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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: welcome to Businessland
Message-ID: <995@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 11:58:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwatf.995
Posted: Mon Jun 17 11:58:34 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Jun-85 04:56:16 EDT
References: <979@trwatf.UUCP> <837@gloria.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA.
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In article <837@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> 
>> Marketing strategists are apparently targeting their wares towards the
>> customers with the money.  That means corporations.  In typical
>> marketing-oriented fashion they call themselves "the business experts"
>> selling "business systems" to "improve your office productivity" ad
>> nauseum.  And of course they style themselves by a name that will
>> inspire confidence and professionalism.  Thus we get names either
>> prefixed or suffixed by the word "business."
>
> Because nowadays every businessman with some spare money runs out
> and buys a computer system, usually long before he knows what he's
> going to do with it.
>
> Then he hires somebody like YOU at $25/hour to do something with it.
> And you're objecting to this?

Damn right.  I'd rather be doing something productive with my mind than
fiddling with an IBM boat anchor.
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