Up to roughly the mid-1970s, even ordinary mortals, HP employees, could
fly first class if you were traveling on company business for HP and the
flight was longer than 3 hours. Even I, an lowly process engineer,
included in a shopping trip "back east" to Boston and Philly, got to fly
first class. HP sent five employees on this shopping trip—God only knows
what it cost. That was then, when HP had more cash than it knew what to
do with.
J.
On 2/14/2016 4:48 PM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
I was never with HP but I bought (using Hughes Aircraft and US
government money) megabucks worth of HP Instruments. The whole
facility bought millions more. The local Tucson HP sales office had a
salesman assigned just to Hughes. They showered us with catalogs, app
notes, training programs, seminars and I even traveled a few times to
attend programs elsewhere. We paid for our own airfare and hotel, but
breakfasts, lunches, dinners, girly shows, etc were on HP. In
discussing travel expense reporting with the rep, unlike Hughes where
every penny had to be accounted for, he said his reporting consisted
of counting the money in his wallet when he left and counting it again
when he got back. The difference was his expense.
Wes N7WS
On 2/14/2016 4:05 PM, Jeremy Nichols wrote:
I was with HP 1972-79, when it was still a great company. The
vertical integration was such that there was a joke about HP plant
site landscaping, which always seemed to feature ferns. The reply was
, "We're making our own coal!" We not only had packaging engineers
but made our own cabinets. We made our own integrated circuits; I
made the photomasks for those ICs in the Santa Clara Division (02,
the old Frequency&Time Division) in building 51-Lower, next to the
line where the counters were wired. Good times, free coffee.
Jeremy
N6WFO
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