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| 5302.1 | | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Tue May 27 1997 13:53 | 18 |
| >> In the same vein as "You might be a readneck if..."
Is that the opposite of a "writeneck"? Or a contraction of "read bottleneck"?
Does your use of that spelling, or my commentary on it, qualify as "You might
work for Digital if..." entries?
OK, here are a few off the top of my head:
... you think "alphabet" is a corporate strategy;
... you hear about non-aligned nations, and you think they don't begin on
quadword boundaries;
... you almost start correcting someone singing a Christmas carol: "DIGITAL the
halls...";
... you get confused between "digital TV" and "DVN";
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| 5302.2 | | ALFSS2::MITCHAM_A | Andy in Alpharetta (near Atlanta) | Tue May 27 1997 15:07 | 5 |
| ...you are told your group will not be supporting a piece of hardware
(virtually identical to one which you presently support) because you
don't support the operating system(s) that is factory installed on it.
-Andy
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| 5302.3 | Identify crissi | PTOJJD::DANZAK | | Tue May 27 1997 15:10 | 3 |
| Your company keeps thinking it has an identify crisis, keeps
re-branding itself, but never consistently spends money on consistent
marketing...
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| 5302.4 | | CSC32::C_BENNETT | | Tue May 27 1997 16:37 | 4 |
| ...have a Digital badge?
What is the point of this note?
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| 5302.5 | Can you say reorganization, boys and girls? | NYOSS1::16.69.80.36::GOODMAN | Roy Goodman | Tue May 27 1997 18:12 | 4 |
| ...you've held the same job for thirteen(!) years but the name of the
division you work for has changed more than four times.
:^)
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| 5302.6 | some ideas | BUSY::RSTPIERRE | | Tue May 27 1997 19:16 | 7 |
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...when your company claims "Alpha Station Domination" but has 1% of
the makret...
...when the org chart that should look like a pyramid looks like a top
...when your company has 1 VP for every enployee
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| 5302.7 | | TNPUBS::WOODWARD | I'll put this moment...here | Tue May 27 1997 19:41 | 14 |
| You might work for DIGITAL if...
your favorite color is burgundy.
you attend "going away" lunches every other day.
your office contains 47 cases of empty Coke cans.
you use your key card as an ice scraper.
your life imitates Dilbert.
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| 5302.8 | | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Tue May 27 1997 19:45 | 11 |
| >> What is the point of this note?
Well, I assumed it was intended that people make up jokes (in the spirit of
"You might be a redneck if..." jokes), but it appears that few people have
taken it that way.
BTW, I meant my earlier "alphabet" comment to be a play on "bet on Alpha" as
opposed to a reference to the "alphabet soup of DIGITAL organizations." Sorry,
for the confusion, I'm just not feeling cynical today.
Brian
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| 5302.9 | | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Tue May 27 1997 20:15 | 17 |
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More like
You might be a digit if.....
Change no longer even rattles you.
Your family still asks you why you can't get them discounts on
watches.
The nearest bars to your jobsite are known as
sitecode-building-number one higher than the highest building on your
campus.
meg
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| 5302.10 | | PCBUOA::KRATZ | | Tue May 27 1997 21:01 | 3 |
| ...you wonder how $2b+ in cash could be used to build or acquire
businesses, rather than just to send a bunch of lawyer's kids to
colleges near deep water ports.
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| 5302.11 | | JOKUR::MACDONALD | | Tue May 27 1997 21:08 | 1 |
| You've been densified.
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| 5302.12 | | PHXSS1::HEISER | Maranatha! | Tue May 27 1997 21:22 | 3 |
| OpenVMS is no longer thought of, or treated like, a legacy system.
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| 5302.13 | | ZVOLMC::LE_TH | | Tue May 27 1997 22:12 | 13 |
| ..you think
1. Premium price is what customers think, not DIGITAL
2. Let Others care about home-users, they (home-users) couldn't afford
the high price
3. Home-users demand high quality systems in a low price tag products
(not being realistic)
4. Less chances for "conflict" because corporate-users don't need
hardware upgrade.
cheers,
/Thien
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| 5302.14 | | SMURF::PSH | Per Hamnqvist, UNIX/ATM | Wed May 28 1997 00:55 | 16 |
| ...being cheerful at work makes you feel guilty
...reading a mail from a VP makes you think of Chevy Chase
...you have doubts Bob Palmer actually exists
...young means 35
...you wonder why 27 would not fit the 1-3-9 strategy
...your mail address ends with .dec.com
...you think long term is a DECterm with 53 lines and scroll bars
...you think growth is the green stuff on lunch bags in the fridge
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| 5302.15 | | HELIX::WELLCOME | Steve Wellcome SHR3-1/C22 Pole A22 | Wed May 28 1997 12:28 | 4 |
| re: .14
27? Hmmm...I've been wondering if the next number in the 1-3-9
sequence ought to be 11 or 81.
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| 5302.16 | | FSCORE::B_LEURY | | Wed May 28 1997 13:24 | 2 |
| .....you've moved cubicle five times in the past three years and now
you're right back in your first cubicle!
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| 5302.17 | re:.14 nice one !! | ROMSLS::ABRAMOVICI | Are you Micro-soft ? | Wed May 28 1997 16:35 | 8 |
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I don't know if we have a competition here, but if we have, reply.14
(per) has to be the winner. They're all really amusing !!
Michel
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| 5302.18 | | MCSILO::KNEWELL | Galway, Ireland | Fri May 30 1997 11:29 | 13 |
| You work for a company called Digital
who now wants to be known as DIGITAL
We're DEC to the rest
our stuff is the best
(Management assures us that we are well positioned for growth in the
last line of this Limerick.)
-Kevin
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| 5302.19 | | ZEKE::BURTON | Jim Burton, DTN 381-6470 | Fri May 30 1997 12:09 | 7 |
| >> .....you've moved cubicle five times in the past three years and now
>> you're right back in your first cubicle!
...but it's now half the size!
Jim
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