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What's It Like Working For Worldcom?
Tetch asks: "I work for a multinational IT company which seems likely to transfer its "network services" team to (MCI-)Worldcom under the terms of a business arrangement (Worldcom's gonna run our company network for us). I'm contemplating transfering from my current position to that network services team but would quite like to know more about Worldcom's corporate culture before taking the plunge (since it seems I'd become a Worldcom employee in fairly short order). Does anyone have any experience of life at Worldcom they could share?" It's always smart to try get an idea of the climate in a company before you you try and sign up.
"Is it all white shirts, and singing the company song at 07:00, or is it T-shirts, jeans, company masseur and free donuts ? Do they work you into the ground till you burn out and then cast you aside with the trash, or do they look after you, nurture your career, notice your contribution without you having to sing your own praises the whole time. Are Worldcom folk *happy* and enthusiastic, content to be a valued part of a committed team effort, or are they cogs in a faceless machine, living in isolation and fear of visits from beancounters looking for yet more cost-savings to make for the stock-holders' benefit?"
...for some time become 'News for somebody else. Stuff that doesn't matter to me.' Sad.
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I have seen *seven* rounds of layoffs in the last year and a half here at the world headquarters for Worldcom. In that same period, they opened hiring nine times for the very positions that got laid off.
In other words, they strive to minimize costs by reducing the number of benefits-deriving employees.
As a stockholder, that might be nice, but as a potential employee, that is a warning sign NOT to work there.
I know several people that have gone to work there, been laid off, and then called for the SAME position not three months later.
Its ridiculous.
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Casue that's what you'll be tasting if you go to work for Worldcom... You'll get to work at the nice building out in Clinton MS. It's one of the nicest buildings in our state. Second only to the outhouse outside of the governor's mansion.
--Forest C. Adcock--
"What's it like to ask stupid, irrelevant questions, and, as a result, convince dumbasses like me to respond vitriolically to them?"
What does it mean to wake out of a dream
and be wearing someone else's shorts?
BNL, Born on a Pirate Ship (1998)
The guy wanted an answer to his question. And out come a bunch of whiney biachez talking about how the quality of slashdot sucks. Boo hoo hoo... what a waste of time... If that were true you wouldn't respond. Gee if it really has gone down the toilet... you should go somewhere else... like news.com or cnn.com... or is that too watered down? (I personally was interested in this story.) -my worthless 2 cents