Gatt writes:

Did I not mention that a whole hell of a lot of engineers, etc, lost their
jobs? Accountants, technicians, service employees...HP Corvallis just
about imploded and parts of their new campus were a ghost town last time I
was there.

HP is still firing people worldwide, even though it is turning a profit. It
is firing people because the profits aren't big enough.

You guys can justify it all you want, but, Hewlett Packard is a shell--a
joke--of what it was when I was there in 1993 when employees were happy,
jobs were secure and HP inket and laser printers were worldwide industry and
technology leaders.

Unfortunately true.