At 12:43 PM 11/3/97 -0500, Pat Shugart wrote:
Pat and others,

To be fair this has also happened to me but in reverse. The only difference
is that the American customs agents are much more inclined to shove a baton
or .357 magnum into your nether regions! :^) Unless it was a Domtar
conspiracy because I worked for the Fine Papers division way back when!

Neil "it's already been a long week and it is only Monday" Armstrong
Programmer, R & D
Robelle

>When I used to work for Domtar Gypsum (a Canadian-based company)
>before Georgia-Pacific bought them out, I used to have to travel to
>Canada all the time to set up the LANs and configure the PCs. Never tell
>customs you're going over there to do work! Tell them you're attending a
>meeting. Otherwise, they spirit you off into one of the interogation rooms
>and demand to know why you're taking away Canadian jobs -- then they
>hit you with a "contractor" charge. It didn't seem to matter that I worked
>for a Canadian company.
>