[MinuteGal]

Motorola (Illinois) is laying off 800 workers (up to 4000 or more in the past two years) by Feb. 1, including a friend of mine, a financial accountant. His department is being moved to Poland ( ! ) where Motorola will hire and train 400 employees for R & D in either Krakow or Warsaw.

On a more bizarre anecdotal note, my moonlighting computer nerd was laid off his former job after actually being forced to train electronically his own replacement in EGYPT.

What's up is down, what's down is up.

Leni

[central_va]

We will become a harmless agrarian society, again. I think that is the goal. THe trick is to buy a couple of 100 acres and learn how to farm as a hobby. We are all Amish now. The Amish are the John Galt’s of our era.

[Reeses]

On a more bizarre anecdotal note, my moonlighting computer nerd was laid off his former job after actually being forced to train electronically his own replacement in EGYPT.

The national average IQ is 83 in Egypt, 81 in India. There's a reason they charge half price.