[ale] Atlanta I.T. job market [OT]

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 11:16 -0400, Robert Heaven wrote:
> I can't find it but, I thought I saw an article, come out on the same day as this announcement, that said some new executive at HP was being hired for $1.5B which just happened to be the same amount they were saving with these lay-offs.
> 

Same old HP as when I was there. Carly's bonus the year of the 6k job
cuts was the same as the savings from the job. IBM has done it as well.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aaron <aaron at pd.org>
> Sent: Jul 25, 2005 6:24 AM
> To: drifter at oppositelock.org, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Atlanta I.T. job market [OT]
> 
> On Monday 25 July 2005 03:22, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > For those not on the local Unix Users Group mailing list,
> > this announcement might be useful:
> > 
> > ----------------- <begin copied material> --------------------------
> > 
> > Topic:    Where is the Atlanta I.T. job market going?
> > 
> > Speaker:  Donna Frazier,  ComputerJobs.com, Atl, GA
> > 
> > Location: Hewlett-Packard Building, 20 Perimeter Summit, Atl, GA
> 
> Interesting (indicative?) choice of venue for the topic, since the latest 
> obscenely overpayed slash and burn CEO of HP just announced another
> 10% cut in their workforce, killing some 14,000 more jobs. Guess this Mark
> Hurd just a Karly clone without the cute hairdo, anxious to "herd" the 
> thinning numbers of HP employees to the chopping block.
> 
> Could be worse, though.... imagine how many limbs he'd chew off of
> the company if they weren't actually doing well.
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
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