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

[Tom Henderson]

Living in Indiana means that by default, I'm a remote worker because I 
live in a fly-over state. This is a decided benefit, when you can get a 
4bdrm house on an acre of land for under $200K with $2500/yr max 
property taxes. Shhhhh. Don't tell anybody.

Tom


On 12/24/19 10:26 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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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