Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site isrnix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!iubugs!isrnix!pugsly From: pugsly@isrnix.UUCP (David Roth) Newsgroups: net.jobs Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on EDS Message-ID: <610@isrnix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:10:04 EST Article-I.D.: isrnix.610 Posted: Sun Nov 10 16:10:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:39:55 EST References: <586@isrnix.UUCP> <2048@reed.UUCP>, <607@calmasd.UUCP> Organization: Institute for Social Research (Indiana University, Bloomington) Lines: 59 >From jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally) Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 >Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site isrnix.UUCP >Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calmasd.UUCP >Path: isrnix!iubugs!inuxc!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!calmasd!jpm >From: jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally) >Newsgroups: net.jobs >Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on EDS >Message-ID: <607@calmasd.UUCP> >Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:14:44 EST >Article-I.D.: calmasd.607 >Posted: Thu Nov 7 11:14:44 1985 >Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 13:59:11 EST >References: <586@isrnix.UUCP> <2048@reed.UUCP> >Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA >Lines: 29 > >> Dave Kehoe writes: >> Watch out! I posted a similar request for information about >> EDS last May, and two weeks ago (October) I got a call from >> an EDS employee informing me that EDS doesn't like being >> discussed on an "electronic bulliten board" (net.jobs is >> probably a haven for snot-nosed teenage pirate hackers) >> and that EDS wanted me to remove my request. ... > >This is almost certainly inappropriate for net.jobs, but I just >can't resist taking cheap shots! What EDS employees like or >dislike about simple discussions on information about their >company is irrelevent to whether the discussion occurs or not. >Now my curiosity is raised and I have a few questions about EDS: > >1. Isn't EDS the acronym for Electronic Data Systems, a company >originally headquartered in Dallas? >2. Isn't EDS started, run, own by H. Ross Peirot, someone I >remember as an extreme political conservative? Isn't EDS the same >company whose employees were rescued by EDS during the turmoil of >the Iranian revolution? >3. Hasn't EDS been recently acquired by General Motors (in some >form) to do their MAP (manufacturing automation protocol) >implementation after GM could find no satisfactory contractors? > >Flames, especially those from self-righteous EDS employees, to >/dev/null. >-- >John McNally GE/Calma 11080 Roselle St. San Diego CA 92121 >...{ucbvax | decvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!jpm (619)-458-3230 Yes, EDS has been acquired by GM. I would just like to hear some comments (any comments about EDS) by EDS employees? Any EDS people on the net? I interviewed with EDS about a month ago for a system eng. position. I would be glad to talk to anyone about it who is interested. I felt like I was being sold more on coming to work for them because of the company more than what type of work I would be doing. For me...I am more interested in the type of work I would be doing before I even look at a profit & loss statement. David A. Roth ...decvax!pur-ee!isrnix!pugsly ...ihnp4!isrnix!pugsly Indianapolis,IN