ROFLMAO!!! This is a typical sort of individual that
IBM would hire or
have on it's staff! Papows - sounds like an explosion! ROFLMAO!
THANK GOD, he is has a different family name (Last name) than
I
do!!! But none the less terribly funny! And not very good
PR for IBM!!!
John, Roger, it seems like you two need to have a pow-wow
here.
Not to be confused with Papows, ROFLMAO!!!!
Nick Patience wrote:
Sorry I just couldn't resist this, there's just too many similarities. Maybe Mr Auerbach could take time out to look into a certain other Jeffrey.....Regards,April 29, 1999
IBM's Lotus Chief Gets Lots of Mileage Out of a Dubious Marine Corps Past
By JON G. AUERBACH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Jeffrey Papows cuts a colorful figure in the software world-blunt-spoken, dynamic, ready for action. As president of IBM's Lotus Development Corp. unit, he is charged with fighting off mighty Microsoft, and to do it he will jet across the world at a moment's notice to woo a customer or don the garb of an aviator or martial artist in a promotional stunt.
Some colleagues and customers say they are especially wowed by what the 45-year-old Mr. Papows has told them about his life -- his rise from orphan to daring Marine flier who burst an eardrum training for the Gulf War and who once saved himself and a buddy by hurling a live grenade out of a trench.
And by his generosity: Some colleagues tell of being moved as Mr. Papows told of aiding the widow of a flier who died ejecting from a disabled F-4 Phantom jet in which he and Mr. Papows were flying.
Adding to the impressive package is the Ph.D. from Pepperdine University, to say nothing of the black belt in tae kwon do.
But when the stories of Mr. Papows's credentials and derring-do are subjected to scrutiny, some problems arise.
The Marine Corps says Mr. Papows was an air-traffic controller. He never served as an aviator, it says after a thorough search of military records.
The records show, too, that he left the Marines as a first lieutenant, not as a captain, the rank shown on a 1997 Papows resume.
Mr. Papows's doctorate isn't from Pepperdine. It is from an unaccredited correspondence school. He doesn't have a tae kwon do black belt.
Nor was he orphaned. His parents live a short distance from his home in Massachusetts.
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