Rip wrote: > "Bruce Remick" <remick@cox.net> wrote in message > news:w0mmj.25724$3b7.25458@newsfe23.lga... >> >> "Liz_in_Calgary" <misnomer@shaw.ca> wrote in message >> news:r8pjp3teofdc88drk8vuri0bj0re0nop35@4ax.com... >>> lol... usenet isn't that important. >> >> Maybe not ten years ago, but today, if you're a person interviewing >> for a new job................ > > Couldn't let this one go! What could you possible say to a > prospective employer about usernet that would get you a job? People have lost jobs after being found in usenet saying things that offended the potential employer, or at least that's the story. Wonder how one would look that up on snopes? -- God help us all, The next President of the United States will be a liberal.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:49:17 -0600, clifto wrote: > People have lost jobs after being found in usenet saying things that offended > the potential employer, or at least that's the story. Wonder how one would > look that up on snopes? Possibly in the US where there does not seem to me any employment protection legislation and it is still "hire and fire" but just try that sort of thing in Europe! -- Terry