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Union leaders reacted to last week's revelation by filing charges with the NLRB. "Jobs are disappearing, and if American workers do not fight back, economically and politically, against Guess's blackmail, they are hapless victims," said UNITE campaign director David Young. U.S. law forbids companies from moving work abroad to avoid a labor-organizing campaign. UNITE is planning more legal action, boycott activities and protests on 300 college campuses, a key Guess market...
...competition for workers inspires some recruiters to try novel approaches. Cisco Systems, a computer networking company that is hiring employees at the rate of 1,200 a quarter, links its online recruitment site cisco.com/jobs/ to the home page for Dilbert, the hapless comic-strip geek Everyman, much loved in the Valley. And just last month San Francisco drivers were startled by a billboard that shouted in electronic letters: CISCO Systems. 600 JOBS AVAILABLE...
...tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented online by a Website run by Ohio State University. It offers, among other things, a guide for installing a rear warning light on a horse-drawn carriage...
Stumbling back to the right, I entered a waiting room with yet another empty desk, devoid in fact of all human life except for two other hapless patients sitting against the wall. I asked them if they knew what was up, and it turned out that they were also waiting to sign up to be seen, that there was a nurse who poked her head in every so often, and that I should just wait...
Richard Jewell seems like the most hapless individual you could find for a contest against such powerful antagonists as the FBI and the media. An overweight, single man in his 30s, he hasn't amounted to much in life. He belongs to the one demographic group--working-class, Southern white males--about whom society still seems to allow slurs, like "bubbas." He also seems to be one of those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played...