On Thursday 10 November 2005 1:09 am, Phil Savoie wrote: <extranous snipped>
But seeing as how we have a Novel office in Ottawa, Canada, where I live, and have been fully warned not to work there as (I have heard) they treat their employees like a sweatshop operation. Seeing how key personnel from SuSE are leaving one by one, I think the writing is on the wall.
The last time I saw key people leaving a company I worked for like this, it went belly up within a year.
Could be worse, you could work for MS. Read some of the hand picked "investigative reports" such as 'Bill Gates Hard Drive' speaking of a sweatshop phiew !!! IN a tightening economy the first thing companies seem to do to make Wall Street happy ( and keep their stock prices up ) is at least announce a lay off. Which of course sounds good to those * Street* folks thinking that the "fat" is being trimmed.. It isn't middle management usually is safe, upper management is Sacrosanct and can't be touched .. that leaves secretaries, and the grunts.. ( you know, those of the rest who work for their living ;-D ) Two or three of the upper middle management or top management would save the company the same dollar amount. Especially if you include those absurd Golden or platinum "parachutes" But the logic of not getting rid of those idiots is, they would have to hire someone else at about the same money .. and better the dog you know, I guess..
Certainly hope this doesn't happen with SuSE. I feel their product is outstanding and more than that extremely stable for what my needs are. It just seems a pity that whenever a company acquires another, it's always the old way is bad and the acquiring company's way is always the best and only way.
There is always the Hole card for Suse, that IBM is behind a lot of the machinations.. Still , one wishes Hubert Mantel all the best, and if his next company be as successful he will be happier and probably wealthier. After all Free Software seems to have done very well for our Lodestar .. Linus. I just wish he wasn't quite so close to the MS campus.. I am certain breathing the air there is dangerous to ones health.. ;-) -- j Morning, Evolution in action. only the grumpy will survive