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HARRIS MILLER ALERT!!!


Someone wrote a fantastic editorial calling Harris Miller out on his idiotic statements about e-voting machines.

posted by gmminks
8/24/2004
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Even though a S FL county admits they lost data [and thus cannot recount] election data from the governor's race in 2002, Harris Miller says “We oppose the idea of a voter-verified paper trail,”

He also claims "Introducing paper into the mix, he says, defeats the improved efficiency and reliability e-voting promises. “There was never a golden age when paper ballots were accurately counted,”

posted by gmminks
7/30/2004
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"ITAA president Harris Miller, who will be in India in October in connection with a Nasscom summit, has expressed an interest to visit Kolkata......His (Miller's) views are taken seriously by major US IT firms and so we are keen to make a good impression"

posted by gmminks
7/25/2004
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"aper trails can be an unnecessary expense for cash-strapped local governments.

"The people actually on the firing line . . . every one of them hates the idea," Miller said. "They just see their lives becoming miserable."


screw democracy, it's too damn expensive! Nice to know that the IT Association of America is out there looking out for Americans [right]

posted by gmminks

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"When Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense announced their RFID intentions, it changed the whole dynamic of the marketplace," Harris Miller, president of the ITAA, said during a break at the forum, held Tuesday at the J.W. Marriott in the District's downtown. "Even though we are still in the early days, we want to get out in front. People are so sensitive to privacy."

posted by gmminks
6/17/2004
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Friday December 21, 2007


No longer updating this blog


So it should be pretty obvious I am no longer updating this blog. For those of you who wondered, I had a job lined up when I was laid off back in '06. It was basically the best thing that could have happened to me. I still think outsourcing just to flatten the world is bad for everyone involved. I buy into the wikinomics way of thinking, that our industry shouldn't commoditize our skills. We should be reaching out and collaborating globally, not trying to flatten the world's culture into a homogenous bland working machine. I am sure I will be talking about this on my other blog, I still post about displaced techie topis there. I will leave displacedtechies up for history's sake, because I am proud of what we tried to do.

Friday December 21, 2006
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Friday June 30, 2006


Laid Off again


Yesterday I was laid off again. In the wrong group during a re-org, basically. So, if you are in my local area and have opportunities...shoot them my way.


The one thing I do want to say is that as workers, we all need to work at making personal connections in our workplace. I truly believe that if workers connected with each other...no matter where you are from....we could start standing up when we are treated like cattle.


Think about it, most IT workers no longer expect to be at a job for a prolonged period of time. However, all of us want that security. We want to know we have money to have shelter and food. That is why we allow our employers to treat us like cattle, driving and prodding us along. We bite our tongues and refuse to make waves when we see injustices occur (even if they are happening to ourselves!) because we don't want to be the troublemaker...the crazy cow that they get rid off first.


This point was driven home to me yesterday while I was cleaning out my cube. My entire group, and several other work colleagues, were pretty sure what my 4:00 meeting would be about. So, everyone came to talk to me as I packed up. The HR rep shooed them away, telling them they could NOT talk to me. Then she told me that I could not talk to them, not even to say goodbye!


So, even though I was let go from no fault of my own, I had to behave as if I had no connection to these people at all. As if now, since I was being herded down a different shoot, I would forget all about the rest of the herd.


Everyone mobbed me when I was leaving and hugged me and said goodbye, which made me proud and happy.


When we make these personal connections, and create communities in our workplaces, it makes it harder for management to treat us like pawns. Their goal is to redeploy their "resources" (us) however they see fit, even if that means chucking them. They want a workforce that will work whenever (and wherever) they say, without so much as a "moo". If we build communities at work, it makes it harder for them to do that.


So, no matter what your nationality, get to know the people you work with. Go to lunch with them. Ask how their families are. Understand how being on a visa affects them. Understand how being an American worker in today's IT world affects them. Most of all, stop allowing employers to treat us as cattle.
06:30 am
Friday June 30, 2006
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