Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Did you think I *ever* controlled even one cent of Sun's budget? > I can't even have Sun mail you a T-shirt without getting management > approval. Certainly I have no influence over our employment levels, > or they wouldn't have cut the X engineering team headcount twice in > the past two years. (Your name was mentioned as a possibility to > replace one of our engineers who left last year, but then we found > out we were not getting any replacement, so it went no farther.) > > Perhaps you've missed the news that Sun is again in the middle of > layoffs - several hundred people got notice last week that their > jobs were eliminated - there simply isn't a lot of opportunity for > hiring new people right now. >
Recently I didn't have time to read ElReg or theinquirer or Yahoo's stock ticker on a regular basis. Believe me, I full-heartedly feel sorry for all those of you who lost their jobs, exactly as in the motor or steel industries. It sucks, how most of the global "markets" evolve, the entire direction. With that very divide becoming huger and huger. The situation between a Sun employee-contributor and a non-employed one may be similar (in an abstract level) to what has been happening when the "unsinkable" Titanic was going to sink (and only 40% of the required rescue boat capacity had been available) : You are one of the lucky ones, being in one of the few boats ... But nobody, including myself, can expect you to jump into the water, just to allow another person to climb into the boat. It's a tragedy. But please understand, that those many in the cold water were not going to talk to you all too long, whether they wanted to, or not ... -- Regards, %martin
