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RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-i-can-have-you-nobody-will dept.

theodp writes "Taking a page from the insanely-jealous-husband-playbook, Motorola management has adopted an if-I-can't-have-you-nobody-can stance on its fired employees, reportedly blocking RIM from offering jobs to laid-off workers. In a complaint filed in state court, Motorola is charged with improperly trying to expand a previous agreement 'to prevent the RIM entities from hiring any Motorola employees, including the thousands of employees Motorola has already fired or will fire.' Through its Compete America membership, Motorola has repeatedly warned Congress that failing to accommodate the lobbying group members' 'principled' demand for timely access to talent would not be in the United States' economic interest and would make the US second-rate in education and basic research."

10 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Pathetic. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    they are trying to make their bonuses

    Golden Parachute opening in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

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  2. Re:Sorry Motorola by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sigh. It's bad enough that I can't get my girlfriend to give me a RIM job.

  3. Re:Sorry Motorola by thrillseeker · · Score: 4, Funny

    he will goto a place that would terrify even Baal himself

    Wal-Mart after a payday?

  4. Re:Sorry Motorola by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sigh. It's bad enough that I can't get my girlfriend to give me a RIM job.

    We already know that. I mean, if you could, you'd be too busy to be hanging out here.

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  5. I'm shocked by willoughby · · Score: 5, Funny

    I own two Motorola GSM telephones & judging by their performance I was under the impression Motorola had no engineers left.

  6. Re:Sorry Motorola by More_Cowbell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you condense that for me a bit? I don't have a lot of time for reading...

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  7. Re:Sorry Motorola by Trails · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope Motorola's lawyers get spanked so hard, the stockholders have hand prints on their butts.

    So, in punishment for preventing people from getting RIMjobs, you hope Motorola gets spanked? Aren't you just all in the butt.

  8. Re:Sorry Motorola by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you condense that for me a bit? I don't have a lot of time for reading...

    Sure. No.

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  9. Re:Sorry Motorola by Contusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you condense that for me a bit? I don't have a lot of time for reading...

    In binary: 0

  10. Re:Northbound Brain Drain by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny
    "You generally don't see large-scale layoffs for incompetence (although, sometimes that wouldn't be a bad idea.) In most cases, it's because management screwed up"

    Wouldn't that be "large-scale layoffs for incompetence"? Just that the incompetent escapes the axe, sort of like GM CEO Rick Wagoner?