Comments on: HP to slash approximately 15,000 jobs

IT, sales and services are among areas to be hit hard, though the sweeping cuts will be felt throughout the company, a source says.

News media needs to catch on

A 5-10% layoff is business as usual for the annual firings associated with a company implementing mandatory ranking. This is not news. What is news is that mandatory ranking is a major problem in business ethics which leads to wrongful termination lawsuits age discrimination, and a host of stressful workplace situations. This is just a way to terminate low performers, those with high medical costs, anyone with pension liabilities, people with lots of stock options, and those that just speak their minds.

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Survival Of The Ruthless

What companies like HP are doing is breeding a species of worker that survives by being ruthless and selfish. What's the best way to keep your job at HP? Make sure your co-worker gets terminated instead. Need an income insurance policy? Stash away company secrets, customer lists, internal price lists, engineering roadmaps, etc. If you get canned, then sell the info to the highest bidder. Desperate times demand desperate measures. No, your enemy is not the competition, it is your present employer. You competitor is your friend, and future employer.

Hurd - Benchmarking Genius - Next Step

If Hurd is such a benchmarking genius why doesn't he compare his and Mott's compensation package against the competition, Lenovo, Averatec, Sony, Toshiba, etc. With the answer, the response from the Board should be obvious. We have been taken.