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From: billw@felix.UUCP (Bill Weinberger)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs
Subject: Re: Is this company breaking the law with it's employees?
Message-ID: <852@felix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 12:32:00 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.852
Posted: Tue Feb  4 12:32:00 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 09:28:06 EST
References: <108@graffiti.UUCP> <1967@gondor.UUCP> <1009@loral.UUCP> <452@faron.UUCP>
Reply-To: billw@felix.UUCP (Bill Weinberger)
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Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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Keywords: Burroughs, EDS, employee
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Summary: Burroughs rebuttal

In article <452@faron.UUCP> rjd@faron.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis) writes:

>In article <1009@loral.UUCP> miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller) writes:

>>If this company is not EDS, then it sure sounds like Burroughs to me !!.
>>
>>				  BIG DAVE.
>>
>
>I would really like to know a few things.  First, what company did the
>orignal posting refer to?  Second, is EDS really as bad as all that?  Third,
>is Burroughs?
>
>I'm a senior graduating from MIT this year and I have two interviews
>scheduled this week with -- you guessed it -- EDS and Burroughs.  I'd
>appreciate comments from people who know what it's like to work for these
>companies.  Please mail to me unless you think it's of general interest, in
>which case you should go ahead and post your reply.

No, Burroughs is not at all like that.  I don't know why 'Big Dave' is maligning
the company by including it in the same category as EDS.  I just left Burroughs 
after 2.5 satisfactory years, and I can say that they are a pretty decent 
company to work for.  The only reason I left was to join a smaller company doing
more state-of-the-art work.  Burroughs is very good to its employees as large 
companies go, both in terms of benefits (insurance, holidays, etc.) and trying 
to find satisfying work for them to do.  

I have heard a little about EDS and think this is the company the original 
poster may have been referring to.  Other things I have heard about EDS include:
no beards allowed on men, fairly strict dress code, etc.  I, personally, would 
not want to work for a company like this (except I did work at Disneyland, but 
they had good reason for their rules).

Regards,

Bill Weinberger (billw@felix)

[This is obviously only my opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinions
or policies of FileNet Corporation.  etc. ]