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To: BluesDuke
(On those occasions when I've been canned, I was always allowed at least to retrieve my personal possessions from my desk before leaving.)

You obviously had not just finished telling your Department Manager precisely what you thought of her from a personal and professional standpoint.

Actually, now that I think about it, security wasn't called to help me find my way to the door. Weird.

BluesDuke, thanks for posting the Noah Dietrich story. It was a very interesting read. Howard Hughes is a very fascinating character.

Have yourself a great day!

20 posted on 11/17/2010 3:39:43 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: MaggieCarta
You obviously had not just finished telling your Department Manager precisely what you thought of her from a personal and professional standpoint.
I waited until I had my personal possessions out of my desk and in my car.

Then I told the damned fool that taking lessons in propriety from him was a lot like learning about love from Joseph Stalin.

thanks for posting the Noah Dietrich story. It was a very interesting read. Howard Hughes is a very fascinating character.
I'd like to see Dietrich's memoir come back into print. Granted that Dietrich died in 1982 (he was 93), but it's practically the best book I ever read about the Hughes empire's making and near-unmaking. (Hughes could have been destroyed by the TWA financing crisis during which he lost Dietrich---Dietrich pressed for that capital-gains agreement as a condition for his going to Texas to inflate Hughes Tool profit enough to let Hughes sell the company to pay for 63 Convair 880 jets to augment the carrier's Boeing 707s---but, not long after Dietrich left Hughes, Hughes was forced circumstantially to sell his major stake in the airline, when creditors refused to allow him control of both aircraft development and operation . . . and the sale proved one of the greatest bonanzas of the early jet age.)
22 posted on 11/17/2010 2:41:00 PM PST by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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