Re: Citibank Spyware Tracking Your Online Banking now Mandatory

From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 04/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:41:58 -0400

Mich wrote:
> "Tony Lawrence" <foo@pcunix.com> wrote in message
> news:VJydnbwHlOhY7PPfRVn-tA@comcast.com...
>
>>David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>>>From: "Mich" <Mich8hb@netscape.net>
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>>>
>>>| I can respect that.
>>>| That is why I'm self employed, just can't keep it to myself sometimes.
>>>|
>>>| Mich...
>>>|
>>>
>>>I was employed by Lockheed Martin IT. However, when the contract that I
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> had worked under
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>>>(for more than 12 years) was awarded to another company, Lockheed Martin
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> laid-off all those
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>>>that worked under that contract, 3 business days later.
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, it's funny but people think that they have "security" working for
>>someone else. The only true security is working for yourself:
>>http://www.aplawrence.com/Opinion/employ.html
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>>
>>--
>>Tony Lawrence
>>Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: http://aplawrence.com
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>
> Let me add to that... Banks always want to lend to someone "employed" before
> the self employed, never thinking this person can get fired tomorrow..
>
> Mich...
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>

Well, that may be true if you've just started self employment - banks
tend to look at that more as "self employed while looking for a real
job". But after a few years at it, the banks accept that you really are
working for yourself.

But your point is correct: the banks don't usually seem to care about
the possibilities of layoffs or restructuring. 

-- 
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X  resources: http://aplawrence.com