[LINK] Dilbert and the "employee locator device"

[Frank O'Connor]

Oh Yeah,

Thirty years back, in the 'bad old days' when I was still working, 
they gave me a mobile brick so they could keep in contact when I was 
at court. The bloody thing weighed about a kilo, had an aerial, and 
was something I simply turned off once I was out of the office. (They 
never did manage to figure out why that puppy wouldn't work as soon 
as I went out the door.)

Anyway, at the time I never figured that the damn things would become 
ubiquitous over the next thirty years ... I mean, who wanted to be 
contactable at all times? I came from the generation that found the 
phone to be more of an annoyance than a convenience

So they shrank in size, and they kept offering me new ones at work 
and I kept refusing, telling them they only paid me for 8 hours ... 
and though I did get a few over time, I bought them and I never let 
the work suits know the number.

So there you go. I would never have predicted the success of the 
mobile, and would have simply seen it as a gadget without purpose. Of 
course when Telstra started ripping down the phone boxes and made 
external public land-lines harder to find they did become something I 
needed but until then I simply saw them as 'employee locator devices' 
like Dilbert's spiky haired boss.

Yet another example of O'Connor being way 'behind the wave'.

					Regards,
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At 11:45 AM +1000 28/5/11, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
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