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Article #86414Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive
From: Internet Gadfly
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:00
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In article <3544C832.4E4BD827@kktv.com>, spamh8@kktv.com says... > If you work for any of the car companies such as > GM, Ford, etc, please disregard. The same goes for > salesman. > > 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). > > A number of years back, the father of one of my friends > worked for a company that had a regulation on what kind > of car they could drive to work. A memo was put out that > only people in executive positions can drive a car like > BMW, Saab, Porsche, Lincoln and Cadillac. > > Is this more common that we think or is it still rare? I've heard that if you work for GM, Ford or Chrysler and you drive a foreign car to work, you are heavily encouraged to own an American car, preferably made by the company you work for. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Internet Gadfly Remove "XYZ" from Reply To: field to reply -----------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb785,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,df1345535139974 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public From: gadflyXYZ@ibm.net (Internet Gadfly) Subject: Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive Date: 1998/05/03 Message-ID: <MPG.fb68c51aef746f898973f@news3.ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 349890345 References: <3544C832.4E4BD827@kktv.com> X-Notice: should be forwarded in their entirety to postmaster@ibm.net X-Trace: 3 May 1998 19:16:32 GMT, 166.72.74.186 Organization: Gadflies of the World Inc. Reply-To: gadflyXYZ@ibm.net Newsgroups: co.general,va.general,rec.autos.driving,dc.driving