10 laid off @ UNI

[col_tom]

Looks like the death knell is upon the majors.:eek: 10 peeps were let go yesterday and it has everyone walking on egg shells.

Now, if they'd quit trying to ship the same old "focus Grouped" product out, perhaps the returns wouldn't be so high and just maybe, jobs might be retained. But no...............

One of the biggest problems, is the lack of true sales people dealing with the retail sector. For the most part, they are all glorified order desk clerks who couldn't sell if their lives depended on it. Great in boom years, but during lean times? Not so much. You need pros to deal with typical rebuttals and general apathy. Not minions manning phones.:rolleyes:

More on this rant later... next week to be precise.

[Dyck Spreh]

Is anyone surprised by this?:confused:

[col_tom]

And as the executives lay off more of the trench workers to save their own sorry asses and salaries (if only for a short time), the heart and soul of the biz gets carved out to the point where it lacks a heartbeat.

Music is all about passion. Take that out and there's nothing left.

One can blame P2P till the cows come home but it won't get 'em back out to pasture again. They've seriously lost their way and the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, which is what they're trying to do.

[Dyck Spreh]

P2P doesn't account for bad music...:mad:

[RichardRavenhawke]

It is ironic. In most major corporations it is the screw-ups that get promoted because the company has no place for them. They have to keep moving them to find a place, and the people who are proficient at thier jobs never get moved due to high proficiency.
That is why executives need assistants because delegators (sp?) are not nescessarily always doers. SOmeone else has to do twice the work for half the pay.
By letting go of thier trench workers, they are letting go of thier front lines, which leaves nothijg but the screw-ups (with the odd exception I am sure) to make even more dumb-ass moves and thus run the company further into the ground because the elft hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Does anyone besides me find this situation eerily reminiscent of our own Canadian Government? To err is human... to majorly F*** UP is executive material :)