Re: More Blathering

From: CyberDroog (CyberDroog_at_starfleet.gov)
Date: 09/26/03


Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:40:58 GMT

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:45:26 GMT, "J. Random User"
<nospam@nospamnosiree.com> wrote:

>It was once the culture of most companies I've worked for to allow software
>engineers some perqs besides the money they were paid -- personal phone
>calls,
>use of the web, etc. Not unlimited, no, but some of that seemed to part of
>the
>deal. Companies allowed it because good programmers were hard to get,
>and, well, they were just "those weird programmer guys" as far as lots of
>companies
>were concerned.
>
>Times have changed. I don't approve. I shall continue to act as if they
>haven't,
>because I feel that way of doing business is the "right" way.

It's a good thing you are aiming for anonymity now. Your posts read like
the resume of a welfare recipient.

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PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. 
  - Ambrose Bierce 


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