[SunRescue] Rant on industry employment practices, was RE: 16 MB memory module for Voyager

[steve price]

how 'bout before it was "enable" - it was higgins
software - i remember it well...

--- Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar at e2ecorp.com> wrote:
> Was that 'Enable Software' as in the company that
> wrote a suite of software
> (for MSDOS) called 'Enable' that combined word
> processing, spreadsheet,
> database and graphics?  Man, I really really loved
> that package . . no don't
> laugh, it was my first word processor and I spent a
> lot of skull sweat in
> the Marines learning it's ins/outs so I could teach
> _other_ jarheads how to
> type letters ...
> 
> brian
> 
> 
> When I worked for Enable Software (a long time
> ago!), I watched all sorts of
> layoffs, including the "let's not fire the managers,
> lets get rid of the
> most senior employee in each department" trick. 
> Amazingly stupid people.
> 
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