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HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« on: May 24, 2012, 06:40:39 PM »
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HP to cut 27,000 jobs


SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard plans to jettison 27,000 workers as the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers.

The cuts announced Wednesday represent the HP’s largest payroll purge in its 73-year history.

The reductions will affect about eight per cent of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s nearly 350,000 employees by the time the overhaul is completed in October 2014.

HP hopes to avoid as many layoffs by offering early retirement packages. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1183112--hewlett-packard-to-cut-27-000-workers?bn=1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002721707

How can this be? I keep hearing how wonderful the economy is doing and how we desperately need 4 more years of 0bama to continue with this great prosperity.  :lmao:

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6. Just Meg Whitman creating jobs...

Oh wait!

Maybe 0bama will swoop in and save them.

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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 06:42:17 PM »
A liberal friend of mine, yesterday, blamed this on Bush and his tax cuts.  :mental:
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2012, 06:44:07 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on May 24, 2012, 06:42:17 PM
A liberal friend of mine, yesterday, blamed this on Bush and his tax cuts.  :mental:

Everything bad for the next 100 years will be Chimpy's fault.  :-)
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2012, 06:45:03 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on May 24, 2012, 06:44:07 PM
Everything bad for the next 100 years will be Chimpy's fault.  :-)

Isn't that the truth.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2012, 07:18:48 PM »
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6. Just Meg Whitman creating jobs...

Oh wait!

Yeah she should follow the union way, don't innovate, restructure or reorganize just ultimately go bankrupt.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2012, 07:22:06 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 24, 2012, 07:18:48 PM
Yeah she should follow the union way, don't innovate, restructure or reorganize just ultimately go bankrupt.

Does Obama know about this?







Hell yeah and he don't care.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2012, 07:50:01 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 24, 2012, 07:18:48 PM
Yeah she should follow the union way, don't innovate, restructure or reorganize just ultimately go bankrupt.

They act like they don't know who has absolute power over California, and it sure isn't Whitman.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2012, 07:51:51 PM »
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Just Meg Whitman creating jobs...

Oh wait!

Primitive, your user name explains your blind allegiance.

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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2012, 09:15:43 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on May 24, 2012, 06:42:17 PM
A liberal friend of mine, yesterday, blamed this on Bush and his tax cuts.

That's almost as dumb as blaming Obama for "the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers."

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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2012, 10:02:38 PM »
HP cutting jobs has nothing to do with either Bush or Obama.  They failed to innovate and reorganize to the changing market.  Plus, you had the previous CEO declare they were going to be a consulting company and slashing the price of their tablet within weeks of it's debut.  Poor management.  HP is now, supposedly, changing their direction and consequently needs to reorganize to be a leaner organization.  HP didn't see what was coming and now are trying to remain relevant.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2012, 10:44:59 PM »
27k jobs lost will, according to the owebuma number crunchers, reduce  unemployment  to below 8%. And just in time for the campaign season.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2012, 10:54:53 PM »
DUmpmonkey forgot to mention that the figure will only affect 8%.
For those folks, I wish them well.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2012, 10:59:42 PM »
Quote from: Skul on May 24, 2012, 10:54:53 PM
DUmpmonkey forgot to mention that the figure will only affect 8%.
For those folks, I wish them well.

Saying it's only 8% is minimizing the numbers though.  27k is a lot of people.  I wish them well, as do you.  Hopefully HP does this correctly.  Where I work they offered the executives a buy out to minimize excess middle management, and then shifted around structure under that.   I think that's what tends to happen to larger organizations, too many middle managers.  Consolidation and streamlining helps a lot.  I hope HP finds the right path and then sets up a good strategic organization that they were obviously lacking. 
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2012, 11:04:18 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on May 24, 2012, 10:59:42 PM
Saying it's only 8% is minimizing the numbers though.  27k is a lot of people.  I wish them well, as do you.  Hopefully HP does this correctly.  Where I work they offered the executives a buy out to minimize excess middle management, and then shifted around structure under that.   I think that's what tends to happen to larger organizations, too many middle managers.  Consolidation and streamlining helps a lot.  I hope HP finds the right path and then sets up a good strategic organization that they were obviously lacking. 
When there's that much pain inflicted on a company's workforce, the CEO, or COB, or whomever is the company's highest ranking officer should be sent packing too, with the same proportional severance package afforded to the rest being terminated.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2012, 11:07:40 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on May 24, 2012, 11:04:18 PM
When there's that much pain inflicted on a company's workforce, the CEO, or COB, or whomever is the company's highest ranking officer should be sent packing too, with the same proportional severance package afforded to the rest being terminated.

