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From: miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller)
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Subject: Re: Re: Is this company breaking the law with it's employees?
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 13:22:38 EST
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> For all those interested netters, we do quite a lot of business with
> Burroughs and consequently know many of their people (employees),
> I have never heard a bad word about working for Burroughs (with
> the one customary exception:  Last year Burroughs involuntarily
> retired a few thousand employees; I am sure that these people may
> have some negative comments about Burroughs; after all some of them
> were given no notice of the situation.)
>                              Mark Reina

Someone in that situation in LA that had worked at Burroughs for a while had
previously told me how good they were to work for, was in that lay-off and got
10 weeks severance pay, which is not too shabby.  They did give some of the
employees a choice of moving to their new location (a ways down the coast).
When I interviewed with Burroughs, they clearly stated that they would have
new hires initially spend some time in the "trenches" doing trouble-shooting
and systems programming, but that would be for one year and you could choose
where to go from there.  Although this wasn't the job for me, it does seem
like a fairly decent place to work.
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