"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
news
writes:

Plus, HP has been
laying off so many people in Boise that there are lots of folks in the
market for an engineering position.

HP is laying off people everywhere. The decline at HP started when it
become
a publicly-held company with anonymous stockholders. Every company that
changes owners in that way goes down the same path.


Oh, ok. So now you're an economist.