[rescue] Re: So here are the before pictures...

[Ken Hansen]

Bellcore actually had to have company-wide classes on the concept of being
for-profit! (Bellcore was a research facility co-owned by the 7 baby bells,
each with a slightly varying stake in the company, based on territory/region
size.) All our work was directed at the projects our "owners" wanted to
fund, and all projects were "at cost." Any cost underruns were funneled back
to the clients as a refund/credit towards subsequent projects...

SAIC should never have bought Bellcore - I loved working there, but it was a
throw-back to the pre-breakup Bell System...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Seamans" <marks at hrsparc3.corp.sbc.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: [rescue] Re: So here are the before pictures...


> >Bellcore was great, but when SAIC came into town, it stopped being fun.
I
> > made 20% better pay in my last job, but I had to wear a suit and trave
*at
> > least* one week a month - a lot of trave if you have a two year old at
>
> Ken:
>
> As a former SAIC employee, I have to agree.  They made a game out of
> trying to pay you (me, us) the least amount of money they could get
> by with.  Example:  I was making X dollars as a UNIX admin and was told
> the increases one year would be bonus only, not an increase in salary 8-(
> Then an accidental email went out that said so and so, (a peecee M$ Word
> installer) was making 7K more than me!!  Imagine my reaction!
>
> ------------
> Mark Seamans
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> UNIX is friendly.  It's just selective about who it's friends are.
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