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- From: orc@sybase.com (Orc)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225056.21996@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:50:56 GMT
- References: <28223@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan22.064326.23715@midway.uchicago.edu> <16576@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Organization: Department of Ambiguity
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- In article <16576@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- >| As a tech writer for a _database_ company, where no one even
- >|wants to even _admit_ that the documents in question even exist,
- >|let alone read them, it's nice. And at Sybase, it's the second
- >|lowest job on the food chain (the lowest, of course, being *my*
- >|job...)
- >
- >You must be the systems administrator. I think we've still got a couple
- >of your guys hanging around one of our systems. They've been working here
- >for about a month. I guess they just don't want to go back.
-
- Nope. the CS staff is about third up on the food chain; they're
- far enough up so they can enjoy the luxury of politics. No, the
- bottom of the food chain is the _consultant_ - we're needed, but
- nobody wants to admit that they'll actually use us.
-
- ____
- -david parsons \bi/ Who will be discreet talking about his employers
- \/ today.
-