HP adds to layoff tally, now plans 29,000 job cuts

http://money.msn.com ^ | 09/10/2012 | n/a

[massmike]

Hewlett Packard now plans to layoff 29,000 employees, increasing the total number of job cuts by 2,000 over the next two years as it tries to kickstart growth.

HP, which will cut jobs through a combination of involuntary cuts and early retirement offers, expects to take charges of about $3.3 billion through the end of HP's 2014 fiscal year for the workforce reductions, it said in a regulatory filing on Monday.

HP will likely have cut 11,500 jobs by end of fiscal 2012, the company has said.

[a fool in paradise]

I was run off when they took over Compaq.

[sushiman]

” Their PC/laptops have been poor for several years and I don’t recommend them to anyone. “

I can attest to this . My Touchsmart PC has been nothing but trouble from day 2 ( not even 3 years old yet ) and no matter how many tines it had to be sent in for various and sundry repairs when it was new they refused to exchange it , the bastards . Never again .

[wally_bert]

I’m going to at least one laser. My wife does a ton of mostly necessary (I guess) printing. I print very little myself.

[wally_bert]

I did some sub-contract work for HP (never again will I deal with those rip-off artists) and it was like a bad dream for a few weeks. I stuck with it since I needed the income.

I have also done some warranty field work on HP stuff and it is always was some pain involved. HP and their proprietary ways became extremely frustrating at times. I stay away from any service work involving HP.

I’ll stick with my Dells. Few if any complaints as a consumer or field tech.

[sushiman]

I’m going to try a Dell next time . Maybe a 17” laptop .

[KevinDavis]

Well Kodak is going away.. I’ll be surprised if they are still around..

[jaz.357]

Just got a Gateway. Happy as a pig in slop!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

More Obama unemployed former Democratic voters. How’s that “hopey, thingy” slogan going, guys? You can’t take it to the bank or the unemployment office.

You get your chance to strike back on Nov. 6th. Remember, vote Republican in November.

[wally_bert]

I was going to get another Dell laptop to replace my last one but Lenovo had a great sale on and I went with it. The old D810 was used when I bought it and I paid $30 for it and swapped the burner out. It gave me not quite 2 years. I gave it to a needy friend after a DBAN wipe and ubuntu linux install for him. I think it still works.

For what little I use the Lenovo (the droid does a lot) it works very well.

[rxsid]

"And yet the GOP thought it was a good idea to put Meg Whitman up against Moonbeam for governor.

FWIW, she wasn't involved with HP until 2011.

Additionally, if she had become guv of CA and cut the number of state employee's...well, that would have been a tremendous positive towards righting the s(t)inking SS CA.

[wally_bert]

My first tower was a Gateway back in the later 90s. A great and reliable PIII box. It was working after I gave it away a few years later.

Gateway seemed to go through a real low for a long while.

From what I read and hear things have improved a lot.

[sushiman]

Levovo doesn’t offer a 17” laptop here in Japan . This would be my main computer , replacing the HP 20” desktop , so 17” would be the smallest screen that’d work for me .

[matt04]

The older HP LaserJet 4000 series were nearly indestructible. I supported one that was somewhere in the 700K page rage and only normal wear and tear. Sadly, they do not like water from a fire hose.

I have a Brother HL-2070N B&W laser at home. It’s a little louder compared to similar HP’s but it has only needed regular supplies. Very rarely jams.

[af_vet_rr]

This looks like a pretty flagerant copy - perhaps HP would have been better off just abandoning the PC market when they made that announcement several months ago. HP can't afford a $1 Billion dollar judgement.

I don't know about the legal/design stuff, but I know that if people want to buy an iMac, they are going to buy an iMac, not an HP trying to look like an iMac.

That design reeks of either HP thinking they can fool some people into buying an HP, or not understanding what HP customers are after. If it's the first, people should be upset that HP thinks their that gullible. If it's the latter, stockholders should be upset.

HP and the other companies should take a page from Apple's design book though, not on the actual styling, but on the options and number of models. When there are a half a dozen variations of a model named "HP HP138-1365txyz" it doesn't really help customers. When you select a tower and then are presented with 12 different CPU options, most of which are like 0.10GHz or 0.20GHz apart or something, it doesn't help customers and it increases the complexity of your supply chain.

[wally_bert]

The 4000 series HP lasers sometimes seem to run forever.

[printhead]

Yeah, and those Texas offices all used to be Compaq offices. It all went to shi* on Carly’s watch.

[printhead]

It was more like Compaq took over HP. With HP’s money. I lasted 30 years until the speadsheets took over.

[jwsea55]

If she prints a real lot, I have a spreadsheet that can figure comparative pricing between different models. Sometimes it is long less expensive to get a more expensive printer with cheaper consumables (toner cartridges). Let me know and I can pass it along.

Brother makes some decent low end stuff. They only last a couple of years though. Print quality is acceptable for the price.

[matt04]

The one I mentioned was about about 14 years old and only had routine maintenance done on it until it took a shower when that part of the building it was in caught fire.

[Lexinom]

I've had an HP color laser printer - recently. Before that, I had a Brother black and white.

Brother hands-down. Here's why: When the HP laser cartridge gets below a certain threshold, it FORCES you - through firmware - to reorder.

Case in point: You work with a vendor company that demands faxes for all formal communications. You have an angry merchant demanding a solution. Money is tight. You DON'T CARE if the the printout has no black in it (purple or red or whatever is there is JUST FINE) because you're going through a FAX MACHINE - black and white.

The printer, nonetheless, forces you to go out and spend money you may not have.

The Brother, OTOH, simply became fainter and fainter as the drum ran low on toner. It did not force me to do anything; I could buy toner at a time that was convenient for me.

Not sure why we ended up replacing it; I think my (now ex-) wife bought a color printer on a whim and we needed space for it.

I really resent this corporate "you MUST give us money, now, to use our product" philosophy, esp. for what I now understand is an inferior product. Perhaps this kind of thinking is but one bit of anecdotal rationale for why Hewlett-Packard is now facing layoffs.

Does that help?