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To: elmatador who wrote (9567)	9/17/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Ted Downs	Respond to of 21876

El, Hey, come on guys! Going like that you are going to say that he walks on water, multiply the bread and he cures people just by putting his hand on the heads of the sick. Apparently you haven't been watching "church TV" lately. They do it all the time on there. <ggg> Ted

To: elmatador who wrote (9567)	9/18/1999 2:04:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Lucent to require workers to be up to speed in technology Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News --HOLMDEL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies has asked 180 employees in its communications software group to voluntarily resign or face retraining, reassignment or possible dismissal, a spokesman said. Those employees have until Oct. 15 to make a decision whether to resign, spokesman Bill Price said. They would be given a severance package of 30 weeks pay plus additional benefits, he said. The company is working to make sure employee skills match the jobs Lucent needs as it begins to focus on new types of applications software and network technology, Price said. ``You want to have the right people with the right skills in the right jobs,' he said. If they don't accept the severance package, the employees could be retrained, reassigned elsewhere, or be given an opportunity to apply for other jobs in the company, Price said. If the company is not able to find a place for the employees, there might be some dismissals, the spokesman said. He called the process a ``normal procedure.' ``We have grown about 15,000 people in the last year because of hiring and our acquisitions,' Price said. ``We are clearly looking at our resources and slowing down the pace a bit to see how we are doing' with integrating the new employees into the company.' The communications software employees, developers and managers, are among the 6,000 Lucent workers in Holmdel. The unit has about 3,500 employees worldwide and develops software applications for telecommunications service providers. The company's decision came after 80 people were terminated in July because of poor performance.

To: elmatador who wrote (9567)	9/22/1999 5:22:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 21876

Contract Worker at Lucent Arrested for Taking `Proprietary' Documents By Ken Branson Posted on: 09/21/1999 An applications engineer from Texas, on temporary assignment at a Lucent Technologies Inc. (www.lucent.com) facility in Mount Olive Township, N.J., has been arrested for allegedly downloading proprietary information from Lucent's computer system. Police say Joseph L. Hoppe, 26, of Austin, Texas, was detained by Lucent's security people Friday, Sept. 17, when he tried to leave the company's building carrying printouts of "sensitive, proprietary information." Hoppe was employed by Intelligent Reasoning Systems Inc. (www.irsinc.com Austin, police say. A Lucent spokesman says he was training Lucent employees on hardware that his employer was installing at the facility. Lucent makes wireless systems in the facility, the spokesman says. According to police, Hoppe was charged with unlawfully accessing a computer system, an indictable offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison in New Jersey. A Municipal Court judge set bail at $20,000, and released Hoppe after he paid $2,000--a common practice in New Jersey courts. He is scheduled for arraignment in Municipal Court later this month. Chirstopher Linne of the Morris County, N.J., prosecutor's office says he doesn't know when, or whether, Hoppe's case will be referred to a grand jury. Linne says Hoppe's arrest may be the first for this offense in Morris County since the law was enacted in 1985. "This event may be unique in some ways," Linne says. "Most computer crime we deal with has to do with child pornography, terrorism, online stalking or hacking." Morris County is home to many high-technology and telecommunications installations. Lucent has several installations there, as do AT&T Corp. (www.att.comBell Atlantic Corp. (www.bellatlantic.com), Telcordia Technologies Inc. (www.telcordia.com) and many smaller firms. A spokesman for Lucent, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., declines to characterize the information Hoppe is accused of accessing unlawfully. He says Lucent doesn't have a large problem with such intrusions, and that Lucent's security staff is ever on watch for them. Hoppe, the spokesman says, was in Mount Olive for about three days before being detained and arrested. A spokesman at Intelligent Reasoning Systems declines to confirm that Hoppe is, or was, an employee. Intelligent Reasoning Systems produces and installs automated optical inspection systems.