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

["Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I worked at Granada Computer Services it was always interesting when a
manager got promoted, he was never sure if they promoted him into a level
that was just about to get the chop to get rid of him or he'd been promoted
out of the one that was due to get the chop so they could keep him!

Phil

> 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
>
>
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