Monday, February 23, 2009
No, Confidential Company Data Is Not Part of Your Severance…
Here’s a data point to consider amid the tech sector’s mounting job cuts.
According to a new study by the Ponemon Institute, many employees leaving their jobs aren’t above adding a little something to their separation packages: confidential corporate data.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Econalypto: A Rightsizing Roundup
With IBM quietly contributing another 2,800 or so employees to the next Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment report, this seems like a fine time to pay respects to those who’ve gone before them. And there are many. In the past six months, thousands of workers have been right-sized and offboarded. Rebalanced and rationalized. “Smartsized.” Sacked. A quick scan of the carnage.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Well, Motorola Picked a Great Time to Announce More Layoffs…
Talk about fortuitous timing. With the newswires full of stories about Apple and all attention focused on CEO Steve Jobs, his health and his medical leave of absence, Motorola announced it’s laying off 4,000 workers in 2009, with 3,000 of them in the company’s flagship mobile phone division.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Oracle Layoffs: Hundreds, Not Thousands
Oracle has apparently ushered in the new year with a bit of a bloodletting. Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Tim Klasell says the company recently sacked some employees in sales and marketing. The Times of India reports that 40 workers were just let go at the company’s Bangalore offices. And quite a few more may be joining them soon–but not the rumored 8,000.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
AT&T Announces Q4 Morale Reduction
AT&T joined the sad conga line of companies laying off workers, announcing on Thursday the elimination of 12,000 jobs. That’s roughly four percent of its workforce. The company cited “economic pressures, a changing business mix and a more streamlined organizational structure” as the rationale for the move.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Getting Fit With Jerry Yang, Redux
The new fitness program to which Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang referred in his last all-hands memo to employees is expected to begin Tuesday. Yahoo is to report quarterly earnings tomorrow and it will announce layoffs along with them. Clearly, those Bain & Company “personal trainers” Yahoo recently hired to help it trim down and shape up are already working their magic.
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
