<div dir="auto">I have, in fact, been to Remote, Oregon.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the 1980s, I was working for infoworld , covering networking. There was a company called DCA that made Irma, a Micro mainframe gateway.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One day, DCA announced that they were announcing a new remote product, and they were going to announce it in Remote, Oregon, and invited us all to attend. They'd arrange the transportation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This caused a quandary at Infoworld, because we weren't supposed to accept trips. We finally decided that a day trip to Remote, Oregon wasn't exactly a week in the Bahamas and anyway, how else would we get there? So I got permission.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So bright and early I went to the airport. They had Learjets from both San Jose and San Francisco. There were pastries on the plane. There was a phone, and we all called people to tell them we were calling from a Learjet.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Remember, this was the mid 1980s.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then we boarded a bus, got a box lunch of seafood, and traveled the rest of the way to Remote, Oregon.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As you might expect, this was a big deal for Remote, Oregon. News crews filmed us as we got off the bus. We went to the Remote, Oregon general store -- where, as it turns out, the proprietor was named Irma -- had the press conference, bought post cards, boarded the bus, and went back to the airport.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whereupon the pilot greeted us with, hey, did you hear? The stock market fell 500 points today.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So we flew back to the Bay Area, this time with the DCA executives, who were drinking Bloody Marys and wondering how they would pay for their kids' college educations. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 6:04 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
For a piece of an article I'm doing, I registered... and somehow (as I <br>
just noticed, a week later), I don't know what I typed in for "Company <br>
Name," but G/D somehow re-interpreted that as UPS, as in, that big <br>
shipping courier company.<br>
<br>
That (I know see) explains some of the otherwise mysterious messages or <br>
recommendations from GlassDoor over the past week.<br>
<br>
Fixed. I think.<br>
<br>
Well, that's better than LinkedIn's interpreting "Freelance" as a <br>
humongous company (last I checked).<br>
<br>
One positive about G/D's profile page, so far: "Location" includes<br>
<br>
Remote (Work from Home) US<br>
<br>
but while G/D does good pattern-matching suggestions, pay attention, or <br>
you'll end up with a location of<br>
<br>
Remote, OR (US)<br>
<br>
(which does, a quick web check shows, exist, at least.)<br>
<br>
Remotely yrs,<br>
<br>
DPD<br>
<br>
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