The Walking Dead of Silicon Valley

Frisky070802 writes "CNN has a column about a liquidator who refers to thousands of Silicon Valley startups as the walking dead. It states: 'Pichinson, a self-described "doctor of reality" who helps liquidate companies, says he wouldn't have moved from Los Angeles to Palo Alto a few months ago had he not smelled more high-tech trouble looming.... "There's still another 6,500 to 7,500 companies out there who are among the walking dead."'"

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Re:Managers taking hostages?

[Glonoinha]

No. Read it again in context. It means Pichinson and friends come in as the consultants from the movie Office Space (Bob and Bob) and tell the managers to fire people.

Those people go freaky from time to time and walk back into their office with guns, take hostages and generally raise a ruckus because white people don't handle being fired out of the blue very well, particularly if they have been working hard and making sacrifices to help the company survive.

That is when hostage negotiation skills come in handy.