IMHO it is not off-topic. It is topic-less. Phil met some guy in
Frankfurt. They had some coffee, even beer. He (they unnamed guy) was
traveling by a train.
Veery exciting.
Did I miss something ?
Oh I forgot, my English is bad, my German even worse, however I vaguely
recollect that Hauptbahnhof is rather German word for railway station,
the main one. It's not English, is it ?
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Phil Payne wrote:
Fierce but fair?
An offline comment (it's Friday) and I think it's pertinent.
I fought IBM tooth and nail from 1978 to 1992. Throughout that time I
found IBM and all other
competitors - at management levels - to be fair and honest people. Some
might find it amazing,
but I think I can claim (some) true friends at most management levels in
all PCMs. There are
even one or two within IBM who find the aßhole business distressing.
There were a lot of good guys out there.
Niggles - yes - but mostly at the fringes. When you got to the policy
people - no problems.
I had several occasions when something IBM Confidential (real, not
trivial) turned up. This
was in Germany, in the 1980s. We called IBM Stuttgart - Industry
Relations - and the response
was always the same: "Don't touch it, we will collect it".
To my shame, I've forgotten his name. An IBM "lawyer" used to come up
to Frankfurt by train
and I would collect him at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. "Herr Dr
Something." I'm really
ashamed at not remembering his name. Always had a pipe in his mouth -
never to my experience
lit it. Immensely respected within our organisation. We drove to our
offices, he opened his
legal-type floppy leather briefcase and dropped the documents in, we
shook hands, coffee was
offered and accepted, we set off for the Hauptbahnhof and stopped off
for a beer on the way.
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