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Article #31178

Re: Gee whiz...

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From: David Beckemeyer
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1988 05:08
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In article <7590@apple.Apple.Com> landon@Apple.COM (Landon Dyer) writes:
>We each had a two-minute interview to save our jobs.  FTB kept fourteen out
>of sixty or so engineers.  Very entertaining.  I don't think any of us had
>much 68000 experience; they were looking for slaves.  In some respects the
>people who were layed-off were the lucky ones....

They gave you two whole minutes?  What did you say to keep your job.
Couldn't you think of anything that would have gotten you fired?  I
bet you could think of a few things now, huh?

When this is all through, I think I'll write a book.  I can see it now:
	"I was a respected computer professional, with a promising
	career, until I got involved with ... THEM ... (letterman
	screach sounds go here)"
-- 
David Beckemeyer			| "To understand ranch lingo all yuh
Beckemeyer Development Tools		| have to do is to know in advance what
478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610	| the other feller means an' then pay
UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david 	| no attention to what he says"
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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gee whiz...
Message-ID: <175@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 05:08:42 GMT
References: <7590@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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