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HP to Layoff 15,000 Employees

Posted by Zonk on from the good-luck dept.

William Robinson writes "ZDNet reports that HP is planning to layoff 15000 employees. IT, sales and services will be among the areas particularly hit, although the sweeping cuts will be felt throughout the company, according to a close source to the company." From the article: "HP is expected to announce the layoffs as early as Monday, but employees are not expected to be immediately notified of their status, the source said, noting such a practice is common in corporate America. More high-level discussions on the layoffs will occur late next week and employees may get a greater sense of their specific status sometime thereafter."

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  1. HP sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    fp

  2. Don't blame the corporation... by dada21 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...blame our state and federal governments.

    Excessive regulations, ridiculous wage requirements, forced benefits, excessive taxation and inflation of the currency all combine to create a country that just can't compete.

    Seriously consider moving to a free market like Dubai if you're facing a pink slip. Lots of high paying IT jobs in that freedom-loving city.

  3. Why didn't they just send back all their H-1bs? by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll
    H-1bs are preferred over US employees. Now we see that outsourcing is also preferred over US employees. This won't stop till US politics and society is restructured to stop the globalizers from selling-out the country that made them -- both here and abroad.

    Corporations have no god-given right to their property-rights. They were given the environment that provided their property rights by the US's citizens who defended not only defended those property rights with their lives and tax dollars, but were the source technologically creative culture these globalizing traitors now sell-out to foreign competitors with the cooperation of corrupt politicians.

    PS: This isn't to say this movement of labor off-shore isn't welcomed. The less power companies like HP have over the US the faster the US will recover from the slide to third-world status created by these Frankenstein monstrosities.

    --
    Seastead this.
    1. Re:Why didn't they just send back all their H-1bs? by Sanity · · Score: 0, Troll
      Why is a non-US citizen more deserving of an income than a US citizen. Is a US citizen more of a human than they are?

      Don't you see how you devalue yourself if you assert that the only thing that can protect your job is protectionism?

      Let me be blunt. If an Indian, or an Eastern European can do your job better than you can for less than you can, then they deserve your job more than you do.

      If you want to explain why that shouldn't be the case, then please do, but I challenge you to do-so without restort to racism of one form or another.