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In article <1992Apr14.184112.16690@news.eng.convex.com> jgardner@convex.com (John B. Gardner) writes:
>In article <6369@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard):
>>While Perot owned EDS, he prohibited his employees from having extramarital
>>sex and getting divorces, among other things.
>Really?  I'd very much like to see your source for this information.
>What you've said here is very serious, I'd like to know how the company
>spelled out that such activities would result in dismissal.

I don't have personal knowledge of this, but I have spoken to several people
who had interviewed with EDS during the Perot era and had decided that the
company was not for them. It was common knowledge in the MVS systems
programming arena. (That's what I do for a living.) EDS did loosen up quite a
bit after the GM buyout and Perot's departure, and a friend who worked for
them here in Houston until they shut down the Houston data center confirms
that such policies had been abolished.

>I would think that being fired (or denial of employment) for the reasons
>listed above would be a violation of civil rights, or at least grounds for
>a major lawsuit.

Remember that employment in Texas, at least, is purely at the will of the
employer and the employee, and the employer can terminate one's employment for
any cause at all (barring those proscribed by law, such as race
discrimination). There is no legally protected right to extramarital sex.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by a .sig virus.
   "While we liked developing Windows applications, we never inhaled." --
              Philippe Kahn, in Infoworld, 13 Apr 1992