Informal Poll WAS RE: [geeks] Laid off blues

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:46:48PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> When suits are involved, anything is possible.  Once you get
> profitability, someone will decide to hire 20 or 30 more vice presidents.

An actual quote, from ConnectSouth (now that they're gone, I can name
them..):

"We're going to hire 250 more sales people and buy them computers, but 
 you'll have to make do with only 3 people in systems administration"

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX