Re:Never understood this attitude (Score 1)

I can honestly say when Oracle laid me off, I wasn't scared. But yes, I was sad... and frustrated. Sad that they didn't leave the jobs here. Sad that they thought more of cost savings then they did of keeping jobs local. Call me nievely idealistic if you want. For a global company (and believe me, they were pushing to be global in every aspect I heard about), it makes sense. You need cost savings (cheap labor, land costs, etc.), a world presence and to maximaze your value/dollar spent. So I was sad to see my job given to 3 people because they cost less. Yay for them, they were/are good people, but it didn't make me happy about the situation. Frustrated because through it all, we got the pleasure of training all the people who were our replacements. Isn't that a joy? By the way, we're letting you go in 8 months time and in that period you get to write up all your job descriptions (work this into the SOX program, whee!) and train. It's not a promise that those who are let go end up in better jobs. Maybe you think those that don't aren't trying hard enough. The last few years have not generally been good for the people in the tech industry. Many companies are simply not hiring, prefering to either outsource more or use staffing agencies to get the same labor at a cheaper rate then if they had to payroll benefits and social security costs. Thankfully at this time, as I understand it , the silicon valley currently has many job openings to take in those being fired so at least those being let go have some small bright spot. (Google alone has 547 openings as stated in a business magazine 2.0 article)