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)
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:51:04 GMT
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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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