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Re: AFOLs as cheapskates
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:16:29 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mark Sandlin writes:
> Ray Sanders at rsanders@svic.net wrote:
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> > Gee... might that have anything to do with the fact that we are AFOLs 24/7,
> > while many of the TLC people are 8-5 employees 5 days a week ?
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> > Ray
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> It's continually amazing to me that they hire people who care not one whit
> about the brick or what it means to people.
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> ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
In any company there are always some persons whose caring and concern goes
beyond the paycheck. If a large enough percentage care, then you may have a
great company. I believe that the early days at Apple were like that (possibly
are again).
My comment was not meant to degrade any of the fine folks at TLC, only to point
out the different perspective that we come from. AFOLs do what we do (generally)
out of love and personal satisfaction. There is no paycheck (so to speak). We
don't even get benefits (not even boxes of random parts swept up at the end of
the day :-) ). We just do it.
Ray
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| (...) It's a lot like some other hobbies that way. Today, I went out to my TRU to "help with the Lego shelves" but it had gone from bad to worse. They got 2001 sets. There was no place to put all of them, so sets were either crammed into the nooks (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: AFOLs as cheapskates
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| (...) It's continually amazing to me that they hire people who care not one whit about the brick or what it means to people. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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