Conference 7.286::digital

    
    we report two progressively profitable quarters back to back.

    ... The TFSO's stop.

    COMPAQ wants us to port OSF/1 onto their servers

    we no longer see VP's bailing out faster than they can appoint them.

    I don't have to discuss Digital's Financial strengths within the first
    5 minutes of a sales call

    
    ....our stock price is higher than RP's IQ.

    Who's in trouble...?
    
    
    
    <spoiler>
    
    
    
    
    Duuhhh...

    When Greyhawk gets the job of Marketing VP
    
    [no, its only a joke ......]
    

    	When we buy some more Olivetti stock...

    
    When we get Nasser back to straighten out this d*%# SPORKS issue!

    We start getting turkeys again...

    
    	-1 - Geez, I thought we had lots of those.
    
    		the Greyhawk

    We take bad news in stride, and not make it the entire focus of our
    day-to-day worklives.....
                             

    
    	Hey that's the ticket. The Greyhawk as Marketing VP. Would that
    look good on a resume, or what. Power, prestige, position, Mass...
    	Sorry, have to stay in Chicago. Oh, well...
    
    	But da' BEARS is going to surprise a lot of people this year.
    
    	Have fun - and all you marketing types can breathe a sigh of
    relief.
    
    		the Greyhawk

    When the BEARS win the SuperBowl again ... and when i can leave this
    place without a headache at the end of the day.

    We announce a three year plan...
    
    ...that actually lasts three years!

	When we define *first* a strategy and *then* implement it ...

	instead of elaborating a strategy that tries to explain what we just 
	have tried to implement ...

	Marc. 

    ...when the annual results don't need 20 pages of 'interpretation'.

    ...this thread is longer than the other one...

    The 4 VPs above me shrink to 2
    
    Mark
    

    ....the pay freeze melts.
    
    
    Ian.

    ... the UK re-introduces service awards
    
    Dave C.

    
    	When we get an InfoServer Client for OSF/1 and UNIX!
    
    				Malcolm.

    ...the Major League Baseball strike ends...

    .... when the Little Leaguers earn more than the Major Leaguers. :-)

    when you can look forward to tomorrow as if it were the
    beginning of a whole new career ...

    Isn't that what TFSO is all about....?

>   	When we get an InfoServer Client for OSF/1 and UNIX!

	When the inforserver use an *open* standard protocol ...

    When going to work seems like getting paid to do your hobby instead of
    work....

    The first manager who describes a PERSON as a "resource" is summarily
    terminated...
    
    They return ALL the benefits that have been taken away...
    
    ANNUAL salary reviews return...  and ACTUALLY GET DONE...  and actually
    provide a MEANGINGFUL raise...
    
    The headhunter DOESN'T call and say "I've spoken to 100 candidates and
    not one is willing to even apply for your company!"
    
    You run an ad in the paper for weeks and get MORE than 2 applications..
    
    An ALPHA workstation shows up on my desk and ISN'T UNIQUE...
    
    A good PC workstation WITH SOFTWARE shows up on my desk and ISN'T UNIQUE...
    
    A laptop with accessories shows up on my desk...
    
    Those BENEFITS that became tools when they wanted to take them away are
    given back to the field...
    
    Management realizes that to get "BEST IN CLASS" you HAVE TO PAY FOR
    "BEST IN CLASS" people...  and TREAT them like "BEST IN CLASS" people...
    
    Trust and confidence in management returns...
    
    ABSOLUTE truth becomes a VALUABLE, DEMANDED commodity again instead of
    a reason for getting TFSO'd...

		when a dec pc keyboard 'feels' like a vt52!

.... when a "temporary" contract doesn't go longer than three years with no 
hope of becoming a permanent employee blessed with benefits

    ...everyone that makes a contribution to this company is rewarded
    accordingly.

