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Article #86413Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive
From: Rob.hall
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:00
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In article <6i3h97$1ga$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>#1/1, NightSerf <acs6j@Virginia.EDU> wrote: > > > > I am doing researching if there are any companies that > > dictate what kind of car you drive to work. I along with > > several other people use to work for MCI and a couple of > > us got a lecture on what kind of car we should drive as > > opposed to what we had. One guy had an old Suburban > > and a Sr. Mgr. told him to park way out. I use to have a > > 1990 Mustang GT and was chewed out for driving a "redneck" > > car and it looked bad on the company (not a yuppie car). > still rare? > > I don't know how rare this is, but I do know that *I've* never > heard of such a thing before. I'm tempted to believe that > you're making this up. > > -- This sounds pretty phony to me.. I work for MCI (Software Systems Engineer, manager III level). My sr. Mgr drives an '86 Bronco, my team lead drives an '83 Volvo, and I drive a mint-condition red '87 Mustang GT, a '88 Bronco II, and probably a BMW M3 soon.. And I'm a Gen-x (27) yuppie techie.. ;-) Robert Hall -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: Rob.hall@mci.com Subject: Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive Date: 1998/05/03 Message-ID: <6ii859$2h3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 349843403 References: <3544C832.4E4BD827@kktv.com> <6i3h97$1ga$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>#1/1 X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun May 03 17:05:45 1998 GMT Newsgroups: co.general,va.general,rec.autos.driving,dc.driving