The lawyers already smell blood... (Score 1, Troll)

During the heydey of the dot-com "revolution," my employer and several others in the Valley supplied their employees with shiny new computers equipped with the latest in gaming hardware. Amongst the GeForce3's, 21 inch "perfectly flat" displays, and Windows 98 licenses, there were - you guessed it - vibrating controllers. Which are now apparently being deemed a health hazard.

Some of my former co-workers with whom I have kept in touch have been consulting lawyers in the area in the hopes of "demonstrating" that the vibrating controllers and other ergonomic no-nos committed in our workplace are grounds for getting some quick cash through the legal system. Because of the very nature of this sort of damage - that it is very difficult to prove whether or not somebody is feeling pain in their arm - they believe that it will be an open-and-shut case and that most companies will want to settle quickly to avoid further damage to stock prices and profits.

I don't wholehartedly condone this sort of behavior, but some companies have such an atrocious employee relations record that they almost deserve the misery...

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