Conference turris::womannotes-v2

You start making tradeoffs about what to have for dinner.
	Mez

    You answer your telephone at home:
    
    "Media, Carol Higgins"
    
    or,
    
    "Media...mmm....er...a...hello"

    
    
    re.2
    
    I have the same problem, "Producibility, this is Robin . . . ",
    but I've only been here 8 months!

    You answer your home phone, "Remote Sales, may I have your
    access number?" and you hear your mother's voice say,
    "Nanci???"
    
    Nanci

    ... you go to call someone on a push button phone, and you press
    the numbers as they would be on the terminal number pad.
    
    424-1134 looks like 484-7794.
    
    And the funny thing, for me, is; before DEC, I was a cashier supervisor
    for 4 years, and the register number keypad is set the same way
    as a terminal number keypad, so I have had this problem for almost
    6 years!
    
    K.C.

    You remember your work phone number, but not the one at home.
    
    When someone asks for your phone number, you reply, "Do you want
    to reach me, or phone my house?"
    
    You know your co-workers better than you know your family.
    
    Going home on time makes you wonder what you forgot to do at the
    office.
    
    Barb

    I had ordered a catalog - the woman asked where could she send it
    and I gave her my mailstop instead of my home address.
    
    Oops!
    
    Susan

    when I leave a message on someone's answering machine and start
    pressing 1 on the telephone, as I would do with VOICEMAIL.
    *beep!*   (wonder what they think of that?)
    
    t.

... when you need to contact someone and get annoyed because you
can't remember their VAXmail address until you remember that they
don't work at Digital or have access to any electronic mail. 

    You folks might want to look in the war stories notesfile
    ({manana|glivet|tamara|xanadu}::war_story) number 132.* for
    more of these kinds of anecdotes.

    People tell how they knew they had been working too hard when they find
    the checkbook balanced in hexadecimal, or that they keep trying
    to talk in TECO, or they start to teach their child the DEC alphabet
    by mistake.

    
    	I also want to answer my phone at home by saying, "US Area,
    Rachel speaking" so there is always a huge pause when I answer the
    phone....and then last night when my best friend called at 12:30
    and I was asleep, I did answer it like that and blew her mind.
    
    	The other aspect about working here that really scares me is
    that I'm beginning to recognise different sites based on the area
    codes (714 is LA) or the first 3 numbers of the dtn....264 is MKO.....
    
    GO IRISH!
    
    Rachel

	when you're standing outside your office and
someone passes by and asks where you live, so you point
to your office and say "right here" only to find out
that they wanted to know where your home is.

					Larry
					  ~

    ... when you look at Martin's example, and think of it as a
    bad net address.
    
    							Ann B.

    
    ...when I write to someone near and dear to me about "being the gourmet
    in this dua0" instead of "duo".
    
    
    am

    As a corollary to .9, when someone on the Outside asks for your
    (home) address, and you answer with your nodename.
    
    --- jerry

    Somebody mentions digital watches and you say "I didn't know we
    made them"

    
    	You know *two* ways of going from bldg 5 to bldg 8 - without
    having to go outside.

    They pry your cold dead hands form the key board

    You dial 8 on your homoe phone to get an outside number.
    
    Tobins food taste like home-made.
    
    

...when you make your rent check out to your landlord (also a deccie)
and make it payable to their node::name address...sigh

Jenna

    .....you sound cool and professional upon answering your phone at
    home.  If the call is not for you, you "screen" the caller with
    a professional line!

    justme....jacqui

    ps....and then gasp at where your "real person" went!

    
    
    You forget how to use a typewriter, and avoid them at all possible
    cost--even dialing in at 1200 baud!
    
    When you scream at your typewriter because it can't cut and paste
    or spellcheck:)
    
    Barb

    RE: the other phone replies
    
    When you try to dial hubby's DTN from your HOME PHONE!
    
    AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
    
    Susan

    re: .18
    
    Two Mill corollaries:  when you can't get lost at all, even a little
    	     	      	   bit.
    
    			   when the place begins to make sense.
    
