OT : HP may diminish the number of layoffs

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According to the Mayor of grenoble who met HP's vice-presidents
in California.
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Makes sense that if you have an agreement to lighten up on the taxes in
order to get jobs that there may be some leverage to not lay people off.
Maybe they threatened to collect on past taxes not paid due to backroom
handshakes.
 
Adam Russell said:
Makes sense that if you have an agreement to lighten up on
the taxes in order to get jobs that there may be some
leverage to not lay people off. Maybe they threatened to
collect on past taxes not paid due to backroom handshakes.
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HP's problem is too many model changes, and lack of a standard
operating system...each of their buggy wonders has its own
tricks and its difficult for them to hire and train help desk
people who can sort it out efficiently...also on a DSL account
it takes 2 hours to download a driver for a combo printer
scanner fax that washes dishes, phones home, and changes
diapers. Too much crap on one machine same with
Microsoft.

the chinese are about to eat both companies alive with much
simpler products..and drivers (linux based)


Phil Scott
 
HP's problem is too many model changes, and lack of a standard
operating system
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Right, we really need a "standard" operating system. One size
fits all ...




... hackers.
 
Adam Russell said:
Makes sense that if you have an agreement to lighten up on the taxes in
order to get jobs that there may be some leverage to not lay people off.
Maybe they threatened to collect on past taxes not paid due to backroom
handshakes.
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I'm not up on all the stuff going on in Europe, but I do know that a year or
so back the French Government convinced big business to adopt a 32 hour work
week but employees would still get 40 hours of pay. Also, the government
expected those businesses to hire more people to cover the now vacant time
slots. In order to do this fairly the government did make corporate tax
concessions. (From the point of view of the government, it made more sense
to keep a bigger chunk of the population employed which means more income
taxes)

Germany has had a national 4-day work-week for years now but I don't know
whether there were corporate tax concessions made to enable it.

I guess I don't need to mention that 60 hour work weeks were the norm 80
years ago

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html
 
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