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Subject:Re: Bomb Threats From:JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM Date:Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:17:49 -0400
In a message dated 97-08-02 14:26:35 EDT, steph -at- SCOTTRELL -dot- COM (S. Cottrell)
writes:
<< I recently had
to write instructions for receptionists on how to page the entire building
in case of an emergency. Since the nature of the emergency might be
sensitive information or something that could cause a panic >>
Bank procedures include this sort of thing too. Inadvertantly hilarious,
since as I remember they instruct the employee to fill out a specific form
(the pink one, as I remember) along with other bureaucratically improbable
(under the circumstances) steps.
Jim Chevallier
Los Angeles
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