Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david 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 Lines: 18 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"