It was 40 years ago, but I remember it well. Pinned to the door of my new office was a large caricature of a fierce looking Princeton Tiger (representing my alma mater) locked in a cage marked "received." Near the cage, but not too close, were two men. One was me, the purchasing agent. The other, the receiving inspection manager, exclaimed: "OK, you bought him-now you can inspect him." The posted caricature welcomed me to my new assignment as procurement quality manager at IBM's San Jose manufacturing facility. I had been purchasing manager before this lateral transfer was made. Told it was part of the company's "revitalization program" for middle managers, I initially viewed the move to be more punitive than educational.
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机译：那是40年前的事，但我记得很好。固定在我新办公室门上的是一张凶猛的漫画，一张凶猛的普林斯顿老虎（代表我的母校）锁在一个标有“已接收”的笼子中。在笼子附近，但不是太近，是两个人。一个是我，采购代理。另一人是接收检查经理，他大叫：“好，您买了他-现在可以检查他了。”张贴的讽刺漫画使我接受了我在IBM San Jose制造工厂担任采购质量经理的新任务。在进行横向转移之前，我曾是采购经理。据说这是公司针对中层管理人员的“振兴计划”的一部分，我最初认为此举比教育更具惩罚性。
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