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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 11:20:45 2006

I'll get that old curmudgeon to come around - if you folks will just throw
in breakfast and lunch, along with the apartments etc., Maybach, etc. etc.,
I think wages might become a non-issue. ;-) On the other hand, Ted can be
tough. :-)


On 2/1/06 2:07 PM, "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Don't make your reservations yet, B.D. Better talk to your co-workers
> first - we're pretty far apart on our negotiations. Ted wants the world and
> "The Company" wants you to work for free. I even offered him privately to
> get you guys the Imperial Suites on Qeen Mary 2; Ted declined, he wants a
> private jet for each of you. The noive!            ;-)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-) - now paid
> mercenaries!
> 
> 
>> 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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