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Subject: Re: Is this company breaking the law with it's employees?
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 11:52:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 11:52:49 1986
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> 
> at my company, we have to work free for the first two years and
> live on only the moistened bread crumbs that our cruel managers throw at us.
> 

at least you had moistened bread crumbs, we had to eat the little holes
from the paper tape punch

> 
> we had to write our own operating system and compiler, hand assemble them,
> and then toggle them in using the front panel.  when we were finally allowed
> to write application programs, we had to write 1000 lines of working code
> a day while our managers stood behind us and beat us with sticks.
> 

at least you had a front panel, we had to manually set each core element

> 
> we had to get up every morning, 3 hours before we went to bed, and 
> work for 36 hours at a time.  at quitting time, our managers chopped
> us up into little pieces and danced while they sang halleluyah on our
> graves!!
> 

at least you had a bed, ...

> 
> ecstacy!!  we had to live in a shoebox.. in the middle of the road!!

at least you had a shoebox, AND a road!  What luxury!

Seriously, isn't this gossip a little out of place.  Naming company
names without substantiation.  The person who started this didn't even
say what company it was (was it just a story?).