[s-cars] Audifans: We're hiring!

[Eric Phillips]

Mike, that was one of the best posts ever on the S-car list.  Bravo.


> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:25:56 -0500
> From: Mike Fitton <rfitton at vt.edu>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] [urq] Audifans: We're hiring!
> To: "j.koenig" <koenigj at comcast.net>
>
> Well...
>
> First the earth cooled.  And then the dinosaurs came.  But they got too
> big and fat and died out.  And then the Arabs came, and they drove
> Mercedes-Benzes.
>
> Haha, no seriously...this one guy started a project and he asked a lot
> of people to help and a lot of people (including me) made the initial
> moves to help, but then a lot of people (including me) had a lot of
> other obligations come up because that guy started this project right
> around Thanksgiving and that's everyone's busy time of year, be it
> family stuff or working 70-90 hours per week stuff (I fall in the
> latter), so then when almost nobody contributed to this project or
> changed his diaper on his schedule he got really cranky and said
> everyone who hadn't contributed couldn't be in the club anymore, no ifs
> ands or butts, and if they don't like it they should contribute
> something post haste even though their lives didn't change just because
> he sent out a nastygram so a lot of people got offended and started
> eflipping him off and then dan simoes got involved and tried to make a
> compromise and then the other dude kind of apologized but also kind of
> didn't and about 20% of the way through all this it somehow spilled over
> into all the above lists (see the cc: field above) even though it's
> super annoying and is a waste of everyone's delete button which i
> imagine is also on a tight schedule these days and now while i can't
> speak for anyone else i feel like it's so disgusting and all i need is
> my good old s-car-list anyway because those guys are pretty chill and
> will tolerate my endless sentences about hooking up o-scopes to
> servotronic wires after i look at the clock at see a little after 5pm
> and think to myself gosh i've been up since 10pm yesterday so let him
> unfreakinsubscribe me if that's what makes him hard
>
> -Cheers!
> Mike done apologizing for spending all my free time pretty much asleep
> Fitton