Tidbits Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Through the Rain and Snow-Eight Times More news, this time from Gloria Borger of The Washington Star, on the results produced by the new non-political managers at the Post...
...Is that correct...
...W: Did you receive any kind of specialized training during that eight to 10 months, S: I don’t quite understand the question...
...The study confirms earlier Postal Inspection Service charges reported in The Star that the District’s main post office fraudulently weighed mail more than once to upgrade embarrassing productivity statistics...
...W: Mr...
...What Really Matters Is That It’s Fair Judicial activism no doubt has praiseworthy aspects, but they are not evident in this story told by Jacqueline Bolder in The Washington Star: In August 1974, a federal judge ruled that the District of Columbia had to bill 30,000 homeowners for a few pennies’ extra property tax, and send another 35,000 refunds of less than 50 cents each...
...Discussion S: Would you read the question...
...W: What was that...
...Shelton is an IBM employee being cross-examined, and Mr...
...The chronically underprivileged Department of Defense, for instance, now has 60,000 civilian employees making between $22,900 and $37,800 a year...
...W: Will you describe the nature and extent of your job responsibilities during the approximate two-year period that you were a Senior Associate Financial Analyst on the Group Staff at Data Processing Headquarters in Harrison...
...S: I don’t fully upderstand that...
...W: Well, during the period that you were a Senior Associate Financial Analyst, were S: Yes...
...Altogether, the District was owed about $1,000-so it reissued the bills...
...Shelton, after your first eight to 10 months on the job at IBM as an Associate S: Yes...
...Thinking Like a Lawyer (continued) We’ve been following with great enthusiasm the US...
...Walker is a Telex lawyer, Mr...
...Shelton: At that point I didn’t do a lot...
...Walker: During the period that you were an Associate Financial Analyst, will you tell us and describe to us the nature and extent of your job responsibilities...
...that first eight to 10 months...
...Read and weep: Mr...
...Goodfriend: I object to the form of the question...
...W: Senior Associate Financial Analyst...
...W: Well, you know what schooling is...
...W: How long did you remain a Senior Associate Financial Analyst...
...S: Senior Associate...
...you were there...
...You may answer if you can...
...W: Did you still work at Harrison...
...In the passage here, Mr...
...You may answer...
...Off the record...
...Nearly 8,000 of the people billed didn’t pay, perhaps because they didn’t take the bilk, which were as low as two cents each, seriously...
...Computer Decisions captured some of the lively flavor of the case when it reprinted some testimony from a similar, earlier marathon lawsuit, Telex v. IBM...
...S: Yes...
...Poor Little Policy Analysts Federal salaries are going up again in October, but only, of course, because there’s so much real need out there in the civil service...
...any schooling or training at IBM...
...The case should be with us at least into the 198Os, and lately the judge has been wondering out loud if he’ll survive it...
...Don’t write us-send your donations directly to the Pentagon...
...W: Okay...
...Financial Analyst, did you receive another job title...
...Attorneys for both parties agreed that only objections to the form of a question could be made...
...judgment at all, your best estimate...
...S: I don’t fully understand that one...
...Which cost $1,573...
...Did you work under the supervision of other people to a large extent during S: Yes...
...Do you have any $: Two years...
...W: I’m sorry...
...Did you receive any schooling at IBM during the first eight to 10 months S: Again, I-could you explain that just a little bit more...
...S: Yes...
...Tidbits and Outrages Through the Rain and Snow-Eight Times More news, this time from Gloria Borger of The Washington Star, on the results produced by the new non-political managers at the Post Office: “Mail trucks at the District’s post office have been on a merry-go-round, with some vehicles driven in circles through weighing devices as many as eight times to inflate mail volume and exaggerate productivity records as much as 110 per cent, according to an audit by the General Accounting Office...
...W: All right...
...Goodfriend is an IBM lawyer...
...S: Well, I don’t understand the question...
...v. IBM antitrust case, which keeps hundreds of lawyers terribly busy filing memoranda and documents and taking testimony that will cover every conceivable point of antitrust law...
...W: Would you describe the nature of your job responsibilities and the things that you G: I object to the form of the question...
...I cannot hear you...
Vol. 8 • September 1976 • No. 7
