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booboo was a horrible yell leader

Can someone explain to me the psychology behind all the restrictions? Obviously someone had to think them up, write them down and enforce them. What school of thought were they following?

After avoiding this thread for years, I finally broke down and read it because Reynolds and Reynolds is a client of my company.

I spent half a day at the Houston office last year and it seemed like one hell of a weird place.

Half the people wore UCS or R&R t-shirts, and half the people wore full blown suits.

It was just a very weird atmosphere.

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Thought I would bring this back for the new batch of ReyRey folks

a classic thread Jelly Bean


a pox on you and your family

Worked for UCS back in 02-04 while in college. Met a lot of good friends there and had some crazy times with those guys. Even met a few ladies there, all part-timers in college as well. The christmas parties were infamous, best parties ever (especially if you know the bartenders working the party).

Used to love the Friday peformance awards meetings where they would have a keg. Would get a nice buzz going then head straight to the bars with fellow employees and a few bosses to complete the night! Lots of good memories...

WRONG THREAD.

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Worked print team for a little while. Worst job i've ever had, and what clothes i haven't burned since then still smell like ink cleaner.

Fun story: R&R does random drug tests on their employees. Every X amount of time they send out emails to the selected batch, informing them that they have to go in and do a urine test. Well, one of the print team kids (we'll call him Paul) was a huuuuge pot smoker. It also turned out that his father was one of the local higher ups. Everyone knew he smoked (he was high about half the time he was at work, anyways) but he never received a summons or had anyone talk to him about it. Well, Paul knew he could get away with a lot because of his dad, and as a result he was the biggest fkn pain in the ass in the world. One day, some of the other print team kids (we'll call them John and Brian) decided they'd had enough. They hacked in to the email server and sent Paul an email from the random drug test distro, telling him that he had been selected for testing. Well, Paul went in and took the test, and subsequently failed. When the results came back, Paul's father got involved and found out the email had indeed been fabricated, and made certain John and Brian were fired.

Paul still works there, and has still never received an official summons for drug testing.


Another fun story: After I was selected to join print team i had to go through basic training quizzes such as knowing the company's history, VPs, how to clock out to take a piss, etc. I had also signed a form stating that I would work at least 20 hours a week, and as a result they would give me a 50 cent raise. Well, for the first couple days of work all I was allowed to do was these quizzes. so when I finished them, I had to go home. Of course, this meant I came in FAR below my 20 hours the first week, but was assured that this was normal and within the rules. Later that semester, during finals, one of the tippity top bosses approached me and some other employees and explained that we would be forced to make up those hours in the next two days, or be forced to quit. Seeing as that was finals week, and I had a number of other commitments... no dice: 13 of the bench area workers 'quit' that day.

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Can someone explain to me the psychology behind all the restrictions? Obviously someone had to think them up, write them down and enforce them. What school of thought were they following?

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Rule #1 - Nothing incriminating is ever written down. My manager used to always say "If it isn't in writing it never happened". This place has so many unwritten rules it will make your head spin. But every last one of them will be denied because of course they aren't written down.

To understand the philosophy you must understand how the company operates.

- 99% of the employees are hired directly out of school. Hiring experienced employees is too expensive.
- They specifically target people with worthless majors (governement, history, etc...), low GPAs or in other situations that would limit there job choices.
- They run everyone through a series of tests to try and determine your intelligence and logical abilities (gotta make sure the bad GPA wasn't because you were a complete moron). What some don't realize is that the tests also give them an indication of your inclination to be a sheep (just do what your told and keep your mouth shut).
- If they like your scores they make you a low ball offer that is not negotiable.
- If you accept, the indoctrination begins on day 1. From day 1 they try to "encourage" everyone to become friends with your co-workers and to participate in a myriad of after work activities (sports leagues, tournaments, just hanging out at the bar, etc...). There are some people that really enjoy all of these activities not realizing that they are actually just a tool to keep you busy so you have no time to find better employment. I realize that sounds paranoid, but you would be saying the same thing if your lack of participation in company activities was brought up in every single PERFORMANCE review.

UCS/R&R is all about control. They try to keep everyone happy with after work activities so that you forget that your pay sucks. There are some people that enjoy their time at UCS/R&R. And I will admit that I did enjoy some of the activities but there is something significantly wrong when certain after hours & weekend activities are required attendance.

Edit - Forgot to add. Many people in management actually love recruiting TAMU because they view the university as a cult. They think that our traditions and general mindset as a university make us more likely to "buy in" to the UCS/R&R way of doing things.

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Not that it's particularly relevant, but I just saw this thread and thought I'd share a video I made from my days at ReyRey.

Direct .wmv link

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I posted on this thread in 2003....probably one of my first posts.

OA1606 - if you are in Houston send me an email. I helped several others get out when I left almost 2 years ago. I may be able to help you out as well.

I work there right now and I've been at that hell hole for over a year now. I've been looking for a way out since my first 3-4 months. I won't say where I work or whom I work for, but it sucks nonetheless. My soul dies a little more each day and my self-respect is at an all time low. I live for the weekends and loathe the evenings during the week. I can't tell you how many times I've been thrown under the bus by my supervisor and I'm always wrong before I'm every right. I hate this place!

I posted on this thread six years ago. Wow, has it been that long?

UCS was the worst job I ever had. I got scolded for reading one of those green new testaments that they pass out on campus one day and I blew up and let my boss have it. Afterwards I had to quit or be fired. So I quit.

It was one of the best days of my life.

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Is it possible to sticky this thread at the top of the job network forum? Everyone should know how crappy this company is.

so what was the grenade story?

ttt for grenade story?

(also giving the noobs a chance to read some gold)

nice bump

oh nice...the video that knowitall_ag posted is of my department and all those people were my co-workers and bosses during my time there!

awesome!

bahaha BAT, at 11 and 19 seconds I wanted to punch those people in the faces.

Man it has been a long time since I've seen this thread. I left that hell hole over 2 yrs ago. Many of my co-workers are still there. Tried to help a number of them get out but they weren't willing to do any work to get a new job. Guess they were a good fit for UCS after all.

If anyone is stuck there and wanting out shoot me an email (posted above). I will help if I can. FYI I only have the connections to help people in Houston.

I worked at a place that was similarly screwed up, although it was a mom & pop business, not a large company.

People that quit would always say "That is the most effed up place I have ever worked!".

Good times.

My area wasn't that bad for a college job, but it was still fairly retarded...

The Grenade story changed my life.

I got offered an interview for a call analyst position earlier this year as a part time deal here. Something seemed very wrong about that place when I went in for it...and didn't feel all that great about it.

I'm glad I didn't end up getting it.

That video a few posts up is funny. Well done.

Just came across this thread. I worked for UCS from '99 - '01. I was a printer tech/QA on the bench. There were some GREAT stories to tell about working there.

The Christmas parties were the best. Why on earth would anyone want to miss them? They rent out the whole first floor of the Hilton, and it's all the free food and drinks you want.

I would LOVE to know what other posters worked on the bench at the same time I did. We probably know each other. So far, I know of one other TA poster that worked there when I did, and he was my supervisor for a while.

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Carl Johnson once killed a bear with a hammer.

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Get it right, it was his bare hands.

They stopped allowing part-timers at the christmas parties before I worked there is '06 or '07

What??? That sucks! That was a big perk of working there! Then again, us part-timers usually got pretty rowdy and took full advantage of the free alcohol. I guess I couldn't blame them trying to keep the riff-raff out.

My friend worked there, quit after a couple months. Weird, cultish company.

ttt for Outlaw08 who got nailed first thing yesterday. Thread about on AO.

Makes my job seem like a dream job...