Life Gets Wierd
sweet
Hello Seekers,
The world is aswirl with change, and it may be just my
sense of humor, but it really does seem as though the nature of the
strange is beginning to getting really wierd.
I intend this to be the first in a sporadic series of bits and pieces of
odd little stories that I pick up here and there, of things that catch my
attention. Wierd, with an odd, funny twist. Like the story I heard last
week on the local evening news about an ex-Pittsburgh cop who's in jail
for selling rigged video poker machines to a tribe of indians in
California...
At the very least, I hope this provides some amusement.
Anyway, this article appeared in the July 21, 1997 issue of InfoWorld, page
46 (http://www.infoworld.com).
NOVELL NOW FACES MERKEY SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT
by David Pendery
"In the latest blow to Novell, Timpanogas CEO and former Novell chief
scientist Jeff Merkey has filed a secual and general harassment complaint
against Novell and its senior vice president Denice Gibson. Merkey, who
left Novell in April to form Timpanogas, is embroiled in a lawsuit with
Novell over the later's Wolf Mountain clustering system, which Merkey
helped develop and Novell claims he stole for Timpanogas' clustering products.
In his deposition, Merkey wrote that Givson sexually harassed him three
times. He also wrote that he suffered retaliation - ignored by senior
officials - when he rebuffed her. The deposition also says that to
alleviate the problem, there was an attempt made within Novell to spin off
the Wolf Mountain group, but that Novell CEO Eric Schmidt nixed the plan.
Novell officials declined comment and Denice Gibson did not return
telephone calls to her office last week.
In a bizarre twist, it has emerged that Timpanogas may have plenty of funds
to fight the case thanks to a previously unpublicized activity: gold
prospecting. According to Merkey, the company is staking claims to several
sites in Utah, including one where a gold vein is 1.3 miles long and 3 feet
wide, and the value is "astronomical". Merkey said that Timpanogas will
stockpile the gold and use it to fund its defense against Novell's lawsuit."
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Maybe they should just forget the software and concentrate on the gold in
them thar hills...
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C---G Sweet Poly
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C "We had no time to do this right," the woman said...
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C---G -- WG, Idoru
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Julia Witwer
oh jeez. Poly et al, please disregard the previous ('nless yer
following the boredom thread)...
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Julia Witwer
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watch the birdie
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