Letter to my local politician.

Dear Sir,

I’d like to draw your attention to something that is happening in the corporate world, especially in the world of technology. It’s called blacklisting. Here is my (long) story as I best can tell it:

Late 2005 Sun Microsystems bought the company where I was employed as a senior computer hardware designer/engineer. Shortly afterwards, it was announced we would be redesigning our old and quickly aging product. This was welcome news to all of us as it had been more than six or seven years since we had last done a full design cycle for this product and it was getting to be about time for us to go and do it again.

Just a Little FYI...

Hello and welcome to my world (Otherwise known as hell...). A brief introduction: my name is John Becker and I am a former electrical...