[LINK] Dilbert and the "employee locator device"

[Ivan Trundle]

On 29/05/2011, at 1:13 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> On 29/05/2011 11:56 AM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I think it is a reference to geo-location services - rather than being 
> able to contact the employee by voice.

Nope: it goes deeper than that. Check the 'send yourself a text and I'll read it later' barb at the end.

iT