While the wholesaler in Schneider escaped liability, scenarios that potentially could give rise to liability are myriad. In other words, the wholesaler escaped liability because the wholesaler had no knowledge that the retailer intended to sell the pork raw or uncooked. The Utah Supreme Court affirmed a jury verdict in the wholesaler’s favor on grounds that the retailer knew that the pork was raw and unprocessed and otherwise had assured the wholesaler that the retailer would cook the pork before selling it to others. The consumer sued the wholesaler for compensation for the injuries suffered. The retailer then sold the pork to a consumer, who contracted trichinosis, a food-borne disease caused by a parasite, after eating the pork. Suhrmann, in which a wholesaler provided a retailer with raw, unprocessed pork. Third, the supplier fails to use reasonable care to safeguard against the danger or to inform the user of the facts which make it likely to be dangerous. Second, the supplier knows or reasonably should know that the user will not realize the danger. First, the supplier knows of the chattel’s dangerous potential. The supplier of a chattel incurs liability for injury caused thereby if three conditions are met. Under Utah law, a person who supplies a “chattel” – a fancy legal term for personal property – to another potentially faces legal liability, if the chattel causes physical injury to the person who uses the chattel. Leave comments, build your profile, and try to become one of the "big fish." Visit the Shark Bait site to get started.Have you ever loaned a tool to a neighbor to assist with a household project? Or how about a car to a relative to assist with getting to work or school? Or how about provided a homecooked meal to mother who recently gave birth to a new baby? In doing so, did it even cross your mind that your good intentions could expose you to legal liability? If not, it should have. Submit your own tech-related "baits" for points, or rate other baits. If you love Shark Tank, you'll have fun with Shark Bait, a place where you can really tear apart IT. Have a similar experience? Then add your comments to the daily Shark Tank blog! Send it to me at You'll get a stylish Shark shirt if I use it. Sharky will get nowhere fast without your true tale of IT life. "The kicker? After spending four months of trying to get me into their team, the new employer lays off the entire department eight months later." The contracting company finally relents and lets me move to my new position - four months after I tried to leave in the first place. "I'm bothered by this seeming lack of ethics, not to mention the heavy-handed approach to staff retention, and threaten to immediately quit both companies. "Instead, I'm forbidden to mention to the client that I have resigned or that I want to leave," says fish. When fish finds out, he's irritated that no one has offered any sort of raise or incentive to stay. Turns out that the contract with that client is up for renewal, and fish has done such a bang-up job that his continued presence is part of the deal. That doesn't work, but the contracting company is able to arm-twist fish's new employer to contract him back to work for the contracting company - which then assigns him right back to work for the client with the automated-to-boredom data center. "It's only for people on that particular project, but that doesn't stop him from giving it a really good go."įirst, the contracting company threatens to sue fish's new employer if it hires him. "This manager digs around and finds that my current employer has a subdivision that has a contract with a subdivision of my new employer that prohibits recruiting employees of each other's companies," fish says. Then he finds another job and submits his resignation.īut he happens to mention to his boss who the new employer is.
Then he asks for, say, some slightly different work that might be less boring. Unfortunately, fish has already automated his work so completely that there's nothing even remotely interesting to do.
#No gooddeed goesunpunished windows#
"In a year, I create several remote administration tools for Windows, oversee migration to Windows 3.11 and generally do such a good job the client decides to not only renew the contract, but significantly increase the scope and value."
"I'm the general admin reporting to their very junior project IT manager," says fish.
It's the early 1990s and this sysadmin pilot fish is working for an IT contracting company, assigned to a data center running lots of Windows PCs and a few Unix servers.
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