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To: fedhead who wrote (92487)	1/28/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Anyone with thoughts on MU. I sold and then bought some back yesterday? Today there is another downgrade based on SDRAM pricing. MU is trading at a share price below AMZN but MU has decent profits. Please help this lost soul<G>

To: fedhead who wrote (92487)	1/29/2000 10:50:00 AM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<Maybe AMZN just layed off the underperformers. I don't think it means much.> My current thinking is this. Bezos knows Wall Street will loath Amazon's upcoming Power Buildout report. So Amazon is making a very visible, if only symbolic, effort to "control expenses." Tangentially, the move eliminates 2% of the deadwood. But that is not the primary motivation here. Bottom line: LOOK OUT BELOW! Heading for point north. Seeya.

To: fedhead who wrote (92487)	1/29/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Many tech companies routinely put the bottom 5 or 10 % of their work force under probation and lay them off if their performance doesn't improve. I'm trying to determine if this was primarily warehouse staff... seems I read that somewhere but of course I can't find it now. There really isn't anything you can do with warehouse people once the holidays are over. What I don't get is why they need so many bodies in the warehouse working - it should be fully automated like the ones I am familiar with. Maybe toys requires manual pick/pack/ship... ?. My company is moving a homogeneous product through an automated warehouse with almost no staff... books should be like that, toys... I don't know.