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Subject:Re: Request for new thread (was Re: Salutations!) From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 2 May 1997 11:21:54 -0500
Bob Morrisette wrote:
>
> BZZZTTTT! Wrong answer, but we do have a dull pencil as a
> consolation prize.(8-0).
> Scott Adams worked in a cubicle as a telecommunications engineer for
> Pacific Bell until he was fired in 1995.
Adams' version of the story is that after "Dilbert" became successful he
(Adams of course) told his employers that he really didn't need his job,
and if they needed to trim the workforce they could cut him first. They
eventually took him up on the offer.
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