Incompetence is a requirement for management now days <G>. The people are carefully screened and those with the slightest sign of intelligence are fired. I know - I work for a big corporation!
Lee wrote: > One thing I noticed was the omission of Ransom Love and the director of > marketing on the list of laid off employees. In the world of high > finance I guess incompetence is an asset. Another omission was that they > failed to mention that 4 months ago Caldera did a reverse stock split. > For every four shares of stock the stock holders got one share. Before > the split the stock was selling at around $.60/share. After the reverse > split stock went to $2.20. Since then the stock has gone to $.73/share, > but the loss is really $2.20 -$73 x 4 /share. But that's what happens > when you turn your company over to graduates of the Enron School of > Business Management. > > > > > > Bill Campbell wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:57:56PM -0400, dep wrote: >> >begin Net Llama!'s quote: >> > >> >| Caldera has been doing 'silent' restructing for over a year now, >> >| and it hasn't shown a bit of progress in moving out of the red. >> >| >> >| I almost take this announcement as an act of desperation, where >> >| they're saying "Hey remember us, we're trying to stop the bleeding, >> >| so please buy from us". >> >| >> >| I wonder if Caldera will exist a year from now. >> > >> >fyi, i've got a piece on it up now: >> > >> >http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 >> > >> >layoffs were today. also, the revenues represent a loss of 23 cents >> >per share. >> >> And the $0.79 per share is after a 1/4 reverse split making the wonderful >> ``Friends and Family'' IPO price of $14.00/share more like $56.00/share >> for comparison purposes (the good part for me is that my wife was annoyed >> that I hadn't taken advantage of the Red Hat offer, and she was the one >> who pushed to make sure we didn't miss the Caldera IPO :-). >> >> Bill >> -- >> INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC >> UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way >> FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) >> 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ >> >> There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government >> working for you. >> -- Will Rogers >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list - >> http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe >> info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
