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Another Round of HP Layoffs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the severance-vs-salary dept.

geekroot's dad writes "AP News is reporting that Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard is 'fighting to stay competitive with formidable rivals like IBM and Dell' and is announcing 5,900 European job cuts "to safeguard the future" of the company. From the article: 'Michel Destot, the Socialist deputy mayor of the southern France city of Grenoble - where HP has one of its French plants - said the layoffs were "unacceptable" and demanded that HP managers also meet local politicians to discuss scaling back the job cuts.'" This round following the first cut back in July.

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  1. Put all right wing anti French stuff under here by EugeneK · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll spare folks a lot of work.

    "Oh, those evil French socialists! First they won't help us invade Iraq and now they are interfering with our right to lay off their lazy asses! I'm going to run down to McDonald's right now and loudly order some FREEDOM FRIES so if there's any French people eating there they will know how ANGRY I am!"

    1. Re:Put all right wing anti French stuff under here by Le+Marteau · · Score: 2, Funny

      You empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
      Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

      Signed,

      Le Marteau

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    2. Re:Put all right wing anti French stuff under here by Le+Marteau · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh, and one more thing. You can suck my French balls, for my civilzation has given the world mayonnaise. What have YOU given the world, filthy American? Cheese in an aerosol can? Scrapple?

      I also forgot one taunt: I wave my naughty bits at your auntie.

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    3. Re:Put all right wing anti French stuff under here by Le+Marteau · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh my, it seems one of you filthy American moderators has singled me, Le Marteau, out of this thread as 'off topic'. Whatever will I do. How long will my maxed-out karma last me at this rate?

      That was not 'off topic'. This, however, is: You are a pickup driving, tobacco chewing, Hee Haw watching, cousin fucking, banjo playing, rebel flag waving, 'yee haw!' yelling slack-jawed drooling meatslapper. A NASCAR watching, malformed spawn of trailer trash, fit only for work in the lower, less challenging forms of food service such as McDonald's.

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  2. What a laugh riot by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...Michel Destot, the Socialist deputy mayor of the southern France city of Grenoble - where HP has one of its French plants - said the layoffs were "unacceptable"...

    Wow, even Jerry Lewis never said anything that funny...

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  3. Re:Good... by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Never in my life have I dealt with such a group of arrogant and hostile to contractors group of people in my whole life.

    I think you need to learn how to express yourself. If you keep holding all of your anger inside, it will simply result in increased stress and maybe a potential heart attack. In the future, maybe you should just say how you really feel about a situation....

  4. Re:I wish the mayor of Grenoble all the best. by stevesliva · · Score: 4, Funny
    doing business in France with French employees is a royal pain in the butt
    That's an egalitarian paint in the butt, you bourgeois capitalist pig.
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  5. Oblig Monty Python by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Funny

    Deputy Mayor: "Could we at least come in and have a look at the jobs?"
    HP exec: "No. Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall downsize you a second time."

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  6. No more HP, Compaq only now! by MooseTick · · Score: 2, Funny

    That does it!! I'm boycotting HP from now on! My future PC purchases will be from Compaq! That will show them!

    I will also be boycotting Mercury in favor of Ford, Tru-Green in favor of Chemlawn, and finally I will only drink Budweizer! Busch will no longer get my business.

    If everyone would follow, corporate America would see who they are dealing with!

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  7. Re:To safeguard de company? by Nonoche · · Score: 2, Funny

    troll for troll : maybe one day you'll pay enough taxes to afford maintaining your dikes...

  8. I see the words 'Socialist deputy'... by otis+wildflower · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. and my heart warms for HP. I can't help it, it's limbic.

  9. Re:To safeguard de company? by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah -- we'll just build one fewer bridge to nowhere in Alaska, and that'll free up the money to fix the levees.

    Of course, leave it to the French to settle in a swamp below sea level, anyway. So it's all your fault, no matter what.

  10. Re:Death Spiral by giantsfan89 · · Score: 3, Funny

    rinse, lather, repeat

    do you go around with shampoo in your hair often? ;)

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  11. Gee! by Master+Bait · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once HP's layoff are finally finished, then only the very best forard-looking, productive, gung-ho employees will remain.

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