From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <018701c47bf2$0efefaf0$8afb7d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] rc mystery Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:15:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d299d524-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 yeah, a company knocked me back for 2 2-3km cab fares 'cos this international comms corporation had located their paris office some 30km to the south of paris. no way was i gonna pay for cab, if i could find one, after heading 30km out into the sticks for non-existant jobs. i don't have a car & nor do i want one. they couldn't even see that sending someone to pick me up at the nearest SNCF [rail] station would be a cheap solution. conclusion: these people are not serious.