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

[Christine Hall]

So this means that everyone who had a job based in Remote was a Remote 
worker long before remote working became a thing?

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 12/24/19 9:40 AM, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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