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   More costly than the article says...

   

   Withheld, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 6:33am

   
   

   A couple of good friends of mine in Toronto
   were amongst these layoffs. Were they deadwood?
   Nope! EDS layed off it's bid and proposal team!
   "We're not in need of any new business right now,
   we'll outsource your positions when needed."
   
   Yah EDS, I'll be buying your stock real soon...

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   THINK, MCFLY

   

   SB, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 9:59am

   
   

   If these morons' TERMINATIONS were DELAYED, in order to get around some severance rule, that means they WERE KEPT ON THE PAYROLL LONGER THAN WOUKD HAVE BEEN. FREE MONEY, IDIOTS
   
   You should be THANKING EDS for preserving your job for another 6 months. It's clear you would have been CUT long ago otherwise.
   
   I'm sure the INCOME from staying on the payroll, in many cases, exceeded the pidling severance they'd have gotten anyways.
   
   Of course, its always easiest to cite the extreme 68,000 hard luck case. I bet 90% of workers made out by staying on the payroll
   
   INGRATES
   MORONS
   

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   GREEDY BS

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 11:02am

   
   

   What a bunch of GREEDY CORPORATE BULLSHIT. It's breach of contract, basically, to weasel out of paying severance that the company had agreed to pay. It's even worse that they LIE and say that the date of the layoffs had nothing to do with the severance deal. I think eventually people are going to get SICK of this money-grubbing BULLSHIT, and you're going to see mobs of angry folks going door-to-door and dragging these execs out of their offices and through the streets!

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   Why murder should be legal

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 4:14pm

   
   

   It's people like that Dick Brown (what an apropriate name) that the world could due without. This whore was paid $55 million dollars to do... what. Instead of trying to find a way to survive on say $50 million dollars a year he thought it would be best to single handedly destroy 300 families in this economy. He deserves to die.

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   Re: THINK, MCFLY

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 4:15pm

   
   

   Troll.

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   Layoffs

   

   Dick Brown, Aug 20th, 2007 @ 6:58pm

   
   

   EDS is at it again. Laying off 600 workers at Weyerhaeuser due to losing the account to rival HP.
   
   HP will provide support with 600 workers from India.
   
   WARN notices are comming out this week.

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   Re: THINK, MCFLY

   

   in touch, Sep 3rd, 2008 @ 10:42am

   
   

   Oh yea, EDS keeps deadwood on the payrole all the time. Moron

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   james, Mar 26th, 2010 @ 11:07am

   
   

   EDS has such a bad reputation for bullying management, lying sales people, non delivery etc. I am just amazed that any company would want to do business with them. I am still surprised that HP wanted them, but if HP are as bad as EDS with their people management, then they deserve each other. The pity of it is that it is always the people at the lower levels that get the pain. Management looks out for itself, not its staff or customers, despite the rhetoric. People at EDS are not assets, just expenses.

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