[Ipg-smz] :-) So, in exploring GlassDoor.com's resources, etc

[Sharon Fisher]

I have, in fact, been to Remote, Oregon.

In the 1980s, I was working for infoworld , covering networking. There was
a company called DCA that made Irma, a Micro mainframe gateway.

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.

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.

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.

Remember, this was the mid 1980s.

Then we boarded a bus, got a box lunch of seafood, and traveled the rest of
the way to Remote, Oregon.

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.

Whereupon the pilot greeted us with, hey, did you hear? The stock market
fell 500 points today.

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.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 6:04 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
wrote:

>
> For a piece of an article I'm doing, I registered... and somehow (as I
> just noticed, a week later), I don't know what I typed in for "Company
> Name," but G/D somehow re-interpreted that as UPS, as in, that big
> shipping courier company.
>
> That (I know see) explains some of the otherwise mysterious messages or
> recommendations from GlassDoor over the past week.
>
> Fixed. I think.
>
> Well, that's better than LinkedIn's interpreting "Freelance" as a
> humongous company (last I checked).
>
> One positive about G/D's profile page, so far: "Location" includes
>
>    Remote (Work from Home) US
>
> but while G/D does good pattern-matching suggestions, pay attention, or
> you'll end up with a location of
>
>    Remote, OR (US)
>
> (which does, a quick web check shows, exist, at least.)
>
> Remotely yrs,
>
> DPD
>
>
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