[shawv]

I am part of this.... Anyone looking for a Technical Trainer, or Technical Writer in the S.F. Bay area, or Roseville, CA area? (c:

[eno_]

Lucent, Nortel, Ericcson, and Alcatel are dinosaurs like Wang, Data General, and Digitalwere 15-20 years ago. HP is doomed due to the Vampire Queen from Lucent running the show. Anyone who thinks this situation is unique hasn't been around long enough. If they succeed in implementing Palladium, we will all be remarking on how the mighty Microsoft fell. Nothing is permanent.

[VOA]

Kodak Colorado, which cut 150 jobs a year ago, is in the midst of a second round of
layoffs as it tries to recover from a slump in film sales this year, mostly due to
the softening economy nationwide.

It's sad to watch a former crown-jewel of American industry (OK, film technology)
in a death spiral.

The tough news for Kodak is that there will probably never be anything but a slump
in film sales from now on.
The should have seen the future...but just didn't know what to do about it.

I remember trying a Kodak digital camera two years ago.
I couldn't help but thinking...someone at Kodak has lost their minds.
They seem to have intentionally made their digital cameras very heavy and clunky
in hopes camera users would stay with film cameras.

Too bad someone didn't tell them that the competition had already had learned how to make
similarly-powered cameras that were lighter and easier to use...
All the same, I hope they make some sort of stunning comeback. Lord knows I did what I could
by always buying Kodak film...

[MonroeDNA]

The Sky Is Falling (TSIF) Willie alert!

Whoop whoop whoop!!!!

Willie posts bad news on jobs. It's his job. Ignore him.

[jrhepfer]

I've been in tech for about 6 years. I worked my a** off and climbed up quick. I watched for the most indespensible skills and made sure I had them (as far as networks and network operating systems were concerned). I've done well and am secure. But the bad thing I've noticed it that technology departments are not treated like a utility, more like an option.

The first places corps seem to like to cut is Marketing and IT. I haven't figured out why yet. In my mind (biased? no doubt) IT is like a utility... when you need more electricity you get it. When you need more technology, you get it. On paper, however, IT ROI is more like Marketing's ROI. It's very difficult to gauge on many implementations and the ROI must be gauged indirectly. When you need to run wiring for a bigger/faster piece of equipment, you can easily see your efficiencies go up. Since much of our world deals with a human interface, you can speed up the equipment all you want but some people will sitll farm the work just to keep on the payrolls.

[ChadGore]

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