No Amos, they would deport us to someplace we did not want to go.  Probably
Siberia just of show who is boss.  Personally I would like to be deport
someplace cold, just not Siberia.  Pam Marcum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amos Brooks [mailto:amosbrooks@comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:01 PM
> To: David A. Reynolds
> Cc: Histonet
> Subject: Re: negotiate wages
>
>
> Hi,
>     With the recent screw ups in Fed offices perhaps they will
> send the INS
> and deport you to someplace warm & sunny with nice beaches :-)
> Dare to dream
> Amos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David A. Reynolds" 
> To: "Keith, Cindy" 
> Cc: "'HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu'" 
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:59 PM
> Subject: RE: negotiate wages
>
>
> > $21.72.
> >
> > Yikes, here comes the FBI!
> >
> > Dave Reynolds (oops, I mean Smith)HT
> > Seattle, WA
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Keith, Cindy wrote:
> >
> > >  So why don't we do a survey here on the histonet?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Geoff McAuliffe
> > > To: Bruce Gapinski
> > > Cc: 'HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu'
> > > Sent: 6/19/02 5:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: negotiate wages
> > >
> > > Bruce Gapinski wrote:
> > >
> > > How do you negotiate your wages? Do you belong to a union? If so is
> > > there
> > > web access to the Histology wages?
> > > This appears to be the only "legal" way for us to negotiate with our
> > > employer. If I were to call you, and ask you what you make
> (as I'd done
> > > before for years) I could be fired for collusion. Don't bother, I've
> > > checked
> > > it out. Called Washington  DC and talked to the Anti-trust
> people, it's
> > > legal.
> > >
> > >     Rubbish!! Name the law, the exact statute please, that is
> violated.
> > > What case law supports this opinion? I think you talked to the wrong
> > > people in DC.
> > >     What you are saying is that no one in the country can ask anyone
> > > else in the same profession what they are paid and use that
> information
> > > to negotiate a higher salary. Since such a law could not be applied to
> > > one profession, it must apply to all. Or maybe there is a specific law
> > > that targets HTs and HTLs? The "Parade" magazine that comes with my
> > > Sunday paper has a salary survey of sorts each year, "what
> people make".
> > > So if I read that and use that information to negotiate
> higher pay, the
>
> > > person quoted and the author and the editor and the publisher
> and I are
> > > all guilty of collusion?
> > >     Of course, your employer is constantly (24 hours/day) monitoring
> > > your conversations with others in the profession to be sure that no
> > > "collusion" occurs. You meet a colleague from the lab across town at a
> > > local workshop. She tells you she got a raise but she can't
> tell you to
> > > what or how much because it is or might become collusion??
> > >     Could we have some common sense here? Collusion is often
> illegal but
> > > asking someone how much they make is NOT collusion.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > > --
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> > > Geoff McAuliffe, Ph.D.
> > > Neuroscience and Cell Biology
> > > Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
> > > 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854
> > > voice: (732)-235-4583; fax: -4029
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> > >
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