On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Ed Finnell wrote:
-----------------SNIP----------------------------
Well, he's the same guy who overpunched a '-' on his utility bill
and every
time they'd process it they'd owe him more money. I'm not taking
sides he
was/is a really good systems person, morals and ethics can't speak
for. It was a
really nasty situation. Long ago and far away....
Ed:
That would have been (nasty) but fun to see the company trying to
balance the accounts. I don't recall ever seeing a place where I
worked a "return" item that was read by punch card type machine. I
would expect it to be a nasty job that no operator would ever want to
do, but I don't know any masochists . The closest I have seen is an
OCR reader and I don't recall any "funny" stories. I think the
strangest was when I worked for a magazine publisher and back in the
1960's people would wrap the insert card in magazines around a brick.
We would have to pay postage for the brick. I think it took several
years for the magazine to get the USPO to change the rules for those
items. My memory says the PO really put up a fight against the
proposed rules.
The employees got free copies of all the mags (except 1 and that was
reserved for management). The amount of postage free cards was almost
ridiculous . I don't subscribe to any of them currently but if they
are anything like other magazines there are probably more now.
Ed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
