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Subject: 
Re: Lego Breaks
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:42:52 GMT
Original-From: 
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@fozztexx%nospam%.com>
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``I had to make an office rule,'' he told Fortune Magazine last
summer. ``No Lego playing during work hours.''

Well at my company it was the complete opposite. About half of my
Lego collection is out there now. I didn't want to bring it there,
but after 2 weeks of the company president insisting I bring it
out, I finally caved.

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Chris Osborn                      Full System, Inc.
fozztexx@fullsystem.com           2160 Jefferson St., #240
http://www.fullsystem.com/        Napa, CA 94559
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  Re: Lego Breaks
 
(...) And what exactly are "work hours" anyway? The software engineers in my company work well beyond traditional work hours, so its hard to say they can't play with Legos between 9 and 5 if they are also working to midnight often :) -Ben ---...--- (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Lego Breaks
 
Ben Wyckoff (12:48 PM 08.17.2000) wrote: >At 9:42 AM -0700 8/17/2000, Chris Osborn wrote: >> > ``I had to make an office rule,'' he told Fortune Magazine last >> > summer. ``No Lego playing during work hours.'' >> >>Well at my company it was the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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" Martin Eberhard, a toy aficionado and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup NuvoMedia, had to put his foot down when he caught his entire engineering department -- who were supposed to be designing an electronic book -- sitting on the floor playing (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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