I worked there for about a month. Got tired of it, started taking insanely long lunches(sometimes two lunches), and then I just didn't show up one day. That place blows ass. No one should be subject to that.

The funny thing about that tobacco rule...Wasn't it strictly for insurance purposes?

Anyway, my roomies told me there would be kegs in the parking lot on Friday afternoons. Now that is a bipolar workplace...

I think I will go apply right now

i applied and interviewed to be a programmer for Rentsys last year... and I think they were gonna hire me... luckily i found better job and took that instead.... whew!

what exactly does this company do?

Sell software for car dealerships

I worked there for about eight months. I wanted to take a year off between graduation and law school. Working there is not something I would wish upon anyone.

Comparing it to hell week over and over is exactly right. The eight people on my team got along great, and we had some fun times when we all realized we would be leaving the company within a month of each other. Our supervisors were not too happy to lose everyone all at once.

my wife worked in the office next to Golden Corral for about 8 months...

she was written up for "distracting the male employees". The vending machine was in another office in that complex, and so she'd have to make the short journey to get a soda. Apparently, all work came to a halt as she made the trip, so......she got written up for it. She was asked to wear more appropriate clothing. My wife couldn't figure out anything more appropriate than the business suits she was wearing while working there.

Weird company...

oh...yeah....she said that all higher ups in Houston had slept with everyone else

A comment about females wearing business suits. There was a psychological study done that found many men are turned on by a woman who wears pants.

La Fours,

I think you may be right. I find some business suits sexy as hell on women...Especially those white blouse things they wear...Damn.

I used to know a woman who frequently wore some kind of women's business suits.

For some reason, they made me think of clowns. Like Bozo.

Sometimes I'd see her walking down the hall and it was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing.

Having spent 3 years at the aforementioned company, I can tell many stories. Suprisingly enough, I actually enjoyed my time at UCS because my departmental supervisor and my coworkers were really cool. We enjoyed laughing at Bob Brockman and the idiots that took their jobs way too seriously.

I admit it... I did not have the aptitude required to work at UCS. I was told I did not meet the personality profile they needed. Oh Well! It sounds like I would not have made it there very long either.

I almost sold them my soul

So what was the grenade story?

I'd really like to hear that Grenade story too.

I worked there from January 2000 until then end of that semester (this was my freshman year, and my first "real job" ever). I quit because I took a job paying more than twice what UCS paid (computer programmer at Destia/Viatel, who is now bankrupt... the .com boom was nice while it lasted, which was eight months for me). Enough about Viatel, about UCS...

I worked on "the bench", specifically the CRT bench. I basically soldered all day, replacing defective components on the video boards and power supplies of dumb terminals. I didn't hate it; it was actually pretty laid back, especially the nights I worked the evening shift (until 10pm). Sometimes people would bring in donuts on Saturday morning (I worked every other Saturday).

However the pay did indeed suck; they paid me $6 to start and then $7 when they gave an across-the-board raise to part-time people (which from what I've heard, no one could remember such a thing happening before). The tests were stupid too ... like I gave a crap who all the VP's were or what year they were founded. And OMG... the door codes. I've forgotten what my 6-digit PIN was but I still remember punching in "85" after that for entering the bench area.

The no-smoking thing... heh, I remember someone asking a co-worker if they smoked (for possible roommate hookups) and asking for the real truth, not the "UCS truth".

All in all, I wouldn't work there again, but it wasn't all that bad in the bench, probably due to us being isolated from most of the other corporate bull****. The turnover rate was insane -- I was really surprised that this one girl had worked there three years.

