(keitai-l) Re: [OT] Re: Re: What does everyone like (was KillerApps)

From: Benjamin Kowarsch <benjk_at_mac.com>
Date: 08/10/01
Message-Id: <v04003a00b799ccee16fe@[10.0.1.2]>
>you can sepreate the employess into two classes.  Ones who don't
>give a damned what their boss thinks and carry whatever phone they
>want... and those who are worried about their career and begrudgingly
>carry the politically correct phone (at least while at work).

Reminds me of "There are two kinds of people, those who divide people into
two kinds and those who don't" ;-)

>course the company in question has the idiotic policy of offering
>only a very slight discount for employees (and no discount for
>contractors) who want to buy company equipment.  This was demonstraited
>very vividly one day when a rebel employee was asked (very quitely)
>by her supervisor why she didn't carry company equipment... and a
>very loud answer resounded from her cubicle that she felt that it
>was important to carry a well designed phone that worked while at
>work (which demonstrates a very important rule that PHB's should
>adhear to:  don't ask what you think to be rethorical question if
>you aren't prepared to hear a non-rethorical answer!)

Reminds of often buying two or three sets of prepaid SIM cards when
visiting mobile telcos, so you can give everybody you meet with a local
number which happens to be on their network ;-)

rgds
benjamin



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