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Article #288Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
From: Lawrence McKnight
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 22:35
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 22:35
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In <D2ECC3.2A5@dcs.ed.ac.uk> mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Michael De La Rue) writes: > >>I can't imagine many people with shiney new CS degrees looking for work asking >>at the interview for that new job, "oh by the way I don't want the job if this >>is a Unisys shop". Now maybe in the UK jobs are plentiful enough that recent >>grads can pick and choose at will, but in the states, only the cream of the >>crop get enough job offers to pick and choose based on whether or not they are >>upset over .GIF files. > >Or in-other-words, if you end up working for Unisys in future, it's >because you weren't good enough to avoid it. People will bear this in >mind when it comes to employing people who have worked for Unisys, and >therefore no one even intelligent will work for them. Therefore >Unisys will collapse slightly sooner than otherwise. Great is all I >can say. > > > > > Will you post your employment history, so we can avoid companies which would hire you? -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Larry McKnight...........
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