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   why

   

   Sean, Aug 27th, 2005 @ 2:23am

   
   

   Why would that make me feel good? The 40 employees where more than likely you average run of the mill type employees like secretaries, janitors, clerks, and coders. Those sorts of employees don't have any impact on the decisions the company makes, and now their out of a job.
   
   - Sean

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   Re: why

   

   Nathan, Aug 27th, 2005 @ 5:24pm

   
   

   The coders certainly have an impact on those decisions. They wrote the code that is responsible for the behavior of the program. They are the ones that caused it.

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   Re: why

   

   Sean, Aug 27th, 2005 @ 11:06pm

   
   

   That's not really the point I was trying to make. While people should be happy about the layoffs because it's a sign the company is going under, the article makes it sound like we should be happy because people are loosing their jobs.
   I still don't blame the coders, because sometimes feeding your family takes precedence over your own ethics.
   - Sean

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   Re: why

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 28th, 2005 @ 1:03am

   
   

   I can be a few steps higher then their ethics and be happy about those layoffs.

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   There is a source for the story

   

   "The Friend", Sep 2nd, 2005 @ 11:01am

   
   

   Nobody should be happy about a company laying off half of its employees.
   
   I am a company insider, still with a job. And just want to say that Rebecca Lieb's story that she posted on her blog is 100% accurate. She protected the name of her source as not to cause any additional harm, and so that person could continue to keep their job.
   
   Should she have "outted" the source, and effectively caused them to lose their job in addition to the others? I think not.
   
   Why are unnamed sources ok for political stories in the New York Times but not for ClickZ??
   
   

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   Re: There is a source for the story

   

   Matt, Sep 18th, 2005 @ 12:24pm

   
   

   Hey people,
   
   Let me say this about that...Direct Revenue employees are taking money from ignorant people that
   are more than willing to shell out the cash to remove there software at tech centers. DR capalized on others stupidity.

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