Posted on 11/04/2008 10:39:28 PM PST by Stayfree
In a memo Monday, Dell asked employees throughout the company to consider taking off as many as five days without pay over the next three months. In addition, he said, the company would institute a hiring freeze, scale back some projects, offer voluntary severance packages and cut many of its contract workers.
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Did Dell give to 0bama?
Chances are, I will be asking a few employees to take more than 5 days off without pay.
Thanks, Obama!
tis life.... let’s see what happens.
hmm..I planned to buy a Dell by Christmas and the plot thickens.
one of their experts said a republican victory would have been better, and that this outcome will limit the US's ability to compete. oops!
Come on, now. Obama will just “think” about it and fix it. What are they worried about. He’s the messiah.
Obama’s Fault!
Ha ha, I can’t wait to tell my liberal, BO loving, he goings to save the world, neighbor who works for Dell about this!
He makes around $90K or more a year. Wonder how much he will love his precious BO after his taxes go up
I'm sure he can make a speech that covers this.
Hmmm. Seem to remember this wonderful Dell plant in NC, thanks to the oh-so-clever Democrat office holders to helped make it happen. Wonder if this affects NC.
Hmmm. Seem to remember this wonderful Dell plant in NC, thanks to the oh-so-clever Democrat office holders to helped make it happen. Wonder if this affects NC.
I’d spit on my Dell monitor but...(BTW I didn’t purchase it) nevermind.
Thanks. He gave big to republicans and select rats.
And so the Obamaconomy begins.
A lot of those who voted for the Messiah are big company employees who are far removed from the realities of small company, entrepreneurial life.
The Democrats are now the party of big business and big government. The GOP is the party of the entrepreneur, the people who don’t live in large cities and who want to be free and don’t want government colluding with business in an anti-competitive fashion. The GOP is now truly the part of Jefferson and Jackson.
Huh? Nikkie 225 is up 4.5% (up 406, to 9421) right ... now ....
You guys on FR are so smart!!! I would not have a clue where to pull all this information from!
Mark my words. Within a year these morons will be on their knees begging us for help...Just say no.
well hell, the top guys can always live on a little less.
There was a guy on here earlier from NY who said he had several Obama-swooning 20 year olds that were on his payroll. He said now that Obama & the Dems were going to raise his taxes, he was going to fire them all tomorrow and tell them that Obama’s win and his policies meant that he couldn’t afford to keep them on as employees. Voting blindly has consequences.
LOL, we can start using it already!
Time to change my tagline.
bttt
I agree
Michael Dell gives huge amounts of money to Republican candidates. Think before you post.
I love it, I hope he was serious.
I just purchased two Dell computers and they were significantly more expensive, perhaps 40% more, than the ones I bought last year.
Doubt it. Dell’s fairly well known as leaning conservative.
Michael Dell should close down the company and give the money back to the shareholders. After all, that’s what he said he’d do to Apple if he was in charge of it, and that was when Apple was a lot healthier than Dell is now.
I doubt Jobs would license OSX to anyone outside Apple, anyway, but most of the manufacturers are hostage to MS.
My brother just bought a new computer, and he was a big Dell fan, but went with Acer because he could get a bare bones system for about half the price.
This has nada to do with the election.
I have been saying the same thing for some time. When the Iowa 'rats hold their Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, I tell any (captive) audience about the irony of it all, and how Jackson would personally kick the living crap out of 99% of the 'rat officeholders* for being enemies of individual freedom.
Mr. niteowl77
*Yes, I know that as a man who believed in full measures, Jackson would probably actually shoot or stick them, but a phrase is a phrase. Jefferson would likely denounce them but shrink from physical confrontation... and then blame everything on Alexander Hamilton anyway.
I work for Dell and hardly liberal.
Tightening the belt is only Phase I of what many American companies will have to do to survive in thi global market.
KK
Timing is everything!
thi = this
AHHHH - I did think before I posted my reply.
I was referring to my neighbor, not Michael Dell.
My neighbor is a loud supporter of BHO who is convinced BHO will save the world.
“Michael Dell should close down the company and give the money back to the shareholders. After all, that’s what he said he’d do to Apple if he was in charge of it, and that was when Apple was a lot healthier than Dell is now.”
Oops!
Yes, you are right and I certianly hope your job is safe. I only meant to state that my neighbor is one of the many who believe that BHO is going to save the economy and world.
I’m very emotional right now and the way I feel is that I want him to know that he was wrong!!!!
Dell is being forced to upgrade their quality (due to customer complaints) and they’re discovering what Apple’s been saying all along - you really *can’t* build and sell a good computer for under $500.
To get even the cheapest Dells to an acceptable configuration gets them over the $500 mark easily.
I have heard about some businesses in different industries whose new orders have literally gone to ZERO in the last couple of weeks. Old, established businesses. It isn’t Obama’s fault (yet), but hopefully he will be blamed for it eventually.
“The GOP is now truly the part of Jefferson and Jackson.”
If that’s so, then they had better learn to open their mouths and make their case loudly, clearly, and convincingly. McCain was never able to make a strong case for capitalism because he never really believed in it himself. A warning sign I heard back in the primaries was when he criticized Romney for pursuing profit while he, McCain, pursued “honor.” When I heard that, I knew we would be in trouble if he became the nominee.
However, I’m not so sure the GOP really is the party of the small, innovative entrepreneur. A GOP president and a GOP congress (up till 2006) did nothing but spend — true, they managed to cut taxes and that increased the federal coffers. But government spending in and of itself is injurious to an economy.
Wonder what they are going to do when he makes this permanent?
Change we can count on.
This has nothing to do with Obama. It has everything to do with Dell being mismanaged and W’s rotten economy.
Have you taken a look at the Dell Board of Directors' donations?
but by then it was so high that even a nosedive couldn't make it close lower for the day.
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