Friday, October 6th, 1995
					10:30am

Dear God,

I am writing to you this morning from Carfax's venerable PC102 Compuadd
model 450 DX2, a 486 PC computer.  It is overcast outside as I sit in the
computer room in the Computer Room listening to the line printer idling
and the UPS humming and the hum of the VAX 4000 computer equipment behind
me to the left.

It is also a bit overcast inside as well.

There was a 9:30am conference call that I was asked to participate in which
has me vaguely uneasy.  I have heard of and read of various corporate 
maneuvers before, many of which seem to me to be pursued for the sake of the
allmighty buck, and for no other particular other sake than for that.  Our
friend Carol Clark experienced just such a thing herself when Orscheln was
purchased (I think in toto) by a some other company that had their own ac-
counting systems set up.  The result seemed to be that there was a summary
firing of many (if not most) accounting department employees within Orscheln,
including herself.

This morning I heard of just such a corporate maneuver from something of an
inside position, from someone who is in touch with the top echelon of many
corporations.  "Corporate downsizințatek.ę1
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