Reply to post: Re: And don't work too fast either!

In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up

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Re: And don't work too fast either!

A friend's brother got a summer job whilst a student doing some kind of boring data manipulation. He realised that it was easily automatable and spent a day or so writing a programme to do it. The end was result was that he and all the other temps got rapidly given the boot...

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