Re: [cobalt-users] Possible bad news for Cobalt

[Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:18:19 -0700, Lyle Scheer mumbled something 
like:
>>Gee, if this is true, I wish somebody would tell us...
>>no signs of a layoff that I can see.

There usually isn't, Lyle, but I hope you're right.
Just in case, you might want to take home any important personal 
pictures so you don't have to wait for them to be mailed to your 
"address on file".

With any merger there is always a glutton of staff afterwards. 
Departments that have similar functions are squished together, and 
now you have twice as many workers in that dept. as you need to have. 
The company might have had all of the best intentions not to lay 
anyone off, but the merger *always* costs more than expected and the 
bean-counters *always* have the final say. Extra helping hands are 
shown the door.
The only bad thing in this process is that the bean counters don't 
take into account someone's expertise in a field, or how hard s/he 
works. You can be the hardest worker in the department, and they'll 
cut you in order to keep the slacker who makes half as much as you 
do. Bean counter's logic.

Again, I hope this report is wrong - I really don't like the thoughts 
of (1)The "internet appliance group", meaning the people who run the 
Cobalts, going away, and (2)Seeing familiar fonts like Jeff Lovell 
and you get shafted. :(

If this *does* turn out to be true, would a Cobalt employee be so 
kind as to subscribe with another email addy and let us know if 
anyone who takes time to help us out in here got the knife?

--
CarrieB
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and 
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can´t find them, 
make them." --George Bernard Shaw