Re: [Recentattendees] IETF 100, Singapore -- proposed path forward and request for input

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[e-mail]>]

Believe me, not a conjecture at all. I’ve been in that situation in Spain with one of our co-workers a few years ago.

Saludos,
Jordi


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De: ietf <[e-mail]> en nombre de Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>
Responder a: <[e-mail]>
Fecha: miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2016, 4:14
Para: <[e-mail]>
Asunto: Re: [Recentattendees] IETF 100, Singapore -- proposed path forward and request for input

>On 5/24/16 2:20 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>> I said this already a few messages ago. If instead of the IETF is a
>> business meeting that your boss tell you need to go (at least in my
>> country, and here comes what you said about different cultures), you
>> will have no choice: a) Go there b) You’re fired, maybe unless a
>> colleague can make it for you and your boss accept it But
>> definitively, you will not be able to argue in front of a court to
>> defend your job that you can’t go there because your family need to
>> go there with you and that country don’t allow it.
>
>Allow me to suggest that you know no such thing, and that
>you're presenting a strawman argument that may, in fact,
>be completely false.  US companies tend to come down on the
>side of supporting diversity and rejecting bigotry - take
>a look at the response to North Carolina's HB2.
>
>It's fine to make conjectures, but please couch it in
>terms of "I think this is what would happen."  I believe
>that in this case you'd be incorrect.
>
>Melinda
>
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