Sony Slashes 10,000 Jobs

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 9, 2012 @05:08AM from the so-long-sony dept.

redletterdave writes "Sony will cut about 10,000 jobs, which equates to about six percent of its global workforce, by the end of the year. The move comes after the Tokyo-based electronics firm more than doubled its loss forecast on April 5 to $2.9 billion, and the recent hiring of a new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, on April 1. Hirai looks to downsize Sony and pivot the company in a new direction to get out of the red for the first time in four years. The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division, cutting about 3,000 workers in the process, and also make cuts within its small and midsize LCD operations. Sony did not say if it would cut these jobs in Japan, abroad, or both."

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Not to worry by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2012-04-09 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny

I understand they're still looking for rootkit developers.
Its about profit by MDillenbeck · 2012-04-09 05:27 · Score: 3, Funny

I wonder how many millions of dollars bonus the CEO will earn by cutting the workforce so drastically...
What is sony chemical division? by vlm · 2012-04-09 05:27 · Score: 3, Funny

The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division
So what is sony chemical division, like if you buy Sony-brand acetone then you can only use it in Sony-brand test tubes? Sony-brand chemical storage only holds Sony-brand hydrochloric acid that costs 10x as much as commodity HCl? That's how they run their electronic division...
I LOL when I thought of it, but I'm seriously betting they sell a line of completely incompatible ground-glass-joint glassware for chemists. Like instead of standard 14/20 taper, theirs is probably 16.335/23.235, that spec is trademarked and copyrighted up the wazoo, and costs 10 times as much as normal glassware and they aggressively sue anyone trying to use it with normal taper glassware. (On a slightly related note, what is it with you european chemists, on this side of the pond we use two tapers, "big and small (14/20 is the small)" yet we're taught that you guys have something like 10 mutually incompatible tapers... whats up with that... I would think you metric EU people would simply have the one taper to rule them all but no we're told you've got a dozen in common use)

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Downsizing their customer base by Pf0tzenpfritz · 2012-04-09 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny

So, downsizing their customer base didn't work anymore?

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Sony Bourne Again Shell by tepples · 2012-04-09 07:18 · Score: 4, Funny

We'll be waiting for your Sony bash
Sony bash hasn't been around since PS3 firmware 3.21.