| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5321 |
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NEWS FLASH: 25 DIGITAL Trucks at former UTD Plant: Owner is MUM
(Athol Daily News 04-30-88)
"There were 25 tractor-trailer trucks with the logo of Digital Equipment
Corporation .... parked at the former UTD building" in Athol Mass.
The owner of the complex declined comment but said he will make
an announcement later.
Does anyone out there have any idea what is happening ? I thought
there was a moratorium on real estate purchases,leases,building
etc...... Any inside info ???????????????
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| 527.1 | Don't you wish | STING::JELENIEWSKI | Thu May 05 1988 12:25 | 27 | |
Recently Digital had a sort of "job fair" in Athol,
trying to recruit workers from there. I heard that practically
nobody showed up. Strange...considering that Athol is cited
in a national economics textbook as being a "strong bastion of
hard core unemployed" I think DEC is smarter than to even
consider locating there. Consder this:
OLd mill building? :^(
Distance from RT2? :^(
Skilled Workers? :^(
STrong Union mentality? :^(
(thats what drove out Litton)
Helpful town officials? :^( :^(
I think DEC just needed a place to store some excess junk and
some old trailers.
FWIW
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| 527.2 | PLDVAX::MORRISON | Bob M. LMO2/P41 296-5357 | Mon May 09 1988 18:51 | 7 | |
> trying to recruit workers from there. I heard that practically > nobody showed up. Strange...considering that Athol is cited It doesn't sound strange to me, considering that the recruiters were pro- bably recruiting for plants 40+ miles from Athol. Even people who are des- perate for work might not want to take on that kind of commuting. Sounds like the DEC move to Athol was a false alarm, unfortunately. | |||||