    Steve

    When the "Highway" in question is manufactured by Allen-Bradley.
    
    (I guess you have to come from a Factory Automation background
    to understand this one...)

    
    
    re .25
    
    Personally, after only 6 months, I"m convinced all of MA works for
    DEC!!

    I am under the understanding that EVERYONE is or was working for
    DEC.  
    
    ;^)
    
    K.C.

    More Christmas decorations about your cube than at your home. (sigh)
    
                                                -sunny-

    You hear on the radio a traffic report referring to the traffic status
    on the DEC tunnel bridge.  Or at least that's what you think you
    hear.  Funny, I didn't know we built tunnels or bridges.  On further
    cogitation, it seems to be deck-tunnel-bridge, referring to Boston's
    Lower Deck, the Callahan Tunnel, and the Mystic Tobin(?!) Bridge.
    
    (?!)maybe that's why their food is like it is, their REAL job is
    building BRIDGES.
    
    -Jody
    

    ... when you're surprised that a fellow Deccie is unfamiliar
    with our tunnel bridges, or aerial tunnels, such as those
    between buildings one and three in the Mill.
    
    						Ann B.

...when you see a reference to the "DEC Tunnel Bridge" and immediately
    marvel at those Ethernet engineers, what will they think of next?
    
    DougO
    
    PS- Actually, this doesn't come from working here too long.  It
    comes from being on the outside *buying* all this stuff for too
    long, I have a memory socket pre-allocated to the "DEC-------"
    phrasing!  [ send this over to the mataphors topic... ]

    When you wish you could look up *everyone* on ELF. I was going to
    visit a college friend in CT, when I got home I remembered I'd
    forgotten her address at work and for a fleating moment thought
    "oh that's ok I can look her up on ELF". oops the whole world isn't
    on elf. 

    ....new hires are impressed by your 5-digit badge #

    or your 4-digit one!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ...when the main instigators of the pseudo sex war are boring you
    to death.

    	
    	You've been working here too long, Pollitz, when you feel you
    	must take your Sacred Crusade Against Feminism into even the
    	lightest of topics.
    
    	

    re .40  Yes Betty.

    Mike,
    
    It's the body of ideas from Seneca Falls, Engels, Marx, Reich,
    Goldman, DeBeauvoir, Friedan, Greer, Millett, Steinem, Brownmiller,
    Chowdorow, Chesler, Dworkin, Eisler, and many others who believe
    that man has placed himself *very* deliberately over women - a
    placement manifested in institutions like business, family, and
    other areas - to the point where women are (or have become) 
    oppressed people.
    
    Needless to say a baby country like the US produces volatile files
    such as these (with major disagreements as to 'who is most at fault')
    unlike maturer European counterparts.
    
    The European attitude regarding the sexes is "viva la difference!"
    
    The American attitude is everything but.
    
    
                                                     Russ P.

    	You've been working here too long, Pollitz, when you respond
    	to an obviously humorous remark with a serious lecture on the
    	ideology you love to hate.
    
    	Let me guess:  You probably send out anti-Feminist greeting
    	cards this time of year (instead of cards that have to do with
    	the holidays,) right?  
    
    	I'd be willing to bet that your Valentine cards are a scream, 
    	too ("Please be my non-Feminist Valentine, because....<insert
    	lengthy anti-Feminist diatribe here>...")
    
    
    	Also, I bet the message on your recording machine goes something
    	like "Can't come to the phone now, but please leave your name
    	and number at the tone and I'll give you a call back UNLESS
    	you are a Feminist, because on p. 231 of her book, Eisler says..."

    re .44   My valentines have been known to make them scream ...
    
             Eisler says "Non-feminists works such as Robert Briffault's.."
    
             You see, her dichotomy, her crystalized mind structure,
             is more black/white than anything I've ever seen in
              "male minds", save for the "Skinheads" perhaps.
    
