<p>Actually the story was about the courts applying the punishment to the real perpetrators, management personal directly, for agregeous crimes committed by the company for profit motives. <br>
The story was presented as a method of changing bad corporate behavior and was not intended as a blanket condemnation of corporations. In general, I thinks corps are an OK entity. There are some details of corp existence like perpetual "life" and the normal insulation of protection surrounding the decision makers and their actions "on behalf" that provide freedoms not granted to ordinary people. In effect, corps are super-people in most cases and I think that _is_ wrong. <br>
There continue to be more cases where a corp saves money by outsourcing to a sub contractor who further subs and eventually the tail end worker is screwed. Such a situation is going on at Emory as I saw in the school paper last night after the ale meeting. Emory contracted with Sodexo for food services and Sodexo treats their employees like crap. When I worked at Emory the food service was run by Emory employees.<br>
Outsourcing is only cost effective if the original corp is sloppy on. one end or the outsource group is crappy cheap on staff. Otherwise outsourcing something like the food service should cost more due to profits of all the subs and extra management layers.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 15, 2010 9:13 PM, "Doug McNash" <<a href="mailto:dmcnash@charter.net">dmcnash@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050"><br><br>---- tom <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote: <br>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>> <br>> > You...</font></p>The point I think he was trying to make is that since some corporation somewhere (in some anecdotal story we can't verify) did something bad; therefore ALL for profit corporations are evil.<br>
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