From: <li...@li...> - 2001-05-10 23:46:12
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OK, this sounds innocuous enough, because there is some=20 distance, and the job functions/authorites are unrelated. For example: Mr. X, has a job as the bolt buyer for DrillHole=20 Inc.. He always specifies bolts from Threadless Cos. This=20 might be because Threadless Cos. makes better bolts, or because Threadless is 25% owned by Mr. X. (Did we mention that Threadless's biggest customer is DrillHole, and that it would go under if it weren't for DrillHole's juicy contracts?) --linas On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:49:36PM -0400, Wayne was heard to remark: > Hi Linas, > I know of many companys that have employees > that use there sevice for other work. For example > I have one company that has an employee that > has his own business doing lawn care. This > employee is a welder during the day for said > company. On weekend he does the out ground > care for this company. > Wayne >=20 > Linas Vepstas wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:23:21PM -0400, Wayne was heard to remark: > > > Hi Steve, > > > This book has good data model for a business. > > > One enity that is present is a "Party", a party is > > > a person or and organization. One then associates > > > a relationship to a "Party". This will help to reduce > > > data redundancy. For example, if I have an employee > > > that happens to be a vendor, then the party is in > > > my DB only once , as a person, and I only have to > > > establish the relationship this enity has. That > > > > Bad example. > > > > If you have employees who also act as vendors to you, > > you are putting yourself into a conflict of interest. > > If you're the sole owner, hey, that's up to you, but > > if you work for a larger company, that's grounds for > > getting yourself and your employee fired. If the > > employee is paying you kickbacks, I think that may > > even be a felony under rico. > > > > --linas > > > > -- > > Linas Vepstas -- li...@gn... -- http://www.gnumatic.com/ >=20 --=20 Linas Vepstas -- li...@gn... -- http://www.gnumatic.com/ |