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Message no. 1
From: Pete Wilson <piatro@**********.COM>
Subject: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:34:43 -0600
How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his own corp?

Possible motives could be interdepartment rivalries (trying to insure the
next promotion), coverinig up failures or delays, or checking security
(ever seen "Sneakers").



Piatro
Message no. 2
From: Matt Penn <steelclaw@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 00:30:24 -0400
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:34:43 -0600 Pete Wilson <piatro@**********.COM>
writes:
>How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his
>own corp?
>
>Possible motives could be interdepartment rivalries (trying to insure
>the
>next promotion), coverinig up failures or delays, or checking security
>(ever seen "Sneakers").

Actually, that was this week's session with my group. Johnson hired us
to break into one of Ares' subdivision offices and datasnatch a new
prototype (turned out to be nothing more than a diagram for the '59 Dodge
Scoot). Supposedly, it was Damien's birthday and most of the employees
were off, including corpsec. Apparently, the Johnson's supervisors
wanted to test out the latest graduates from Knight Errant, armed with
some lovely prototypes of their own. Imagine how hard we laughed.

-Matt, Large Ork
"Oh, what the hell. Blow his head off."

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Message no. 3
From: K is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:31:32 EDT
In a message dated 7/3/98 9:27:32 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
piatro@**********.COM writes:

> How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his own
corp?
>
> Possible motives could be interdepartment rivalries (trying to insure the
> next promotion), coverinig up failures or delays, or checking security
> (ever seen "Sneakers").
>
Actually, within the Corporate Shadowfiles sourcebooks, under the corporate
group of "Shiawase" and "Fuchi" you could have some really impressive
concepts
to this end.

-K
Message no. 4
From: Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE>
Subject: Re: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:40:12 +0000
and thus did K is the Symbol speak on 4 Jul 98 at 1:31:


> > How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his own
> corp?

> Actually, within the Corporate Shadowfiles sourcebooks, under the corporate
> group of "Shiawase" and "Fuchi" you could have some really
impressive concepts
> to this end.

Or Blood in the Boardroom for that matter. The in-corp fighting gets
truely nasty there.


Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie
Message no. 5
From: Mike Bobroff <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:09:49 EDT
In a message dated 7/4/98 2:27:30 AM !!!First Boot!!!, piatro@**********.COM
writes:

> How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his own
corp?
>
> Possible motives could be interdepartment rivalries (trying to insure the
> next promotion), coverinig up failures or delays, or checking security
> (ever seen "Sneakers").

Intra-divisional shadowruns (or the like) between one or more divisions is
something common to all of the corps, as different people compete for funding
and research information, personal vendettas, but, perhaps the biggest reason
of all for this occuring ... people with large egos who do not want someone
stomping on their toes and possibly ruining their cushy little job ...

And there is some corp, Saedder Kruppe, which I believe is the one where this
happens the most, seeing as Fuchi used to rank first before they dissipated
into nothingness.

-Mike
Message no. 6
From: Mike Bobroff <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Interdepartment rivalry
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:11:22 EDT
In a message dated 7/4/98 4:32:20 AM !!!First Boot!!!, steelclaw@****.COM
writes:

> >How often are you seeing shadowrunns set up by a Mr. J. against his
> >own corp?
> >
> >Possible motives could be interdepartment rivalries (trying to insure
> >the
> >next promotion), coverinig up failures or delays, or checking security
> >(ever seen "Sneakers").
>
> Actually, that was this week's session with my group. Johnson hired us
> to break into one of Ares' subdivision offices and datasnatch a new
> prototype (turned out to be nothing more than a diagram for the '59 Dodge
> Scoot). Supposedly, it was Damien's birthday and most of the employees
> were off, including corpsec. Apparently, the Johnson's supervisors
> wanted to test out the latest graduates from Knight Errant, armed with
> some lovely prototypes of their own. Imagine how hard we laughed.
>

Then there is always the popcorn run ... tp'ing someone's office completely on
April Fool's Day ...

-Mike

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