I was spared, but holy crap.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Timpofee had this to say about Captain Planet:
How did they go about the whole layoff thing?
Big meeting then pink slips?
or was it selective based?
In our case people were individually referred to HR reps. Smaller meetings for individual groups to give status updates and calm the survivors.
They went out of their way to describe the situation and explain why a layoff was neccessary, which was nice enough.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Maybe because their stuff is used heavily for beer and liquor bottles.
However, getting people hired seems a lot harder than it was a year ago (which is when I came on. Woo for getting in under the gun).
Sucks about the layoffs, though.
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Karnaj enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Same with my wife's. They're looking to hire 200 people this year. In fact, they're working with a local community college to re-train people who've lost their jobs so they can start a new career.
What does your wife do, again? Not that I'd be in any way qualified, I'm just curious.
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Monica enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
What does your wife do, again? Not that I'd be in any way qualified, I'm just curious.
I think she's in pharmaceuticals, if I'm remembering my EC Wives correctly.
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Naimah wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
My company is aggressively hiring. So it's not universal.
Hiring doesn't mean safety necessarily. My company still has a couple hundred open position requests open in North America, plus more in other countries. The layoffs were a chance to cut the fat; groups generally closed open requests rather than fire people.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Razor wrote:
CSU system is undergoing a hiring freeze at some campuses. We're lucky to see a budget, even though we won't know what we have to spend until maybe a week or two now if we are lucky. At least, in another 14 days, I'll have full permanent status.
I thought they were just doing a "You teach and we'll forget to pay you" program.
At least that's what happened to me.
I think it's all straightened out now though.
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Doomjudge attempted to be funny by writing:
My Company has 1200 positions open in Canada alone...and yeah, we need em. We're spread entirely too thin.
You work at Tim Hortons?
It's just the first big project she's wrapped up since she started doing this hollywood stuff so I'm proud of her.
