honey@down.FUN (code 101) (07/11/84)
we have it on good authority that all those bell labs droids out there are faced with 0% raises through next year. of course, the structure of raises at the labs is so bizarre that ritchie will continue to drag home yet larger bags o' bucks, but the general trend is grim. could somebody please gateway att.workplace into this newsgroup? i'm sure it's FUN (as opposed to ARPA?). yow! north/honey ps to mark: i didn't mean it. pps to chuqui: i just can't help tearing down your hard work. ppps to leei: yow!
honey@down.FUN (07/11/84)
according to a well placed source, the big talk on att.workplace is whether chuqui brown makes $700k or $1M. (i side with alan driscoll -- and that's just his "on the books" rake.) another hot topic is pilferage from the labs -- i get to grinnin' every time i think about someone walking out with martin levy's 750! yow! what a kick! north/honey
jhall@ihuxu.UUCP (John R. Hall-"the samurai MTS") (07/19/84)
Here's the real poop about what's going down in att.workplace. Don't believe all that talk you hear about salaries. The discussion has been pretty evenly divided between two topics: 1) the recent casuality during the new break-dancing club's demonstration over lunch here at IH - those head spins aren't as easy as they look 2) speculation about the Fotomat booth being erected in the main driveway entrance. Some people think that it's really a guard booth... There was one nut who quoted some salary figure from a annual report or something, but he is a real jerk and has been disposed of. -- --John R. Hall, ...ihnp4!ihuxu!jhall
honey@down.FUN (07/19/84)
Our spies inform us that att.workplace is just *loaded* with hints on how the long-distance company can save BIG BUCKS. Submitted for your approval (you can go have your nervous breakdown now, Rich): Let's get our act together and stop losing those multimillion and billion dollar law suits - we certainly have access to the same resources as IBM has. Stop manufacturing equipment and products that last forever. There is a lot of room to still be better than the competition. Place some controls on travel to meetings & conferences, and on travel expenses (especially meals). AT&T's corporate planes can be filled with employees who are scheduled to travel to the same destination as the executives who use them. Totally res ipso loquitor stuff, eh? If you're not nodding your head vigorously in agreement (or convulsing with stupefaction), you're not taking life seriously enough. Get with the program, brutha! Our roving correspondents also indicate that Arno Penzias (VP for research and Nobel laureate) has been going around to the research centers giving uplifting pep (sorry, Pat) talks. Aside from his truly inspirational predictions of 20% across the board budget reductions and the imminence of salary cuts (see base note concerning the salary freeze unless you're running B news in which case, well, ask jett!brian for a copy), we have the following contributions to science: All the experimental psychologists were told they have two years to leave. As Arno put it "We all know that some of us here aren't really welcome any more." (This is n-th hand, so get out your granos of salis.) An astrophysicist commented that if Arno stops by and asks him why his job is good for Bell Labs he doesn't have an answer. (Remember when Arno was an astrophysicist?) There is a "leave the company" incentive program for bureaucrats, but not for researchers (although this may be to the Labs' advantage in the long run). Finally, there is this n-th hand colloquy: Q: Mr. Penzias, Mr. Penzias, does this mean we can't do academic research at Bell Labs anymore? A: Harrumph! Academic research is best left to academia! Why did I ever leave? Peter (Not Tony! Not Robinson!)