So why did Edison make the guy look like a fool?
Extending CAT5 cable
Jan 08, 2013
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Did Edision remove the support stem that took up part of the voulume, or is this just another urban legend?
What railroad do you work for?
William Sommerwerck frembragte:
That's the perogative of the boss/mentor/idol, to make the little guy look like a fool even if he is right.
Leif
Husk kørelys bagpå, hvis din bilfabrikant har taget den idiotiske
beslutning at undlade det.
Okay. But you're still taking the wrong lesson from the story.
I've never liked Edison. There's no question that he was an idiot, and a POS. There's the story that he hired the then-reputationless Tesla to re-engineer his generator design, promising him $50,000 for the work. When the work was done, he refused to pay Tesla, saying "You have a lot to learn about American business practice".
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Employers like that are the reason I've been self employed for the last 30 years. Lenny
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