I wish to thank Kendall Vance for a very lucid explanation of the murky
ethical issues involved in the employment interview saga in which the
interviewer contacted the applicant's former boss against the latter's
wishes and received unfavorable information.  The job applicant was indeed
fortunate to escape employment with an administration prone to
questionable behavior.  It helps to remember that what goes around, comes
around.  I would imagine that the interviewer had problems with staff
loyalty....

Been there,

Diane M. Lewis, Serial Records Librarian
U.S. Geological Survey Library--MS950
Reston, Virginia  20192  USA
Tel. 703-648-4399
Fax 703-648-6376

Opinions expressed are my own, not my agency's!

"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on
the next seven generations."--from The Great Laws of the Iroquois
Confederacy

"We can constantly make new things.  But we can't make a new
world."--Kentaro Matsuura