Re: Sayonara, good people

[Crash Gordon® <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Getting names & addresses was a requirement for employment...we had to =
do it or risk losing our jobs. They actually counted receipts that had =
none and it went against you...somehow. I usually made ones up for =
people that wouldn't give them. I hated taking names/addresses.


"Mel" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
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> Re: Radio Shackup..Remember how nasty the clerks would be when you =
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> give them the last four digits of your phone number. They'd ask my =
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> I'd tell them, "Cash....Petty Cash". I'd give them the address of the =
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> I worked in Mexico and they couldn't deal with that.
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> Bob
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> "Crash Gordon=AE" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message=20
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> Yah, I managed a few Radio Shafts in my day.
> They had more freekin' ways to shaft store managers on commissions =
then you=20
> could shake a stick at.
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> "mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message=20
> news:leadnYSKnJO4vBzfRVn-iA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > radio shaft? hahahahahahahahaha, never heard that one
> > hope you wore gloves using that solder and of course you did have =
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> > hoods
> > then, didn't you?
> >
> > "Crash Gordon=AE" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:mG3ge.256$693.1602@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I'll never forget the first hands-on electronics class I took, it =
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> > the
> > stock room of Heathkit. I also took ham radio classes there and took =
my
> > first ham license test at the same place.
> >
> > In those days there was basically 3 sources of parts in my area; =
Heathkit,
> > Lafayette Radio and Radio Shaft.
> >
> > AH...there's nothing like the smell of solder flux in the morning!
> >
> >
> > "John O" <johno@!noSPAM!heathkit.com> wrote in message
> > news:FT1ge.462$Lu6.426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > It's the same company.  Their educational division has been =
around for
> > > > something like 30 years.  The consumer products division died,
> > presumably
> > > > due to competitive pressure from RatShak and such.
> > >
> > > Yep on the first part. The kits went away for lots of reasons, in =
no
> > > particular order:
> > >
> > > component integration
> > > Zenith Radio Corp (cash drain)
> > > total lack of creative marketing (catalog or nothing!)
> > > competition with new hobbies (computers)
> > > a lack of patience in kit builders (let's splash some solder on =
here)
> > > some crappy kits (HW-9, ID-5001, Hero 2000, etc)
> > > Zenith Data Systems (gov't contracts trumped all else)
> > > Groupe Bull (owned by the French gov't from 1990 to 1994...need I =
say
> > more?)
> > >
> > > -John O
> > >
> > >
> >
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