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Oracle Lays Off More Than 1,000 Employees (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to the Mercury News, Oracle is laying off approximately 450 employees in its Santa Clara hardware systems division. Reports at The Layoff, a discussion board for technology business firings, claim about 1,800 employees company-wide are being pink-slipped. Oracle claims the company isn't closing the Santa Clara facility with this reduction in force. Instead, "Oracle is refocusing its Hardware Systems business, and for that reason, has decided to lay off certain of its employees in the Hardware Systems Division."
Looks like this is the end of Sun SPARC and Solaris.
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[...] the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did.
Except Trump isn't going to bring back the manufacturing jobs of yesteryear. A new factory today will hire a few dozen workers to handle a machine that does the work of 1,500 workers.
They better watch it - Foxconn is thinking of opening a $7 Billion display screen factory in the USA, on top of $50 Billion, and you know darned well that fear of Trump putting duties on them is part of it.
Nope. I don't know or believe that for a second. See, I'm not dumb. I can actually read that Foxconn had plans before Trump even threw his hat into the ring.
More importantly, I dislike governance by fear, and what I also know is that if ANYBODY on the left-wing side said anything like what Trump purports to do, the Republicans would shake in their boots at the vileness of government interfering with the free market, and most importantly, I know that the suffering factory workers in Asia, whose plight I also care about, will not be in Trump's thoughts. So not only will he be ignoring real problems, the political allies in the legislature won't be genuinely interested in doing the thing, at most, they'll appear to do it.
More likely, they'll get fed up with him, and toss him on his ass as soon as he gives them an opening.
You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.
In a country of over 300 million? Nope. In a country with a workforce of 160 million or so. Nope. Heck, I still remember the right-wing shills complaining about people leaving the workforce and not even looking for jobs, thanks to Obama. Now you want me to praise Trump for a pittance?
Says more about you than the economy.
You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"
Ah, here's the thing, Trump won't bring them back, but he will absolutely insist he is, so the naive will be thinking the world is changing for the better, and all too easily believe that it's the GREAT TRUMP who is saving them, even as the Emperor's lack of clothes becomes apparent.
I agree there will be lots of "success stories" but that's the problem. See, it won't be true stories. It'll be works of fiction. And the kind of asshole that Trump is, is one that is very dangerous, though perhaps you might not be aware of it. He's the conniving deceitful sort that gets a roaring crowd behind him as he convinces Democracy to sign its death warrant.
He's very dangerous.
This one combined with Microsoft's layoffs has already cancelled out the few hundred jobs Trump was so proud of keeping in the US a few weeks. Maybe the Oracle employees can get a job at Carrier.