No, they are not bitching about 4billion. They are bitching that they didn't get the extra 500 million they were expecting. Cutting 5000 jobs will save them 5000*(70,000*2) or $700,000,000 a year. Of course I am wildly guessing the $70k/year is the average salary accross all 5000 employees, and *2 for overhead and additional expenses the company must pay to have the employees working, ie. bennies, free food/soda/ice cream/beer in the office, electricity, pc's, other building expenses, on campus transportion, free meals in one of the restaraunts on campus, the list goes on and on. Mike, I've been to the MVP summit twice and it's quite impressive what they give away. They could prolly cut their freebies in half and save a billion. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246
________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Thursday Funny I don't quite get their gloom and doom though. From that article: The company says profit slipped to $4.17 billion, or 47 cents per share, from year-ago earnings of $4.71 billion, or 50 cents per share. It says total revenue edged up 2 percent to $16.63 billion, as software for corporate computer servers helped offset an 8 percent drop in revenue for PC software. The results missed Wall Street's forecast for earnings of 49 cents per share on sales of $17.08 billion. They are complaining about a profit of 4 BILLION DOLLARS. OMG. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: will...@lefkovics.net [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: re: [OT] Thursday Funny Really, almost as good as the original. Not so funny Thursday tidbit: Microsoft to cut up to 5,000 jobs http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28791669/ ________________________________ From: "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:06 AM To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: [OT] Thursday Funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2GmBkkaTU ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. ******************************************************************* ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
