On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Martin Schlander
But you should always look inwards as well. If there was some proper official communication done, maybe reporters and community members wouldn't have to speculate like crazy about what the hell is going on, and go through a prolonged and extremely painful process of learning about people we care about and enjoy working with have been fired - slowly and painfully one name at a time for a period of weeks and weeks.
While I agree we could have communicated more effectively, I do want
to note a few things: Novell is a public company, and has some
restrictions on what it can say (and when). In part, poor
communication may be caused by an overabundance of caution -- rather
than a desire to withhold information or a lack of desire to inform
the community of what's going on.
Also, while I understand the desire to know who's been affected, I
don't think it would be appropriate for Novell to post a list of those
affected by the layoff. (Not to mention, probably not a legally sound
practice, either.)
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier