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RE: Convincing others of your value (was: Metrics in its own thread)
Subject:RE: Convincing others of your value (was: Metrics in its own thread) From:"Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:23:46 -0400
Dan Goldstein invoked Lt. Friday with:
>I've been trying to get our engineers to add an inverse tachyon chamber
to
>our product, or at least to the coffeemaker in the break room. It would
>certainly put the "Q" into "QA." Do you have a technical spec?
Sadly, it's a closely guarded trade secret, and I no longer work with
that company. However, I can tell you that we based our initial specs on
NASA-rated, advanced Bendy-Straw technology, and we leveraged both state
of the art Blue Stick'em and traditional toothpicks to add a beautiful
"Old World" styling to the design.
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