Maule Driver wrote:

I just watched a ridiculous airline commercial where 'the boss'
is looking for 'Bob' who he saw earlier this morning. The office staff
tells him that 'Bob' doesn't really work here but flew back home to
Chicago an hour ago. Just like he does several times a week to supply
the 'software' for the office. What planet were they on when they came
up with that one?

Maybe the same one on which a friend of mine lives. Her home is near Morristown,
NJ. Every Monday, she drives to work in Piscataway. That evening, she hops a
plane to her other job in Birmingham. Friday evening, she flies back home.
United loves her. No, she's not typical.

More typical are the people who hop shuttle flights between cities several times
a week. Quite a few BellSouth employees and contractors shuttle back and forth
between B'ham and Atlanta for meetings. I know other people here who spend a lot
of time flying down to DC during the week.

And if you think it's unlikely that someone would make a trip just to supply the
software, we did a lot of that at Telcordia. It's cheaper in the long run to fly
over a skilled installer than to ship a tape or several CDs and have the
customer botch up the installation of a large system.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.