> but I believe this line of thinking is a simplification Yea, sure. I wasn't meaning to take a hard moralist or anti-system stance, when I say "the company is

> but I believe this line of thinking is a simplification Yea, sure. I wasn't meaning to take a hard moralist or anti-system stance, when I say "the company is greedy" I understand the company and its people are a cog in a larger machine. There is a simpler way out than waiting for a cultural change to stop that practice, though: regulation. I'm not entirely sure, but I doubt that here in Europe it's so easy for companies to sell payroll data - if at all legal. At any rate it sounds like an abhorrent practice.