These darned old computers

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Aug 25 11:07:01 2002

--- Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd_at_ccp.com> wrote:
> Ben Franchuk wrote:
>
> > Look at the PC -- crap with a big blue name.
>
> Is that how IBM came to be known as I've Been Moved?

Presuming your question is not sarcastic (didn't see any smileys),
Big Blue was known as that a long time before the PeeCee. It
was their practice of reassigning people from facility to facility
enough to be intrusive. I don't have numbers, but I have heard
stories from folks about working in multiple cities over their
careers.

-ethan


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