Saturday, May 19, 2012

Waiting

HP has announced that they intend to lay off about 30,000 people, which is about ten percent of their workforce.  Most of the layoff will be just that; a few will be retirements.

We figure there is a two out of three chance that my wife won't be employed by the end of the week. And about a one in four chance that she'll be offered early retirement.
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Not sure if Irony is the right word -- she may be fired in three days, but right now she's putting in extra time to help on a task that isn't hers.  Do the corporate oligarchs appreciate this?  Hell, no. 

4 comments:

Tabor said...

This ongoing saga is so sad. Hope she gets to stay...if she wants.

Cerulean Bill said...

She does want to. Fortunately, we don't NEED to...but it would be nice. However, Nice is not in the vocabulary of the people running the company.

Unknown said...

That sucks. Sorry to hear about that!

Cerulean Bill said...

Thanks. It's not definite, but based on some news today, it's likely.