[GreenKeys] Bell Labs - True Innovation

[Steve Schlink]

And so went the brain trust of America.

Sold out for the egos of CEOs and short term profits and hence the stock price.

Gee I wonder why America is sliding into the third world...

And my biggest gripe:

The way that "The Unemployment Rate" is the Holy Grail of the economy 
making no distinction between a Bell Labs or HP job lost to a replacement 
Starbucks job.

</rant>

Steve

At 09:42 PM 2/27/2012 -0800, tony j. podrasky wrote:
>And after Carly Fiorina destroyed Lucent, she went after
>Hewlett-Packard.
>
>I don't know how many employees Lucent had - but Hewlett-Packard
>had around 150,000 as I recall.
>
>She *HATED* being told that "that isn't the way we do things here at
>Hewlett-Packard" SOOOOOO MUCHHHH - that she went out of her way
>to remove "Hewlett-Packard" and replace it with "HP".
>
>She wanted to get rid of the Hewlett-Packardites SO BADLY that she
>offered a severance package called the "15-50":
>
>If you were with Hewlett-Packard for at least 15 years.
>And were at least 50 years old.
>Here's what we'll give you to get the (heck) out of here:
>
>o You get ALL your vacation time paid-out.
>o You get ALL your sick time paid-out.
>o We'll give you a year's salary into your 401K - so it is tax-deferred.
>o We'll pick-up our share of major medical - for life.
>
>Well, - in THIS economy, if some one offers to pick up MAJOR MEDICAL,
>how long, do you think, it will take you - to come up with the RIGHT ANSWER?
>
>regards,
>W6ESE - tony
>NNNN
>ZCZC
>
>
>73131.3073 at compuserve.com wrote:
> >   Can you imagine - after the breakup, morale must have fallen off a
> > cliff!!!
> >
>
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>Tony J. Podrasky | Great truths about life that little children have learned:
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