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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3365)	2/20/2004 3:32:32 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Its easier for the pea-brained to blame it on Bush...requires no thought process.....

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3365)	2/20/2004 3:32:37 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

if the Bush people try to use arguments like this they will be shot down. This recovery has created far more tech jobs than we had in the bubble. Thousands and thousands of tech jobs have been created in india and china. The employment "bubble" of the 90s is nothing compared to what we have now. The issue is where these people are physically located. To prove it look at the #employees from many major companies- IBM, Cisco, Intel etc. Higher employees now than the 90s. Far fewer employees in the USA though.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3365)	2/20/2004 3:53:55 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Lizzie, Jake and JLA. This is a true email, I just received from a colleague of mine, a ace computer professional with wide experience of having worked in the DARPA project etc. in Washington DC. I have blanked out some references to protect identity. So here goes from a very good and professional colleague of mine. Like the others, I am furious and Bush needs to go. He should loose his job first before we think of getting jobs for the others. Dear Friends and Colleagues, As many of you are aware, last Tuesday, 10 Feb., I was laid off from "the Company". I was told that my position in "the Company's" IT Engineering Group was eliminated based on the assessment of "the Company's" business and staffing needs. When I came to "the Company" from Digital Equipment Corp./Compaq about five years ago, I did so after having been a consultant to "the Company" on and off for about five years. My reasons for joining "the Company" were many. I think the primary reason was because of the great people I had been working with and would continue working with. "The company" was a special place for me because there was the feeling that we were all contributing to something greater than any one of us – we were contributing to not only the quality of other people's lives, but sometimes to the extension of their very lives. For the last 10 years I have been proud to have worked with you all - my friends and colleagues at "the Company". I have learned a great deal from you all and I hope that I had provided you all the level of technical service and excellence that you had come to expect from me. Working with some of the brightest people in the industry has made my time at "the Company" very humbling and all the more worthwhile. Thank you. What makes me the most proud is that together we had helped make a difference to what counts the most – the lives of the patients that "the Company's" innovative medicines are geared for. I regret that I will not be able to continue to contribute to this most worthwhile mission. Saying farewell has always been difficult for me. It's rare that it has taken me over a week to compose so few sentences but these words are to people who I care about and for many, I have considered extensions of my family for the last 10 years. Thank you for your advice, your insight, and especially your friendship. Please do keep in touch. I would love to hear from my friends at "the Company". My contact information is as follows: Please feel free to forward this email. I have tried to include as many people whose e-mail I can remember but I'm sure I have missed some people. The very best of luck to all of you in your future endeavors. Jim -- ========================================================================= "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~Winston S. Churchill =========================================================================