Re: The Cost of Relativity

From: Double-A (double-a_at_hush.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: 18 Jul 2004 23:00:42 -0700

"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<2lvgfcFfllk9U4@uni-berlin.de>...
[snip]

> > Potter knows, but he ain't talkin'.
>
> Bendix was the most progressive and dynamic and profitable
> industrial company in the world, when I worked there.
>
> Unfortunately, a later president of Bendix named Agee
> shacked up with a Harvard grad named Cunningham,
> and destroyed the company.
> (Several years after I left.)

Interesting how those things go.

I once worked for Beatrice Foods. Perhaps you remember the "Man from
Beatrice" ads. The company was growing faster than a Roman Empire,
acquiring subidiaries right and left.

Then (shortly after I left) their Chairman Dutt began sleeping with
one of the junior executives and also giving her unwarranted
promotions. Then the *** hit the fan!

In the office where I had worked, when you entered the lobby you would
see this large portrait of Chairman Dutt on the wall with a spotlight
shining on it.

Then one morning, when the employees came to work, there was just the
spotlight shining on a bare wall!

The Chairman had been sacked, and soon after, the corporate empire
quickly crumbled, and subsidiaries were spun off faster than a dog
shaking off fleas!

In a way, it was good to see the top dog be held accountable for a
change, because in other companies I had worked for, the CEO's were
able to carry on with their peccadillos with impunity, while only the
underlings were punished and fired for their indiscretions.

Double-A
 

> Bendix manufactured many kinds of products,
> including computers, and they operated research labs
> that performed extremely high tech research on
> space, weapon systems, RADAR, medical devices, etc.
>
> As I posted before in the news groups,
> I used one of the first batch of CK-722
> point contact transistors to make a "BUG" for
> *** automating the sending of code.***

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