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In 1984, Perlman took a job as a [[customer service]]/billing technician at [[AT&T]] in an office that housed approximately 300 employees. The office phone system reported the number of calls each employee would take per hour and staff managers reviewed this information on a weekly basis and compared it to employee’s seniority to determine when lunches and breaks would be allotted. Perlman went to his manager and suggested he could write a program to automate this process; something that took each manager a full day per week to do—his program would reduce the task to 15 minutes. He was given an office and a computer to build this application.<ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>
In 1986, he was hired by Stephen Douglas (Redhead Encyclopedia, Successclick.com) to fix the database of Video Guide Magazine, listing thousands of movies for rent and purchase. From there, he worked with Douglas on building his own design group and working on database programming as a consultant. Perlman then exceeded in this area and was hired by 4th Dimension (ACIUS) and was considered an expert for Macintosh database design.
==Career==
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