Comment I definitly agree (Score 1) 449
Not only has this practice been going on for quite some time but even if it had just started why should anyone be shocked?
I'm going to refer back to the old adage of "The only thing constant in business is change." If this is true, which I have come to believe that it is, why should anything, done in the interest of share holders, be surprising to us?
I mean, C'mon people. Most of what has been going on in the tech industry is ridiculous. Geeks have been able to jump around from company to company in search of the highest buck and now companies view geeks as a commodity (which is our own doing) and we are the first to get canned. Big surprise. Also, Hairy's comment about being able to open up Front Page is no joke. About four months ago I ran into a girl I went to high school with. She is as dumb as rocks and our conversation sounded like it could have come right out of a Sally-Struthers-get-your-degree-at-home commercial. "Yeah, I was working a McDonalds there for a while but then I took a three month HTML class and now I'm making $15 an hour!@#!" Give me a break.
I guess that all I really have to say is that there are rules to business. Now, they may change quite a bit but there are still rules. Along with a set of rules I think you get two basic choices. You can play or you can get played.
I'm going to refer back to the old adage of "The only thing constant in business is change." If this is true, which I have come to believe that it is, why should anything, done in the interest of share holders, be surprising to us?
I mean, C'mon people. Most of what has been going on in the tech industry is ridiculous. Geeks have been able to jump around from company to company in search of the highest buck and now companies view geeks as a commodity (which is our own doing) and we are the first to get canned. Big surprise. Also, Hairy's comment about being able to open up Front Page is no joke. About four months ago I ran into a girl I went to high school with. She is as dumb as rocks and our conversation sounded like it could have come right out of a Sally-Struthers-get-your-degree-at-home commercial. "Yeah, I was working a McDonalds there for a while but then I took a three month HTML class and now I'm making $15 an hour!@#!" Give me a break.
I guess that all I really have to say is that there are rules to business. Now, they may change quite a bit but there are still rules. Along with a set of rules I think you get two basic choices. You can play or you can get played.