Oh yeah, when I was quitting all my co-workers told me to go see Office Space... scarily accurate!

and to think UCS was going to be my fallback application after I graduate...

haha...you were a CRT nerd....long live PC Bench!!!...haha yuck...screw that job, what a waste...but i at least met some cool people on the PC team that were into the same gaming as i was......even though i dipped at work with everybody else and just lied my way through the "interview" like everybody else...haha

Nixter, I work for NetNearU here in Bryan now

None of you had it as bad as I did. I worked for Mainframe support. That department was well known for being the worst of the worst at UCS. We had to wear dark slacks, white shirt and dark tie. Doesnt this sound an awful like 1984 IBM??? If it does, thats because Brockman worked for IBM in the 60's.

I'll never forget having to take all of those stupid a$$ tests on how UCS got started and how great Bob Brockman is. When I started there, I found out I was making $3K more a year than some guys who had been there for 4 years. Plus, if you wanted any chance in advancing there, someone would have to die.

I have been in the military and I would much rather go to boot camp for 4 years than work there for a month!

The classes with clients were fun. I learned a lot about the car biz in them.

In one class, another employee was wearing a blue shirt with his suit. One of the clients in the class told him he was a rebel.

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The funny thing about that tobacco rule...Wasn't it strictly for insurance purposes?

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I think that's true -- I was given a (miserable) offer by UCS in May/June, and my offer letter stated that if I didn't bring a letter of preexisting conditions (or one saying I had none) from my present health insurer, I wouldn't get any medical benefits for 12 months.

That's when I told them exactly what they could go do with that job...(this was after interviewing three times with the same person over a two month period.)




"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
Mitch Radcliffe

I'm LMAO reading all these posts. I worked in periperheral tech support (PTS). Now, you guys that worked at the bench, you just think you had bad jobs...try having to put up with clients and field service techs on the phone all day. And...you had to be on call once every 6 weeks which meant you could be buzzed in the middle of the night.

I worked at the office near Golden Corral...which was 70 guys stuffed into this little room. Then, I lasted about 6 months in the new building.

I saw this post last night, but was too tired to respond. I was one person who worked on the bench.

The company is as bad as everyone says it is, but we made it fun in the equipment repair department. You have to understand that I just worked part-time while I was at A&M and was never a full time guy. I worked with a lot of great people and it was constant chaos with us. We were always pulling pranks and seeing who could come up with the most BS. Mostly everyone else around were college students and that was good.

We ragged on the guys in the white shirts and dark ties and I always wondered how anyone could put themselves through the torment of working at that place as a career.

All in all, the company is horrible, but luckily I started many friendships that I still have to this day. We made it the best with what we had.

Mr. Bad, you know my pain then. You saw personally how bad us mainframe guys had it!!

Yea, of course I won't mention your supervisor's name, but we had several run-ins when I was trying to install his networks during the big move to Quality Circle.

I'm so thankful I don't work there anymore. Only one person (our of 25) is left in the department that I left 2 1/2 years ago.

I will mention his name: JIM!!!! I wont mention his last name for legal reasons!

Oh, you worked in Mainframe Tech support. I was thinking you worked in Mainframe at the bench. Yea, you did have it the worst, my friend. You guys got calls all weekend when you were on-call.

I never worked there, but I knew a guy who did. He always talked about it being "hell on earth". He got fired for going to the snack machines too many times in a day.

i worked in software support. mainframe had to be bad... everytime i tried to punt a call to ya'll the guy who answered sounded like hell.

i loved the monthly bday parties. nothing like encouraging your employees to drink large amounts of beer and drive home.

No kidding, Mookie. Those parties were the most "Office Space"-ish events of them all.

i remember when we moved to the new building the cake people f-ed up and put "Welcome, USC!" on the cakes. I thought bob was going to fire everyone there.

Ha! I had forgotten about that, Mookie.

that place was on crack. i quit there with no prospects of a new job whatsoever. i felt like i would rather wait tables and work at wal-mart than continue there. it is cool if you have no interest in staying and you are just killing time in college station for a year.

mother f'en tps reports...

I worked there in 98 and hated it. my office was in the basement, and my supervisor, Lumberg was a total ***hole. he even went as far as to steal my stapler and then deny it.