IBM has been laying off its own employees. What makes you think that they will want to keep Rational's?
They bought the company for the technology. Nothing else. Not the payroll. They are lying to you because it is in their interests to keep you working hard until they are ready to close the office.
Go for the MBA. You want to be the person that fires people, outsources jobs, and can get hired elsewhere for more money after you've run your company into bankruptcy.
This "evil owner"'s problem is that he did not communicate with his employees. If he had said: "look, we have problems here, I'm going to give you the honest truth about our finances, this is what we have to do, and I'm going to be working at least as hard as you if not harder to make this company survive so that it will reward all of us when it does" - then some people would have left; but others that trusted him might have taken the risk. Leaving the employees ignorant for fear that they might leave if they know the true story will destroy morale.
You will be laid off and replaced by an outsourcing firm. That is a certainty.
What you have to decide is: - do you think the company will survive after (not to mention during) the project completion? - is the salary worth it to you to work the extra hours?
But, there is one thing to your advantage. If you quit you won't get unemployment benefits. If they fire you, you will. So call their bluff. Tell them that you will not work more than the agreed on amount. Let them fire you.
I last saw the Cluetrain Manifesto in the $1 book bin, with a pile of other "make money on dotcoms" books, at a book remainder dealer in a dying shopping mall.
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RedHat will receive 5000 resumes for Cox's job ...
That's more than what US developers make these days.
I saw an O'Reilly CD Bookshelf (networking, I think) in the Borders remainder bin last week, for $5.
The same Borders has cut its computer section by about two-thirds since 2001.
And when the company starts laying off, he'll keep his job and you won't.
Seriously. This is a person that has real power; make sure you remain on his good side.
Yeah, most programmers are now making $0K a year.
I have a 1989 Civic. 240K miles. Engine still running great.
No one was using Windows when this car was new. Linus Torvalds was still an undergraduate.
Disposable??
Its also the reason development has remained firmly at Redmond.
Not much longer. It's moving to Bangalore.
Really ...
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What company, in this economy, is going to upgrade?
What home user, in this economy, is going to upgrade?
(Someone give me a patch to remove Clippy, and I'll be satisfied with 2000 forever
She made a million bucks last year, and (if it was invested in anything other than music industry stock) doesn't have to work again.
I imagine even they are glad to see her go
She's "resigning to spend more time with her family", i.e. was fired.
That's probably because both Lovecraft and Tolkien's earlier works were influenced by Lord Dunsany.
No. These are the people that stay employed.
IBM has been laying off its own employees. What makes you think that they will want to keep Rational's?
They bought the company for the technology. Nothing else. Not the payroll. They are lying to you because it is in their interests to keep you working hard until they are ready to close the office.
Buyouts always lead to layoffs.
Actually, it would be more logical (gasp) to use the talking frog to generate money at circus-like shows.
For a refutation of this statement, see Jones, C., One Froggy Evening
My one-time employer had a room full of servers and test machines.
To keep them running 24/7, the machines were on an internal generator, not the standard power lines.
The air conditioners were on the standard power lines.
One Friday night, the local power company had a blackout.
What was found Monday morning is left as an exercise for the reader.
Wait six months. You'll see.
MBA or law degree. If you have a PhD in science or engineering, you can go into patent law or consulting - where the big bucks are.
Go for the MBA. You want to be the person that fires people, outsources jobs, and can get hired elsewhere for more money after you've run your company into bankruptcy.
This "evil owner"'s problem is that he did not communicate with his employees. If he had said: "look, we have problems here, I'm going to give you the honest truth about our finances, this is what we have to do, and I'm going to be working at least as hard as you if not harder to make this company survive so that it will reward all of us when it does" - then some people would have left; but others that trusted him might have taken the risk. Leaving the employees ignorant for fear that they might leave if they know the true story will destroy morale.
Absolutely.
You will be laid off and replaced by an outsourcing firm. That is a certainty.
What you have to decide is:
- do you think the company will survive after (not to mention during) the project completion?
- is the salary worth it to you to work the extra hours?
But, there is one thing to your advantage. If you quit you won't get unemployment benefits. If they fire you, you will. So call their bluff. Tell them that you will not work more than the agreed on amount. Let them fire you.
So what's next Slashdot? Alex Chiu life rings?/I?
Microsoft ads.
Probably out of work, like other (former) tech journalists I know. The only story these days is the economy.
I last saw the Cluetrain Manifesto in the $1 book bin, with a pile of other "make money on dotcoms" books, at a book remainder dealer in a dying shopping mall.
According to the NY Times story, skateboards will be the new focus.
Or our nearest neighbors like chimps and gorillas...
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Or George W. Bush