    
                                                    Russ P.

re:.46
    
>             You see, her dichotomy, her crystalized mind structure,
>             is more black/white than anything I've ever seen in
>              "male minds"

	mirror, anyone?
    
    

    *sigh*  This *was* a fun note...

... perhaps they've been working too long, too...

This morning, I got lost visiting Spitbrook when the paint scheme in
the corridors didn't match the resistor code.

For the non-techhies, electronic components are often identified by
a paint code in which every color has an associated digit.  0-9 are
Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White.

In the Mill, you'll see paint stripes on the corridors that, if you
can read the code, will tell you what floor you're on.

Martin.

    (desperately trying to get the fun back in this topic...)
    
    ... your DECcie friends, and other electronic acquaintances, get
    notes, messages, jokes from you on a frequent basis, then another
    friend calls up and asks why you haven't written, and you're forced
    to say, "Because I don't have any stamps..."
    
    ... you can't get out to buy stamps because of the hours of the
    Post Office don't match your 6am to 6 pm schedule.
    
    ... you have to dial in from home to check your "personal address/phone
    number" book.  (Which is in electronic format...)
    
    ... you're surprised to find a 3-ring binder that's not orange (and now
    grey is in, too!)
    
    ... people ask you where you work, and you say your three letter
    facility code, and they look at you funny when you catch yourself
    (after their puzzled look) and elaborate, "Digital Equipment..."
    
    ... you know the grounds personnel's first names.
    
    ... you're on a first name basis with the people that work at the
    deli right down the road from your facility.
    
    
    Sometimes, when things get intense, and I'm in and out at all hours,
    I keep getting this feeling one of these days I'm going to open
    the door to leave, and meet myself coming in, like the Dunkin' Donuts
    guy...
    
    Bill

    ...you answer your home phone Marge Davis because half the calls
    coming into the house are support calls.
    
    *sigh*
    
    

    ...when you go away for a week's vacation and can't wait to get
    back because you're going into Notes Withdrawal...
    
    --- jerry

    Home phone blues is the lesser evil, I once said "Digital Equipment,
    Christiane Weyrich, good morning" to my alarm clock....
    .... and once, when painting, I thought I got the wrong escape sequence
    - the green of the trees didn't look the way I wanted it to.
    Russ, when have you last been to Europe? You must have been in
    Vatican...maybe you need an update?
    best regards from Germany
    pony
     +
    
    

I got a live (ball attached [and it doesn't threaten me :-)]) Xmas tree from my
folks who run a tree nursery. My mom called to give me instructions to keep it
from dying before I plant it. She said "Don't keep it in the house any longer
than 7 to 10 days." And I started to say "No problem; we won't keep it in a
whole two weeks.". Then I realized 10 days is a week and a half.
	Mez

    when a arrives via USMail addressed:
    
       "Ann Johnston
    	Merrimack, New Hampshire"
    
    The post-mark is _three_ days old, the letter is from Chicago, and
    handwritten on the envelope [I assume by a Merrimack USPS employee]
    is 'she's at DEC' !!
    
    
      Ann

1. you totally forgot that tomorrow's a day off.

2. you start to reply to a note, get diverted to a conversation, return
   to your terminal to see the editor's blank screen, and need several
   minutes to recall what notesfile you were writing to.  [Not this one,
   by the way.]

Have a nice weekend.  See 'yall on Tuesday.  (Tuesday, right?).

M.

    You know you've been here too long when you're suprised to see that
    DEC acronyms are not in Webster's Dictionary.
                                       
    -When, in the middle of a deep sleep, you wake up with a great idea
    for improving your job. By morning you've forgotten it.
    
    Kate
    

    The being in NOTES withdrawal is SO true.. I just got back from 7
    days in Orlando, Fla, and after about 4 days wanted to just sit
    and read NOTES :-)...
    
    RE: some few back....  Russ's valentine and Christmas cards are
    personally selected, from this really neat store.... (Sorry, I forget
    the name of it)... but they are the neatest things I have ever seen!...
    
