Re: Request for new thread (was Re: Salutations!)

[Bob Morrisette <Robert -dot- Morrisette -at- EBAY -dot- SUN -dot- COM>]

> From svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM Fri May  2 10:15:07 1997
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> Date:         Fri, 2 May 1997 11:21:54 -0500
> From: Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM>
> Subject:      Re: Request for new thread (was Re: Salutations!)
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> Bob Morrisette wrote:
> >
> > BZZZTTTT! Wrong answer, but we do have a dull pencil as a
> > consolation prize.(8-0).
> > Scott Adams worked in a cubicle as a telecommunications engineer for
> > Pacific Bell until he was fired in 1995.
>
> Adams' version of the story is that after "Dilbert" became successful he
> (Adams of course) told his employers that he really didn't need his job,
> and if they needed to trim the workforce they could cut him first. They
> eventually took him up on the offer.
>
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In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Adams used the
word "fired" and hinted that the Pacific Bell version was
not accurate. The scuttlebutt was that some of the Pac Bell
managers felt that they were the subject of Scott's humor.

Off-topic, enough already.

Bob Morrisette

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