Electronic Data Systems
Bad employer practice

While most of EDS (Sabre) is a good company..
I wish to point out there are sections of this company that while not a true ripoff or illegal... Is definately underhanded and incompetent in method.

I was a happy employee and doing decent job as a TPF Operator for several months.

A position that I fit perfectly opened up.
Position was rexx programming which fit me as I was the primary batch (JCL) analyst at my last true programming job, and utilized rexx heavily in the last few years and co-developed rexx code to enhance coversion efforts between legacy & new schedulers.

I interviewed for the posiiton and was hired.
My mgmt requested a 3-week notice, and the new mgmt gave it.

4.5 days into the new position, without having yet had a chance to really perform (wasnt even given a laptop to access till day 4, and not given related documentation to review till I had access till day 3.5).

On day 5 was told by new manager that they forgot to get the PO approved. (later found out this was a partial lie).
Thinking things were on the up&up, I waited 2 weeks for them to fix things... in the meantime my former position in TPF was backfilled. If I had known I was about to be screwed out of the new job, I would have gone back to TPF and await the PO.

I found out from (friends on the inside) that Renee Hitechew lied and never really had a PO intended to hire me or at least was using that to get rid of people.

I was never even given a chance to prove my:
2 years of JCL-batch heavy production REXX use.
10 years of VM heavy Rexx use.

I would have been very helpful in their efforts to improve/develope automation at Sabre.

Be aware, EDS/Sabre is in some areas, a cutthroat and almost criminal organization and will rip you off on your payroll too.

IN TPF they work you 3-4 days a week 12yr days.
Great in that you get 3-4 days off a week and can do other things (I myself worked other projects on days off from tpf).

Bad in that you cannot incurr overtime, and if you do you are required to somehow 'move' that time to a future timesheet or otherwise report 40 hours some other way.

In my case, I was required by recruiter & EDS mgmt to put any hours over 40 on the next paychk which would put that weeks 40 on the next following too... Forever forcing a 40 on almost all chks.

The lie about having a study that proved their way was best, is a very big lie... (I chked with high up former EDS mgmt, that was never a real study, its just a way for EDS to save money by screwing the employee).

Lesson overall, is that I no longer will accept a new job unless they confirm the PO is in place.
(exception: if I am not already working somewhere, I might risk it, but only if I dont already have other jobs lined up).

Company: Electronic Data Systems
Country: USA
State: Oklahoma
City: Tulsa
Site: eds.com

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