    Gale
    

    ....you give your address as Terminal B, Logan Airport!
    
    P.
    

...when your teen ager begs you to get off the notes file so s/he
can call his/her friend.

cal

    
    Cal,
    
    that happens to me *all* the time! :-)
    
    Bonnie

    ....you *prefer* industrial-strength toilet paper

    When you hire the asbestos-removal company named DECTAM and feel
    comfortable with them and their name.  My neighbor asked who the
    people were with the funny name on their truck!!

    ... when you try to pick up (*7) your roommate's phone.

    Not intending to get off the topic, but I really enjoy this topic.
    
    Thanks to all who have contributed!  You've made me smile every
    time!
    
    Barb

    	...when your wife/husband/SO opens the door to let
    	   you in the house and you flash him/her your badge.
    
    	Scott

    When you want to note from home on a weekend, and get p.o.'ed because
    TSN has "system unavailable" msgs.
    
    Eric

	When you are asked where you live and you give your node address
	as in METOO::LEEDBERG....

	Worst is when you correct it with the site location  "No I mean
	Stow, OGO..."

	_peggy

	Or when you sign your name as you do in notes.....

    	.....the guest you had stay at your house spends ALLLLL
    	night logged in via setting host from your account one
    	night and the next from your husband's account!  AND
    	before agreeing to stay with you finds out whether or
    	not you have a terminal or modem!

    	justme....jacqui  ;*)

    ...your Notes sign-off tag becomes your default signature,
    appearing in your email, on your memos, on your manuals, and even
    (oops) on a check...{! no, the bank won't recognize this!}
    
    "DougO"

           
    
    ...you send a friend a real (paper) letter and insert a _sideways_
    smiley face after a joke.
    
    Roberta

    every piece of paper in your house has the digital logo....
    your wordrobe has more digital clothing than any thing else....
    
    
                  REK

    You listen to Dukakis talking about US, Europe, Canada and the Far
    East and wonder why he didn't just say GIA.
    
    Michelle

	When you sign your checks and documents with your personal
	name.

When in conversations you say the word "sigh" instead of actually
sighing...

    Steve,
    
    I've said 'sigh' in conversation for years, long before I was
    noting.
    
    :-)
    
    Bonnie

    re .75
    
    Reminds me - if you say "sigh" around my wife, she's likely to
    respond with "sigh star sigh" (or, rather, psi-star-psi).

    I, too, have said "sigh" for years before noting.
    
    When someone else says "sigh", I usually respond with "fie!"
    (think about it).
    
    --- jerry

    	This morning, I had to send some personal correspondance
    	through Federal Express (and then stopped when I realized
    	that the only address I had for the destination was a
    	Post Office Box.)
    
    	Thinking to myself that Federal Express won't deliver to
    	a Virtual Address, I called the office at the destination
    	and requested that they provide me with their 'PHYSICAL
    	Address.'  ;-)
    

       When you consider taking a job in another group and decline
       because you'd miss your cluster. I mean really, I've raised her
       since she was an infant. liesl

    ...when you find yourself dialing your badge # on the telephone
    and wondering why you keep coming up several digits short.
    
    ...when you answer your home phone with "channels marketing" and
    wonder why there is only silence--then laughter--on the other end.
    
    ...when you automatically (mental blackout, I guess) start down
    the road you use to go to work on your way to visit a friend,
    and sit in the DEC parking lot on Saturday afternoon wondering
    what in h*ll you are doing there!
    
    Marilyn
    

    ...when the doctor's office asks for your daytime number and you
    say "DTN 297..." and you wonder why they aren't writing it down...
    
    ...when you need to tell your husband something and type "mail"
    at the prompt before you remember he doesn't work for Digital...
    
    

    ...when you write down a paragraph that needs a colon 
       and you put down two.
    
       Jodi-

    When you can't afford a vacation long enough to make the number
    on your paystub to go to zero.