all the technology they supposedly *invented* and
>had *prior technology* on, but could not reproduce in any capacity or
figure
>out how to manufacture. Then, they sued the corporation to make them sell
>the stuff to them because Sony argued it *wasnt fair* that they could
>manufacture it while Sony could not.
>
>FWIW, there have been multiple cases of ppl in the medical field
>misrepresenting themselves. There was another case where a guy *bought* a
>medical degree from an offshore university, I think in Senegal. 5000
>dollars.. Worked as a doctor at some very well known hospitals for almost
20
>years before he was caught. The AMA is very tight about information
>regarding medical disciplinary actions and coddles many bad  or doctors of
>unknown origin. There was another instance where a guy just came right off
>of the street and perpetrated himself as a doctor and actually got the
job!
>No degree, nada. That buffoonery went on for years before anyone acted
upon
>it either, and even then, he did not face any criminal charges afterwards
>because of the loose wording of the paperwork and legalities.
>
>Honestly, in a lot of positions a good tech can imitate an engineer fairly
>well and no one would *ever* know the difference. And, even if they ever
>were found out, who cares? Not much the corporation can/will do either way
>because it would give them bad publicity and they do not want to risk it.
>Brand is above all else.
>
>For some reason, in the mere 30 years I have been on this planet, I have
had
>the displeasure of seeing nearly every scam in the book act itself out
>around me. I guess thats why I am so cynical.  :)) Sorry about that.
>
>
>
>Rob