Who is playing the gentleman?

Posted by Barry Froggatt on 03 December 2000 at 22:06:15:

I've been sitting on the sidelines so far but I can't help wondering if this 'playing the gentleman' attitude that is being advocated is not doing our cause a disservice. Personally I feel very aggrieved that the Company who I trusted in the past to 'do the right thing' by me in return for many years of loyal service should now be causing us all this uncertainty. I cannot see that it would do any harm to our case to leak the situation to the media, the longer that things are kept under wraps the longer IBM have to prepare their case. In my opinion things stopped being gentlemanly as soon as IBM took actions on our pension fund without the agreement of the members.