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Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) was an old, established company.
Like many other American companies, how long you had been with the
company was a big deal. People literally wore it on their sleeves. Actually,
they wore it on their ties and wrists. Employees received a ve-year tiepin;
at twenty years, you got a watch; and you may have received a new tiepin
at ten and een years. ey wore them like sergeants wore hashmarks
on their uniforms in the military. When people introduced people, they
told how long they had been there: “is is Jim, he’s been here seventeen
years, and Bob, he’s been here twenty-two years. How long have you been ...