chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) (03/06/85)
Bored while waiting for compiles, I opened my newly arrived package of IEEE SPECTRUM Direct Request Information Cards. Along with ads about IC manuals and multitesters, I find (*surprise!*), that a company called Computer Dynamics in Greer, South Carolina, is advertising bathing suits! What a funny name for a sportswear company! Let's look at the copy: "NO TIME FOR ASSEMPLY PROGRAMMING?" Well, I guess she just can't wait to get to the beach. "For the engineer with a computer control project to implement,..." Okay, folks, it's revelation time: how many of YOU program in your bathing suit? (no, not your birthday suit) What about you hardware folks who actually get down and assemble iron: do you wear your bathing suit in the lab while soldering and so on? I'll start: I don't, at least not at the office, and *never* in March. 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the computer room.' I'm sending letters to the Advertising Director of IEEE and to Computer Dynamics, suggesting a professional attitude is more appropriate. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752
rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) (03/08/85)
> > Okay, folks, it's revelation time: how many of YOU program in your bathing > suit? (no, not your birthday suit) What about you hardware folks who actually > get down and assemble iron: do you wear your bathing suit in the lab while > soldering and so on? I'll start: I don't, at least not at the office, and > *never* in March. 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the computer room.' > > L S Chabot I did just that at Club Med in the Bahamas, two years ago this month! Seriously, I do see what your getting at. But remember, sex sells! Are you old enough to remember print ads for auto makers from the late 1960's? Or better yet, many of the ads for men's AND women's clothing that we see today? I can't say it's right, but I'm not convinced it's wrong. But then, your "common man(kind)" might not be able to see through the hype. And that's where the trouble really begins! *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
annab@azure.UUCP (A Beaver) (03/12/85)
>References: <902@decwrl.UUCP> > ............... Along with ads about IC manuals and > multitesters, I find (*surprise!*), that a company called Computer Dynamics > in Greer, South Carolina, is advertising bathing suits! > Okay, folks, it's revelation time: how many of YOU program in your bathing > suit? (no, not your birthday suit) > ..............: do you wear your bathing suit in the lab while > soldering and so on? I'll start: I don't, at least not at the office, and > *never* in March. > > L S Chabot I agree with lisa, maintaining a professional look is quite important at work. I know that 'I' take my job seriously and it is SO much easier to get co-workers to realize that when one dresses accordingly. Either the people at the mag. don't know that, or they don't take US seriously. ~l /l /5l\ / 0l \ Annadiana Beaver / 5 l \ A Beaver@Tektronix /____l___\ ,,,,\__,,,_/,,,, "I'd rather be sailing" wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Now, if I can just convince my boss that he should let me work from home ......
dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) (03/14/85)
[] > Okay, folks, it's revelation time: how many of YOU program in your bathing > suit? (no, not your birthday suit) Well, I usually program in shorts and a T-shirt until I can get up the energy to go running (It ain't easy in Manhattan). Then I take a shower, get dressed and eat breakfast. By that time, it's usually around 4:00pm. Isaac Dimitrovsky The Bronx? God bless them!