Alas, such a perfect world has yet to be conceived!

Plus, Whitman is a new CEO righting the path (supposedly) from the previous.  HP could become another Kmart - failure to perceive the upcoming market and adjust accordingly.  I'll be watching the next few years to see what happens to HP. 
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2012, 11:09:16 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on May 24, 2012, 11:07:40 PM
Alas, such a perfect world has yet to be conceived!

Plus, Whitman is a new CEO righting the path (supposedly) from the previous.  HP could become another Kmart - failure to perceive the upcoming market and adjust accordingly.  I'll be watching the next few years to see what happens to HP. 

Any commander in the US armed forces who displayed that kind of dereliction would be relieved. Just sayin'
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2012, 11:12:06 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on May 24, 2012, 11:09:16 PM
Any commander in the US armed forces who displayed that kind of dereliction would be relieved. Just sayin'

Well, I see what you're saying.  The business world isn't run like the armed services, for better or worse.  I will give Whitman a chance as the new commander to make the changes she feels necessary to correct the previous administration's decisions.  To me it's hard to fault a CEO that decides it's time to streamline based on the ineffectual leadership that came before them.  :)
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2012, 12:29:18 AM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on May 24, 2012, 11:12:06 PM
Well, I see what you're saying.  The business world isn't run like the armed services, for better or worse.  I will give Whitman a chance as the new commander to make the changes she feels necessary to correct the previous administration's decisions.  To me it's hard to fault a CEO that decides it's time to streamline based on the ineffectual leadership that came before them.  :)
Bush did it....and the Jooooos.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2012, 07:47:55 AM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on May 24, 2012, 10:02:38 PM
HP cutting jobs has nothing to do with either Bush or Obama.  They failed to innovate and reorganize to the changing market.  Plus, you had the previous CEO declare they were going to be a consulting company and slashing the price of their tablet within weeks of it's debut.  Poor management.  HP is now, supposedly, changing their direction and consequently needs to reorganize to be a leaner organization.  HP didn't see what was coming and now are trying to remain relevant.
ding, ding, ding.

HP is teh sux.  I know, I worked for them for three years.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2012, 08:41:05 AM »
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ding, ding, ding.

HP is teh sux.  I know, I worked for them for three years.

piss test?  :fuelfire:
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2012, 08:41:33 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 25, 2012, 08:41:05 AM
piss test?  :fuelfire:
Laid off.  Twice.
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2012, 08:42:18 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on May 25, 2012, 08:41:33 AM
Laid off.  Twice.

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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2012, 09:32:50 AM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on May 24, 2012, 10:02:38 PM
HP cutting jobs has nothing to do with either Bush or Obama.  They failed to innovate and reorganize to the changing market.  Plus, you had the previous CEO declare they were going to be a consulting company and slashing the price of their tablet within weeks of it's debut.  Poor management.  HP is now, supposedly, changing their direction and consequently needs to reorganize to be a leaner organization.  HP didn't see what was coming and now are trying to remain relevant.

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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2012, 09:36:36 AM »
These big companies often get very fat around the middle.  Any of us who's worked for one has seen it happen.  Political battles are won and lost, fiefdoms are grown.  All of a sudden you have things like

Executive Director for Best Practices, with a staff of 15 Assistants
Management Specialist, Diversity Initiatives, with staff of 5 Associates
Manager, Wellness and Fitness, with staff of 10 Deputies

It can be just like government, the lard creeps in.  Sometimes you gotta clean house.  
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Re: HP to cut 27,000 jobs
« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2012, 10:24:27 AM »
If 0bama was running HP the headline would read 311,000 jobs saved or created at HP!!
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