[net.legal] Is what this company doing really legal ??.

miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller) (01/31/86)

On article <2044@bmcg.UUCP>, bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) writes:

> On what do you make your assumption? I've been working at Burroughs for
> over a year now and have noticed nothing but a positive, highly professional
> attitude here. 
> I have never been required to sign ANY papers saying I will pay Burroughs
> money for any reason. 
> Currently I am enrolled in college to get another degree and Burroughs is
> paying a large chunk of the cost, NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
> Next time you make a blanket statement like the one above, big dave, use
> your big head instead of your big mouth.

> Bob Nebert   sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn

   You're right Bob, I probably shouldn't have made that statement, so openly,
   on the USENET about Burroughs. The thruth is that I have no facts to back 
   up my statement insofar that I personally do not of anyone who has been
   subjected to the previously mentioned working conditions by Burroughs Corp.
   What I do know is that my statement was not intended to be a serious one,
   nor was it itended to hurt no one's "company" pride; obviously you missed
   the point here !!.
   What I also do know, and you don't, is that I also did worked for Burroughs
   in the past, for the same group I believe you work for now(MCG,ex MCO),
   under what could be easylly be termed as highly negative and unprofessional
   environment, where my department mngr took advantage of my then inmature,
   and ignorant job market experience to really run me through the mill for
   peanuts !!. When I finally wised up and quit from the dammed place I found
   that my same skills earned me a 57% increase in pay,in a much more positive
   working environment, somewhere else.
   Things might have changed by now at Burroughs-MCG,and you wheren't working
   there at the time, but if you ask around to any of the old timmers what was 
   it like there in the days right after George Cone left they'll be able to
   tell you what low company morale is all about. That is of course, big bob,
   if there is any people left there from those days, which I believe there is.
   So maybe it was rather unappropiate for me to make such a comment, on the
   net, about a company such as Burroughs Corp., as it was rather unappropiate
   for you to have rattled off your "big mouth" at me, in the net, without
   fully understanding my motives or my reasons. I hope that next time when you
   feel that something that I have said in the net ruffles your feathers, you
   will be kind enough to reply to me your concerns with a "r" on your keyboard.
   I,m sure we'll end saving a lot of phone bill money that way, plus we'll
   spare our fellow netters from the griefs of having to put up with discussions
   like this one.

				   Yours truly, BIG DAVE.

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