Re: IFF IBM's at the Olympics....

["Paul Nelson" <p_nelson-br@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got the same "invitation" in 1996. A friend of mine there works for one of
the guys who headed up the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee. He had been
assigned by his boss to "volunteer" his time. I got invited to spend 6 weeks
there without pay or reimbursement of expenses. It's definitely a poor man's
endeavor.

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
877-777-2729 Office
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: IFF IBM's at the Olympics....


> I'm not up to speed on "how that works" but I remember getting a letter
> from IBM asking if I would be willing to donate as much as a month of my
> time to helping out in the "Olympic Effort" in system support,etc,etc.
>
> They ended up pulling IBM employees out of slots for months at a time
> to handle this fairly huge network... This was no "minor" event that
> could
> be slammed together with a few spread sheets and a couple of laptops..
>
> I got the impression that NOBODY gets paid for anything... You must pay
> the I.O.C. for the privilege of "being there".....(I been wrong before)
>
> "James W. Kilgore" wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, this is an open competitive bid situation.  Each supplier
probably gives
> > away the farm in order to gain bragging rights.  Write of the loss as
> > advertising expense.
> >
> > This time around Sun won the bid.
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