03-12-2009, 05:19 PM
Eccchhhh. I hate that feeling, even though you survived, the morale there must be in the dumps. Same thing here, but being a university, the full professors with tenure are safe, but us administrative types can be dropped with two weeks notice. No changes here until the end of the school year. I might be safe for a year or so but other positions are getting the axe.
Big layoff I was in took 2500 people. In our department, they took us, managers and their managers, which was just about all of Apple's manufacturing R&D. Product life cycles were getting so short they decided all the R&D expenses could be outsourced, picked up and dropped as needed. But that was in the days when Apple built computers here stateside. I don't know if A even builds them anymore.
The day the news came, it was like we were all cowering in the henhouse with a hawk circling overhead. Never will forget that.
Best wishes to you if you've been axed.
Big layoff I was in took 2500 people. In our department, they took us, managers and their managers, which was just about all of Apple's manufacturing R&D. Product life cycles were getting so short they decided all the R&D expenses could be outsourced, picked up and dropped as needed. But that was in the days when Apple built computers here stateside. I don't know if A even builds them anymore.
The day the news came, it was like we were all cowering in the henhouse with a hawk circling overhead. Never will forget that.
Best wishes to you if you've been axed.