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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (12371)	1/30/2003 3:26:34 PM
From: tonka552000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Says it like it is...from Pud's www.fuckedcompany.com...sorry for language... RECENT F&CKS Report news \| General discussion \| View archives \| Play the deadpool Uh oh Rumor has it the IBM-purchase target of February 1 has been pushed back "a few months" and Rational employees were told to keep mum about "anything and everything in regards to IBM, IBM's purchase of Rational and the possibility of IBM backing out due to concerns over the stock price." Umm, so yeah, looks like IBM is having second thoughts. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Rational Software Severity: 90 Points: 190 0 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Thomas unemployed 53 employees fired from Thomas Register according to this internal memo. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Thomas Regster Severity: 75 Points: 175 2 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Daisies Rumor has it Teleflora just laid off about 100 of its 800 employess. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Teleflora Severity: 35 Points: 135 1 comment in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Cnut 11 former Cnet (Ziff Davis) staff in two cities are for sale and Cnet is none to happy about it, according to cease & desist note from the lawyers. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Cnet Severity: 35 Points: 130 35 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! AOHell AOL lost Ted and almost $100 billion. When: 1/30/2003 Company: AOL Time Warner Severity: 80 Points: 164 30 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Go postal 58,000 disgruntled postal workers laid off. watch out. When: 1/30/2003 Company: USPS Severity: 75 Points: 175 3 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Bet Xerox wished they made shredders now KPMG be indicted for cooking the books at Xerox, yo. When: 1/30/2003 Company: KPMG Severity: 85 Points: 182 3 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! ASS-Enter Rumor has it Accenture is closing their Kansas City office. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Accenture Severity: 65 Points: 161 5 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Run Two top execs jumped Sprint's sinking ship. When: 1/30/2003 Company: Sprint Severity: 75 Points: 172 20 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Earth wind and fired Wild shit-storm at dialup ISP, Earthlink. Here's the internal memo sent to all employees. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Earthlink Severity: 80 Points: 177 148 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Crapped out Dice.com declared bankruptcy. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Dice Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee! Points: 200 121 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Pointy Well apparently Fort Point Partners is finally closing up shop this Friday, with just a few left hanging around scratching their balls for the "transition". Should I post the top secret spreadsheet of who gets booted, who sticks around for transition and who stays...? moral dilemma... okay it's in InternalMemos.com. Not as fun as that 400+ employee salary list from Lycos, but still interesting... blah When: 1/28/2003 Company: Fort Point Partners Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee! Points: 200 47 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Stalled Rumor has it Travelocity's SF office is closing and all employees are either being shipped to Dallas or canned... When: 1/28/2003 Company: Travelocity Severity: 80 Points: 178 23 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Bigchoke Rumor has it half of Bigchalk.com will be laid off sometime this week or next. Word is the PA office is shutting completely. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Bigchalk.com Severity: 85 Points: 185 14 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Tossed out at 30,000 feet Delta Air Lines cut almost 4,000 employees. Word is the bad news was delivered to unlucky employees over the phone -- and most Field Managers in US demoted to Sales Reps. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Delta Air Lines Severity: 50 Points: 150 13 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Lookfart Hey look FC favorite Looksmart.com posted a profit. weird. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Looksmart Lucked: 40 Points: 139 7 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Level two Genuity to lay-off one-third of work force and complete merger with Level 3. Hey at least the key execs paid themselves $17 million in KERP (Key Executive Retention Policy) plan to stick around to the end... When: 1/28/2003 Company: Genuity Severity: 90 Points: 188 15 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Dayam Rumor has it Intel management just announced that they will not be paying out any "merit" pay increases. Word is this is the third year in a row Intel has restrained raises. Remember last week when the COO cashed out 900,000 options for about $18 million cash? That's gotta make his employees feel just dandy..... When: 1/28/2003 Company: Intel Severity: 80 Points: 174 116 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Endo Bike maker Cannondale to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Cannondale Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee! Points: 200 107 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Rash 113 employees laid off, according to this internal memo to Bristol-Myers Squibb employees. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb Severity: 35 Points: 135 9 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Gates of hell Rumor has it non-production staff at Gateway are being force to take more unpaid days off -- 1 day in Jan, 1 day in Feb, 2 days in March, and 4 days in April. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Gateway Severity: 80 Points: 175 17 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Jesus! Don't forget to get your free email name at Catholic.org, such as "sodomy@catholic.org" and so on..! Also comes with 20 MB free storage for all your pr0n. When: 1/28/2003 Company: Catholic.org Severity: 5 Points: 105 154 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Freefall Rumor has it FreeMarkets.com just laid off over 70 people and the head honcho is stepping down. When: 1/28/2003 Company: FreeMarkets.com Severity: 90 Points: 190 22 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Toilet log Rumor has it about 10% were just laid off from G-Log. When: 1/28/2003 Company: G-Log Severity: 50 Points: 150 7 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Aboot time "Be thankful for your 3% raise!" is basically what this memo to IBM's US employees says. Canadian 2003 compensation details in this internal memo. When: 1/27/2003 Company: IBM Severity: 45 Points: 139 43 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Search Rumor has it Google is cutting staff. Word is no pay raises at annual review as PPC (pay-per-click) and CPM (cost-per-thousand) growth is stalling. Still, from what I hear, I wouldn't really call Google f&cked as of yet... maybe just a Spring cleaning... When: 1/27/2003 Company: Google Severity: 15 Points: 113 101 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Return Die From one FC reader, "Pud, stop smoking cock and report on how these fuckheads [Return Buy] pissed through about $40 million in VC trying to resell crap that consumers didn't want in the first place." My favorite line, "we thought to deal with big companies we had to have a big cost structure." Translation: "We figured a BMW for every employee and a pool table in every cube made us more attractive for future investment." When: 1/27/2003 Company: Return Buy Severity: 80 Points: 180 17 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Today's bitch Most people don't wear suits to work anymore. Or as one FC reader put it, "See the trend. See the trend run. Ignore the trend. You're out of fashion." 56 execs and others laid off. When: 1/27/2003 Company: Today's Man Severity: 75 Points: 175 41 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! BadThings GoodThings.com is shutting down. When: 1/27/2003 Company: GoodThings.com Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee! Points: 200 16 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! Food Okay, it's almost February 2003 and the owner of this f&cking restaurant chain actually blames September 11th AND Enron for losing his three restaurants. Couldn't he blame it on the death of Ted Williams too and go three-for-three? When: 1/27/2003 Company: Peter George Restaurants Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee! Points: 200 26 comments in the Happy Fun Slander Corner! View more in the archives