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To: Bilow who wrote (84718)	1/3/2000 12:25:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572777

Does this message make anyone think of any frequent posters on this thread??? <<< 10 - Message from Just separated from Intel, Senior Manager Dear Ken (and perspective FACEI members): I am a Sr. Manager who arrived at Intel last year from another high-tech firm and will be leaving shortly to take a job elsewhere. Since I arrived, I have seen my work environment go through a remarkable transformation, which I can only attribute to the downside earnings projections that began around December. That having been said, I am still appalled by the total lack of humanity with which Intel management treats its employees. I have worked at many large organizations across the US in the past ten years and I cannot remember one that promoted such a hostile and mean-spirited work environment. Having a technical background myself, I have become accustomed to being treated as a valued and protected corporate asset. To my complete shock and horror, Intel has taken the copy exactly process and perverted it's underlying philosophy to include human relations as well. The result is a kind of techno-fascism in which the personal element is minimized and those who rule do so through draconian methods and activities that are supremely dehumanizing and demoralizing, if not downright illegal. Thus far this year I have seen managers revel in the demise of their fellow workers (more appropriately adversaries) usually employing HR-legal and their trademark 'investigations' (read "inquisitions") as the mechanism for documenting competent and well-meaning technical people out of their jobs. Having been present during many a resource planning exercise, I find it incredible that more time is spent targeting and eliminating fellow workers than is spent realistically appraising the circumstances and making hard, but fair decisions. It is a world where paranoiac hysteria dictates the size of next year's budget and consequent accompanying resources. Reason seems to have no place here. It's not the act of downsizing that disturbs me as much as it is the relish with which management and HR take on the task, as if in the process, they were vanquishing their foes rather than their commiserating with their partners. The whole experience leaves me with a feeling of shock and depression that is best characterized by borrowing a line from the movie 'Congo' in which a main character states "These people spend their whole life waiting for the opportunity to settle scores, and there are a lot of scores to settle." In the last few months I have noticed other people (usually recent hires like myself) taking on an especially cynical attitude. More accurately, it is a fear-motivated, battle-worn, who's-behind-me kind of sentiment that breads nothing so much as alienation and hostility. I see the beginnings of an anti-Intel underground of which management is totally unaware, but the employees are not. These things threaten the fabric of what made Intel a great organization to begin with; creativity - the unique ability to see opportunities where others only see challenges, the facilities with which to quickly maneuver and take advantage of conditions that were hitherto unforeseen, the intellect and strength of purpose that leads people to anticipate the next problem and fix it while implementing the fix for the problem at hand. These attributes need the proper environment to survive. They cannot grow and develop in the elitist, hateful, intensely paranoid atmosphere of WW2 Germany. In the absence of that, whatever the future holds for Intel, it cannot be good. Because I work in Folsom, I am still hopeful that the experiences I have had are local manifestations and are not characteristic of the corporation as a whole. If this is the case, some serious house cleaning is in order, but the organization will survive. The phrase "whatever is to be done, it's better that it be done quickly" comes to mind here. If things do not change (and quickly), my knowledge of history tells me that soon, the only "corporate assets" Intel will have left will be a hardened core of Intel long-timers who feel politically immune (for whatever reason) to the ambitious, self-serving, cruel mentality of the reigning establishment. What kind of company that will be I don't even want to imagine. Anonymous by request faceintel.com >>> -- Carl P.S. The place I am currently engineering at is so pleasant that I absolutely love working there, even though I mostly work for food. The great work environment is due to their really caring about employees, trusting them with decisions, etc. Places like that are very hard to find.

To: Bilow who wrote (84718)	1/3/2000 7:41:00 AM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 1572777

Hi Carl: Agree totally. I have followed TXN since the early '80's and mentioned, in my first post I think, when discussing AMD's "paradigm shift" that the only other company that I'd seen demonstrating many of the same favourable technical and fundamental characteristics (most important being current undervaluation in marketplace) was TXN in 1995. In 1992 and 1995, there were many disbelievers in TXN, just as there are, at the moment, in AMD. Today's disbelievers will probably wait until the paradigm shift is confirmed at $63 (by April 21, call options expiry date, after release of Q1 earnings?).