Re: end user vs end-user

Subject: Re: end user vs end-user
From: "Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:48:56 -0700



"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> wrote in message news:217355 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> While he was not a personal acquaintance of mind, the boss let it be
> known that the gentleman had made an arrangement with him on the basis
> of need. He had a fairly large family and was getting by either on
> unemployment or very low wages. We saved ends specifically for him,
> including some fairly generous ends that most stores would have kept
> slicing for a while. As a matter of maintaining some dignity, he
> expected to pay us ($3.00, as I recall, but this was in the early 1970s)
> for his package, rather than accepting it as a handout. The arrangement
> worked out fine for everyone. The store's principal gain was that we
> employees didn't have to feel guilty about throwing out perfectly good
> food (or feeding it to dogs); and at the same time we didn't have to
> have the case cluttered with less-than-appetizing ends.
>
I just wonder why people such as your boss here aren't running more
companies. Just think where Enron would be if he'd been running the show.

Chuck Martin



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