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- Date: Tue, 12 May 92 12:57:56 PDT
- From: Randy Lindsey <lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com>
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- It is not uncommon in large companies to require an annual "payout", in which
- each employee picks up their paycheck in person, displaying ID. I think this
- is to guard against payroll padding.
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- At the facility where I'm doing a project, all 1,500 employees received a memo
- ordering them to report to the cafeteria for their annual "peyote". Peyote
- appeared several times in the memo, and even in the title line! Eventually
- one of my colleagues ran "payout" through the spelling checker, and sure
- enough it suggested "peyote" as the alternative.
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- Perhaps the spelling checker writers are junior staff with closer ties to their
- college counter-cultural days than to corporate terminology...
- Randy Lindsey
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