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?"

Comments

Re:fristing ps0t

[Unknown Poltroon]

Coulds you at least make the first post vaguely coherent? Is that to much to ask?

MCI experiences

[Telastyn]

This doesn't have to do with their networking area, but MCI regularly calls me trying to change my long distance plan to them.

Apparently though their telemarketters cannot hang up on you (either by being technically unable to, or by policy). I know because a rather persistant or annoying individual called me a few months ago from MCI. I eventually placed the phone down on top of my computer and went back to playing Diablo II. A few hours later the guy was still on the phone laughing with his buddies.

They still called, and are still persistant and annoying. The most recent time the conversation went like so:

MCI: "Hi, I'm Dave from MCI, I'm calling tonight to save you money!"

me: " MCI huh? Man, you'd think you guys would learn... every month for nearly a year now you guys call me, and I never switch to MCI. After the first few I even started torturing you, but yet you call!"

MCI: "Excuse me?"

This continued for nearly 15 minutes until I got tired of him trying to convince me that the best way to get them to stop calling me would be to SIGN UP FOR THE SERVICE!

Needless to say I'm looking forward to the next call :]

Re:You've got to be kidding me.

[grumbly]

Nail. Head. *WHACK*

Re:I used to work there

[blair1q]

>get paged in the middle of the night and have to come in at 2am to babysit a router (it happened to me several dozen times). I don't mean to imply that I am p-whipped but my wife forced me to quit that job.

What is up with that?

I got the same grief from my ex.

I mean, what's it to her? She's asleep. I'm going to work. And I'm paid hourly, so I'm getting plenty of loot to spend on her. It all spells "hero", but she acts all hurt and dissed.

My guess is it kicks in some female instinct that you're just going out to find another cave that smells like estrus, because what else would make a man not stay sleeping...

--Blair

lucky man!

[No Such Agency]

I don't mean to imply that I am p-whipped but my wife forced me to quit that job.

You should thank her. That's not even close to p***y-whipping, that's called "looking out for your partner when they're getting screwed". And it sounds like you were, like in so many tech jobs where you are "indispensible", but under-rewarded and ultimately expendable.