honey@down.FUN (code 101) (01/10/85)
the big news of the hour is that exxon office systems is down. all employees have been pink-slipped and asked never to return (as in, "please don't come to work tomorrow"). we trust we were not the proximate cause of exxon's troubles, although we still feel a little guilty about changing their root passwd ... but that was months ago. as a public service, we have offered accounts on princeton to the significant eosp1 users, but we could only think of one. so from now on, send mail to princeton!robinson (not robison!) -- north/honey ps: this is not a joke. you don't see a smiley face, do you?
hash@whuxl.UUCP (HASHIZUME) (01/11/85)
> the big news of the hour is that exxon office systems is down. > all employees have been pink-slipped and asked never to return > (as in, "please don't come to work tomorrow"). > WHAT !!??!!!??? Exxon Office systems down, meaning no more!?! Does that mean just in Princeton? The entire staff or partial? Or does that mean everywhere/everybody as in HQ: Stanford,CT; Clinton, NJ; wherever else? How come it wasn't in the Wall ST/NY Times? An interested NJ resident, --Mark Hashizume -- ..!houxm!whuxl!hash (Mark Hashizume @ AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ)
gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (01/13/85)
> How come it wasn't in the Wall ST [Journal]/NY Times?
'cause they only read the moderated newsgroups... X-}
Remember, you heard it first on Radio Free Usenet!honey@down.FUN (code 101) (01/14/85)
[i have with me mr. stephen beck, former software engineer at exxon office systems, princeton. (or is that software engineer at former exxon office systems?) mr. beck, could you answer a couple questions for us?] fire away. Exxon Office systems down, meaning no more!?! that's right, bucko. Does that mean just in Princeton? the world. The entire staff or partial? they kept only the incompetents. [deeper probing reveals his meaning: they closed all of manufacturing and development, there never was a research division, but they preserved the management structure.] Or does that mean everywhere/everybody as in HQ: Stanford,CT; Clinton, NJ; wherever else? HQ is still going strong, there never was anything in clinton. princeton is dead, as is lionville pa. How come it wasn't in the Wall ST/NY Times? they both wrote us off on november 20, so it's old news. their only interest was in the humiliation factor should some texan named bubba buy us, but even he wouldn't touch it. [thank you mr. beck. what will you do with yourself now?] as you know, i'm here today [princeton university] abasing myself in search of a job. [well good luck to you.] [peter]
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (01/18/85)
>... > fire away. > > Exxon Office systems down, meaning no more!?! > > that's right, bucko. > > Does that mean just in Princeton? No, no, Peter (oops, I mean peter), if you're trying to make it look like YOU'RE conducting the interview, you're supposed to put your questions all in lower case and use normal capitalization in the answers. Otherwise folks will think you're the jobless one and get confused. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.
honey@down.FUN (code 101) (01/20/85)
no, no, dick, i didn't ask the questions, they came out of some other note (whuxl!425?). i *did* type in mr. beck's replies. and i still can't find that shift key people keep telling me about ... peter