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Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive

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From: stevenhs
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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Fascists!

>Spam Hater wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
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From: stevenhs@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive
Date: 1998/04/29
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