From:	Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject:	Human barcodes
Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:54:13 +0100

In article <4.2.0.58.19990920220953.0095d450@*****.engin.umich.edu>,
Sommers <sommers@*****.umich.edu> writes
>Which brings up an interesting question. A lot is made in Shadowrun of the
>"corporate citizen" that basically belongs to the corp. They shop in the
>corp stores, play on the corp softball league, go to the corp doctors and
>are cremated in the corp funeral home. How can the corp lay people off when
>there is an unprofitable division? Doesn't that ET corp citizen thing have
>to flow both ways?

Surely does. A laid-off Ares citizen can't just wander out into another
country and start jobhunting: he's got no visa, no work permit, he's a
foreign national.

>One of the most common jobs pulled is the extraction. Why is it that you
>never hear about layoffs from the megacorps?

Maybe you get "forcibly redeployed". Maybe you just become an
"unperson".

>
>Sommers
>Insert witty quote here.
>

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Paul J. Adam