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Semiconductor Employees Suing IBM
An anonymous reader writes "According to the NYTimes's Bob Herbert, IBM has been killing its employees by exposure to dangerous chemicals - evidence is being offered by stricken employees that unusually
large numbers of men and women who worked for the giant computer corporation over
the past few decades have been dying prematurely."
I've been dying to get one as just as long as you've been dying to make them!
8==8 Bones 8==8
and I was always jealous of everyone with an "IBM" job. .
at least working in the pr0n industry I'll only go blind. .
Illness? Death? Of others...? It's a small price to pay when you need vacation home improvements or a new sport 'ute.
I went to news.google.com to search for the google partner link, but "IBM lawsuit" turned up all this shit about some company called SCO. Who are they, anyway? They say they've got some sort of Unix, but I've never seen or even heard of anyone who runs it.
Must be some two-bit company...wonder why they're getting so much press.
Please help metamoderate.
...Coincidence? I think not.
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
"All the news that's fit to fabricate".
Go into hardware, die from nasty production chemicals
Go into software, die from a Doritos or Mountain Dew overdose.
Either way, you're screwed
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
White mice exposed to flourscent lights die.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
"When I worked there OSHA (Sp.?) had done a lot to make things better."
You know you're on Slashdot when someone is unsure of the spelling of "OSHA".
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
After all, aren't ALL employees 'semiconductors'? My boss got across the 220VAC line once and didn't completely short it. The affect on *his* shorts was undesirable...
-- Don't call me "Sir," I increase entropy for a living!
When I hired in at a "technology company" on Day One they gave us the HF safety talk.
Not only does HF pass through your skin and attack the bones, you don't even feel it (other than as a wet spot) until it reaches the bones. By then you're in a whole lotta trouble, prompt pre-feeling treatment is necessary.
The treatment is to soak/rinse the affected area in a mix of ethanol and water.
They also had the anecdote about a guy who got some on his pants, and exposed a rather large area. He had to sit in a tub of ethanol/water. (which can infuse through the skin) After necessary steps, he was sent home drunk. I presume he wasn't chastised for being drunk on Company Time.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.