Back in the early nineties my previous employer ended up in trouble because the venture capital firm that owned a majority stake in it went bankrupt. The company itself was just fine, so the management staged an emergency buyout. As part of the complicated shenanigans it was necessary to move all the assets and staff piecemeal into a new placeholder company.
Since the company makes extremely high-end high-tech domestic AV equipment, the Chairman wanted, with intentional irony to call the placeholder the Imperial Gramaphone and Wireless company. Apparently this isn't permitted now we lack an empire, so it became the Digital Gramophone and Wireless company.
One day the Marketing Director strolled up to one of my colleagues who was tinkering with a DAB module. "What's that?" "Oh, it's a digital wireless."
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Back in the early nineties my previous employer ended up in trouble because the venture capital firm that owned a majority stake in it went bankrupt. The company itself was just fine, so the management staged an emergency buyout. As part of the complicated shenanigans it was necessary to move all the assets and staff piecemeal into a new placeholder company.
Since the company makes extremely high-end high-tech domestic AV equipment, the Chairman wanted, with intentional irony to call the placeholder the Imperial Gramaphone and Wireless company. Apparently this isn't permitted now we lack an empire, so it became the Digital Gramophone and Wireless company.
One day the Marketing Director strolled up to one of my colleagues who was tinkering with a DAB module. "What's that?" "Oh, it's a digital wireless."
Well I found it amusing, anyway.
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