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Post #7,667
by Another Scott
9/4/01 4:58:13 PM
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New Chainsaw Al got his comeuppance...
[link|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980629/business.chainsaw_al_get15.html|Chainsaw Al Gets The Chop] at Time magazine.

Some companies, for a time, benefitted from slashing of payroll, etc. But too many managers and Wall Street types took such tactics as the only way to turn a firm around. It's good to see that Chainsaw Al was taken down before he had a chance to retire as a guru of business. It's a shame he took so many people with him...

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #7,674
by Ashton
9/4/01 5:52:40 PM
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New Not really.. never, in Murica
He never had to "work for that $1/ year" until his mischief was undone. The lost jobs and screwed up lives - in integrated suffering? - is never repaid under Repo-based capitalism. Of course though - his Ego suffered a severe slash; perhaps more deadly for such creatures than a burst appendix (?)

Even the author - an unreconstructed Slash n'Burn addict - only thinks ~ Al went just a bit too far, but.. the IDEA is Good.. etc. Just another undereducated MBA with a soap box.

Aside: last Sunday's paper compared some English gaffes committed by "a particular Harvard 'C' Student" and similar kinds from (papers written at) Community Colleges. Task - separate out Which was Which (source). Hard.. the CCs generally did better.

Spare us all from further 'profess-ionals'. Please.


A.
     NYT (and all over): HP buys Compaq for US$25b stock - (kmself) - (24) - Sept. 4, 2001, 12:37:04 AM EDT
         Had to get my nickel in on this one. - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - Sept. 4, 2001, 03:34:17 AM EDT
             Merger makes little sense - (bluke) - (8) - Sept. 4, 2001, 06:32:31 AM EDT
                 It makes sense for HP and Compaq management - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2001, 10:12:05 AM EDT
                     Anything that stands to get . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2001, 11:35:58 AM EDT
                         Yup look at HB Systems in Anchorage - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2001, 12:10:31 PM EDT
                 Its a stupidity attraction... - (addison) - Sept. 4, 2001, 10:27:26 AM EDT
                 Bloomberg agrees. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2001, 10:29:43 AM EDT
                     Anecdotal addendum.. - (Ashton) - Sept. 4, 2001, 04:12:01 PM EDT
                 Re: Didn't HP buy consulting arm of Price Waterhouse ? - (dmarker2) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2001, 08:10:19 PM EDT
                     Tried, failed. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 4, 2001, 08:12:46 PM EDT
             Along those lines - (GBert) - Sept. 4, 2001, 11:29:38 AM EDT
         Fiorina is not good leadership material - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Sept. 4, 2001, 08:16:09 AM EDT
             Damn Ben.. where do you *find* these links? - (Ashton) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2001, 03:41:50 PM EDT
                 Chainsaw Al got his comeuppance... - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2001, 04:58:13 PM EDT
                     Not really.. never, in Murica - (Ashton) - Sept. 4, 2001, 05:52:40 PM EDT
             Good article! -NT - (tonytib) - Sept. 4, 2001, 03:58:13 PM EDT
             But even big-mouths can be a "4" - (tablizer) - Sept. 4, 2001, 10:48:40 PM EDT
         Rousing raspberry from the stockmarket. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 4, 2001, 05:29:38 PM EDT
         Do I hear 20.3B? How about 19.7B? Now 18.9B? - (gdaustin) - Sept. 4, 2001, 09:15:45 PM EDT
         "Compackard"? -NT - (tablizer) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2001, 10:57:06 PM EDT
             No - Hewlett Packard - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Sept. 5, 2001, 01:05:50 AM EDT
                 Ah.. I see. Then, when Sony - (Ashton) - Sept. 5, 2001, 01:41:57 AM EDT
         Conspiracy theory time - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Sept. 5, 2001, 12:55:22 PM EDT
             BTW, MIPS isn't dead -- probably outsells P IV - (tonytib) - Sept. 6, 2001, 01:32:58 AM EDT

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