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Article #86425Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive
From: Tim Schreiner
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00
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I don't see how it is any of the employer's business, unless you entertain clients or represent them in a sales or public relations position. Most of these people are furnished company vehicles anyway. There may be a case where you work for a manufacturer, and they really don't want workers driving Fords into GM plants or vice-versa. That is certainly understandable. Tim Schreiner 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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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: Tim Schreiner <timschreiner@ibm.net> Subject: Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive Date: 1998/04/27 Message-ID: <354503E1.9935512B@ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 348231336 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3544C832.4E4BD827@kktv.com> X-Notice: should be forwarded in their entirety to postmaster@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 27 Apr 1998 23:18:57 GMT, 129.37.239.65 Organization: IBM.NET MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: timschreiner@ibm.net Newsgroups: co.general,va.general,rec.autos.driving,dc.driving