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- From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norm G. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.024658.28378@tin.monsanto.com>
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- Organization: Monsanto Company
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- References: <1992Aug12.125333.24103@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:46:58 GMT
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- jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley) writes:
- : In a previous life, I was doing consulting work for a state agency
- : (programming COBOL on an IBM System/36 - never again!). There was a
- : way to terminate certain jobs that ran before they were completed, and
- : whenever I trapped the proper signal, I'd display a message "JOB
- : ABORTED". Once the job was compl;eted and had been running for a
- : couple of weeks, a bigger cheese than the one who had contracted me
- : came down to look at the system. This guy took one look at the message
- : and flipped, since he was anti-choice. He insisted I change all of the
- : messaged that said "ABORT".
-
- I love it when complaints about Political Correctness contain
- Politically Correct phrases like "anti-choice".
-
- Norman G. Hoffman
- Research Computing Consortium
- Monsanto Company
- 700 Chesterfield Parkway North
- St. Louis, Missouri 63198
- Phone: 314-537-7018
- Email: nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
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