From: "Dan Fake" Newsgroups: alt.politics,alt.politics.economics,soc.rights.human,alt.society.civil-liberty References: <50Qs6.3185$9J5.258190@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <3AB79B90.77147711@kellogg.northwestern.eud> <3AB7BB31.1BCC7D6B@kellogg.northwestern.eud> Subject: Re: Who Gets Laid Off? The Abels ... Organization: **** charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:38:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.224.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 985124329 12.73.224.113 (Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:38:49 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:38:49 GMT Xref: newsread2.funet.fi alt.politics:286280 alt.politics.economics:62856 soc.rights.human:20033 alt.society.civil-liberty:7204 CJS wrote in message <3AB7BB31.1BCC7D6B@kellogg.northwestern.eud>... >X-No-Archive: Yes > >Dan Fake wrote: >> >> CJS wrote in message <3AB79B90.77147711@kellogg.northwestern.eud>... >> >X-No-Archive: Yes >> > >> >Dan Fake wrote: >> >> >> >> ... For those who hide behind naive notions >> >> that laid off folks 'deserve what they get' >> >> or 'must be sacrificed for the good of the >> >> holy corporation' ... >> > >> >Um, Dan, take this for what it's worth. You seem to have >> >gone from denial to anger here. You really might want to >> >find someone to talk to in real life. >> >> Actually, reality is something which folks such >> as yourself seem to be in denial of. Sad, really, >> the support for Cains you seem to be providing. > >Well, I guess that's what I get for trying to be a bit >supportive. > >Yes, Dan, people do play political games. That's a sad fact >of life, and it's no different in work than in play (e.g. >social climbers). However, the authors simplify this far >too much, and you completely miss out the fact that the >"Cains" are usually discovered and discarded. > >Maybe it makes you feel better to claim victim status; that >is, your problems were not caused by you but by some >faceless "Cains" who stabbed you in the back. Chances are >that this isn't true. Until you figure out why you were let >go, you haven't learned from the experience; it is you are >are in denial of reality. Rather a silly discourse, here, as you're claiming knowledge of an event only I and those directly involved have knowledge of. If you wish to dump on the laid off, that speaks more of your insensi- tivity and insecurity than it does of the realities of life as mentioned by the insightful writers of the book in question. http://home.att.net/~danfake -Dan Fake, FREELOVER #1