Jay Honeck wrote:

Perhaps this is why they are no longer employing so many people?

There was certainly a distinct feeling to that effect amongst low-level employees. I
recall during some of the 2002 layoffs, it was explained to a friend of mine that
they were laying off low-level employees, but they were keeping their managers so
that they would have their strategy layer intact and could "spring ahead" when the
economy improved. Her opinion of this was that the people they were keeping were the
people who were responsible for the company's problems.

I still wouldn't go that far, but I *did* roll over the company stock in my 401K to
another fund a while back.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.