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Well, as a company EMC's heart is in the right place.

Thanks. I don't understand the socialist comment by "the gillman@blacklagoon.com".

The culture here is to treat everyone with the respect they deserve. No one is taking my paycheck and donating it to those that make less.

Only bigots believe that treating someone with respect even though they are different is socialism.

Some things can not be easily explained.

You seem like a good guy. Perhaps things have changed there.

I used to do technical consulting. My time in the collective left a foul taste in my mouth that will never go away. Not all can be assimilated.

One should not retain every slight. As a rule, those who demean you should be ignored and soon forgotten, but some can not be borne.

Thanks. I don't understand the socialist comment by "the gillman@blacklagoon.com".

I just did a search on the lca database on EMC. http://www.zazona.com/LCA-Data/. Why did EMC get 3,249 H-1B Visa's in 2001? This is a very typical pattern. Hire thousands of foreigners on H-1B visa and then have a lay off and get rid of Americans. Does the comment make sense now?

The culture here is to treat everyone with the respect they deserve.

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh out loud at this comment.

As one of EMC's former customers, EMC's policies towards us was to ride roughshod over us, our storage, our storage policies and otherwise treat us so badly that we took our business elsewhere. The pricing on the technically inferior product that EMC was selling was more than 2x their competition (HDS for example.)

While we weren't one of EMC's largest customers in the area, when we dumped EMC it sent shock waves through EMC and in fact some of EMC's other customers.

Having been threatened with legal action against me by EMC for telling their other customers (who've solicited my opinions of the technology, I didn't approach them) why we switched - I will personally attest to EMC's brash, abrasive and abusive practices towards it's (now) former customers.

It'll be a cold day in hell before I allow an EMC storage unit in any of our offices around the world. And yes, I'm the person who makes that decision in the company I work for. I can make that statement with 100% confidence.