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Subject: [Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-) - now paid mercenaries!
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Feb 1 10:10:46 2006

When do we leave? :-)


On 2/1/06 12:50 PM, "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Just noticed a typo in my post. I meant that the Company will engage not a
> heater (chauffer) but a chauffeur to conduct your Maybach 62
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-) - now paid
> mercenaries!
> 
> 
>> Now waitaminit, mon tres cher ami Ted, we need to do a little negotiating.
>> 
>>> Seth mon ami,
>>> In the Netherlands is quite OK, no problem at all, good food and beer!
>>> ;-) Now about the accommodation? The requirements are 3 penthouse suites
>> 
>> OK.
>> 
>>> with running everything, maids, butlers, cooks
>> 
>> NO. Not acceptable. One maid to do all three penthouses on a regular
>> rotating basis; one cook to do meals for the three of you and your
>> respective and respectable spouses, mates and others; sorry, you shall
>> have to breakfast, (lunch on your own) and dine together, though each of
>> you (you three, this does not include your respective and respectable
>> spouses, mates and others) is permitted a butler, Tina has a choice
>> between butler and lady-in-waiting.
>> 
>> Again, as I have priced out operating costs vs. potential income from this
>> Kodak-hating crowd, we can only afford one chauffer and one
>> chauffer-driven Maybach 6.2. HOWEVER, in the graciousness of our hearts,
>> each of you WILL be allowed a company-paid personal car; to this end we
>> have arranged with Cadillac to supply three supercharged 4-cam V-8  STS-V
>> saloon cars. If you decline, you may choose alternative personal
>> transport: a boat on the canals.
>> 
>>> You might consider this as our "work flow time." ;-) Absolutely never on
>>> Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning nor Wednesday morning
>> 
>> Rejected out-of-hand. You will be allowed to say to management:
>> "Jamais le dimanche." C'est tout.
>> 
>>> Now considering no mention has been made of, shall we say...
>>> "compensation I'll leave this for the moment to give you a short time to
>>> mull it over, which I'm sure you'll return with an extremely generous
>>> offer of wages, bonuses and stock options.
>> 
>> Wot, are you outta your bl**ding mind? You guys get a vacation in dreamy
>> Nederland, all expenses covered - and lavishly - and you want to be PAID
>> into the bargain? You should consider yourselves very lucky indeed that we
>> don't charge you for the opportunity.
>> 
>> The issue of income taxes I leave to your collective senses of duty and
>> honor (assuming such to exist) and to the resourcefulness of Internal &
>> Inland Revenue.
>> 
>> Further deponent sayeth not.
>> 
>> S.
>> 
>> 
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