    
        .... when you tell people you work for "DEC-oops_Digital"
        and they say: "Great, can you help me get a job there", 
        not "I'm so sorry" ....
    

    re -1
    
    ... A priest I met just yesterday, when I told him who I worked for,
    said that a large part of his flock were Deccies too, and that he
    prayed for them. God on our side ?..

   .. when few analysts dare contest our stupid decisions

   .. when your resume gets out of date

   .. when going to DECUS is a perk   

    
    When you can order simple office supplys to do your job, post it notes
    the downfall of Dec I mean Digital.
    
    Mark

    When the latest new organization designed to return us to
    profitability, stays in place more than 3 months.
    
    

When most of the employee population truly believes in a recovery as much
as some formerly critical analysts...
    

    re .29
    >> When going to work seems like getting paid to do your hobby instead of
    >> work....
    
    It still is for me
    
    Alan

    When we stop advertising Intel processors...
    
    When all Digital PC adverts simply mention Alpha...

    When the smiles and nods to familiar faces as we pass in the hallways
    means more than, "I'm glad you made it through another round."

    When I only see 2 or 3 resumes on the printer per day
    

    ... ESPP will let us earn 33 % from Digital shares (it seems it could
    happen this time!)

    
    
    ..."Life after Digital" refers to retirement instead of being TFSOd or
    jumping ship to save one's self.  
    ...people you meet at parties and such stop asking why Digital doesn't
    make PCs.
    ...talking about the strength of our balance sheet doesn't sound childish
    anymore.
    ...this notesfile reports more good news than bad!
    
    M. 
    
    

    
    ... looking at a conference title 'Digital Investing' and you
        no longer consider it an oxymoron.
    
    jc

    
    BP becomes interested in local politics...

            "Digital Today" comes out every day ... or, 
            gets changed back to "Digital This Week"

>            "Digital Today" comes out every day ... or, 
>            gets changed back to "Digital This Week"

... which came out biweekly.

        Re .44
        
>    ... ESPP will let us earn 33 % from Digital shares (it seems it could
>    happen this time!)
        
        Sorry, I don't understand this one.  Are you implying there is
        a 33% limit on the share scheme earnings? I can't find this
        documented in the prospectus.
        
        Ian.

    A new version of CHAMP is installed, and it works!
    
    Dave Zaniewski

    not sure if this note fits here, it's about the remnents of DEC in
    today's Digital.
    
    I manage a major customer roll-out program in Asia/Pacific.  My
    customer is very market responsive and moves rapidly at opportunities
    as they arise (something I spend LOTS of time explaining internally,
    but that's not the point).
    
    Unfortunately, we are not always able to predict/forecast their
    equipment requirements accurately.
    
    Recently we got caught with a major implementation project which
    required over 100 LA75 printers.  There were none (read 0) in stock and
    a 4 month (read 160 day) lead time.
    
    Customer wanted to start taking delivery immediately.
    
    While working the materials issues with the appropriate people, I sent
    an E-Mail to everyone in Australia for any LA75s that could be CC
    Transferred, loaned, stolen . . .
    
    The response was overwhelming.  While I did stur up a fair number of
    surplus equipment that was simply sitting in corners, I also had a LOT
    of people offer to lend me their printer for a few weeks to get over
    the lead time hump.  "Sure, I use my printer.  But your customer's need
    is more important.  Just make sure I get it back when you get the new
    ones in."
    
    DEC's not dead.  You just have to look a little harder sometimes.
    
    bill

    You'll know there is a light at the end of the tunnel when....
    
    ...A large trade magazine that focuses on Digital - namely Digital
    Review.. which announced this summer that they were changing their
    editorial format to 'focus on Digital's strengths and successes' - 
    stops shrinking in size and begins to grow again.
    
    Publius

    When Harvard Comm Health Plan states the it's rates will not
    change for 1995...
    ...but digital increases the amount that it charges it's employees

    
    Digital announces that it will move to Silicon Valley
    and join the real world of computing.

    
    
    when the light at the end of the tunnel is the front door as you leave
    due to the fact that your facility is shutting down........
    
    				Fonz

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