>
>At 01:44 PM 6/9/1999 +0100, Ian White, G3SEK wrote:
>>
>>Rich Measures wrote:
>>>
>>>>neither should one publicly attack
>>>>the intelligence, integrity, morals or honesty of one's opponent ...
>>>
>>>? Would you consider it bad form to state that alleged facts were
>>>contradicted by the personnel dept. of the former employer?
>>>
>>Yes, it's bad form, because:
>>
>>(a) Your assertion - which is contradicted by several other sources -
>>is based on a telephone conversation with some random person in HR who
>>had no incentive to give you strictly accurate information;
>>
>>but more importantly:
>>
>>(b) The whole point of your pursuit of Mr Miklos seems to be to smear
>>his personal integrity because his technical judgement differs from
>>yours.
>
>Moreover, even if the above weren't true, there may be a perfectly innocent
>explanation of the "discrepancy."
? which is why a sent a postcard to Mr. Miklos shortly thereafter
notifying him of the situation.
>Most companies of any size have separate
>salary "grades", that are distinct from functional titles. I don't know
>what an Engineer-B is in Varian's terminology, but it might be entirely
>consistent with a functional title of R&D Manager.
? Engineer B is the bottom grade.
> It wouldn't be
>surprising if the personnel people at Varian were told only to provide the
>salary "grade" in response to a "blind" telephone inquiry.
>
? As I recall the telephone inquiry,: I gave my name. I stated that a
debate was taking place on the Internet, that one of the participants
had a statement about a former Eimac/Varian employee, and that I would
like to check it out. She said go. I said that this participant claimed
that Mr. Miklos was the "R+D Engineering Manager". She said Miklos was
not, that he was an Engineer B and he was well-liked. .
- cheers, Pete
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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