On 28 February 2012 14:59, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:43, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
Was it not AT&T that was the corporate home
of Scott Adams, who later
dramatized his terrible experiences of bureaucracy & incompetence in
the Dilbert comic strip & has been doing so for about 20 years now?
I thought he was a Pacific Bell engineer, but that's coming from my increasingly
fuzzy memory and may well be wrong. One could always look it up.
I guess Pac Bell *was* AT&T, but I think they were broken apart by then.
Thanks all for the clarification. It appears I was off target, albeit
not totally misguided.
Amazing as it may seem to Americans, we citizens of the rest of the
world don't have AT&T - any of it - or Sprint or Verizon or Cingular,
so it's all a bit confusing...
(Mind you, saying that, with the modern climate of megacorporations
who own chunks of one another, I am sure their tentacles pervade even
the British market.)
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