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What a story ... vialatimes
s the plane sped down a gully, engine ablaze, a father gripped his 1-year-old boy. Rescuers arrived bracing for the worst.
By DeeDee Correll
December 22, 2008
Reporting from Denver -- Gabriel Trejos isn't a nervous airplane passenger.
He enjoyed flying and had entertained thoughts of getting a pilot's license. So when he and his wife, Maria, settled into their seats in Row 19 on Continental Flight 1404, heading to Houston to spend Christmas with his father, he felt relaxed.
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He hoisted his 13-month-old son, Elijah, onto his lap to point out the lights on the runway. "It was a good day to fly," Trejos recalled.
Minutes later, the plane gathered speed for takeoff. Then it hurtled off the runway, racing over snow and grass and sliding down a gully. Maria, pregnant, gripped her seat. The seats buckled, and Trejos braced his knees against them, fearing they would crush his son.
"It was the worst feeling in the world," said Trejos, 28, one of 115 aboard the Boeing 737 on Saturday evening at Denver International Airport.
The flight, Trejos said, began normally, although he heard an announcement about engine trouble as he boarded. But it didn't seem to him that much time was spent on the problem.
As the aircraft slid downhill, Trejos saw flames in the engine outside his window. Finally the plane stopped. The air grew smoky. "Get out of the plane," passengers yelled.
The firefighters of Station 31 were just sitting down to dinner when the red overhead alarm connecting them to Denver International Airport's control tower began flashing.
That means a plane in trouble -- engine problems perhaps, or stuck flaps -- and it goes off frequently enough that no one was nervous. Usually they climb into their rigs and wait at the side of the runway.
Trouble is rare: The airport, which opened in 1995, had had no serious incidents. The last crash in Denver had been in 1987, when a Continental flight crashed in bad weather at the previous airport, Stapleton, killing 28.
But this time, at 6:18 p.m. Saturday, a voice from the tower announced a crash on Runway 34-R.
"Did he just say what I thought he said?" asked firefighter Jason Cole.
From the four city fire stations spread around the 53-square-mile airport, firefighters stopped what they were doing. At Station 31, Randall Kemp abandoned plans for dinner. At Concourse A, where Cole and Capt. Mike Benton had been awaiting a passenger arriving with a medical problem, the two took off running.
Firefighters converged on the west airfield, searching in the darkness for any sign of a plane and spotting smoke and flashes of fire in a gully beyond the runway. As they approached, the plane smoldered, and flames shot up 20 feet.
In the cabin, passengers rushed for the exits, although to Trejos' disbelief, several people first tried to retrieve their luggage. He and his wife were sitting between two exits. When people thronged toward the rear exit, Trejos and his wife headed to the one in front. Trejos, with Elijah in his arms, climbed onto the icy wing of the plane, now resting on its belly, and dropped a short distance to the ground. His wife followed.
As the firefighters arrived, they saw passengers hiking toward them, some weeping, others eerily calm. Most shivered in their shirt sleeves in the single-digit temperatures; they'd left their coats behind. Those who had jackets offered them to Trejos to keep Elijah warm.
Several had head injuries and one flight attendant had a sprained ankle, but most were able to walk on their own, said Capt. Tom Gliver. In all, 38 were injured.
"It was surreal," said Bill Davis, an assistant fire chief and incident commander. He said firefighters train daily for such situations, but none of them had experienced it, at least not at Denver International. They knew what to do: One group attacks the fire, another assists injured passengers and another climbs inside the plane to search for survivors.
Cole, 37, clambered up the slide, which was slick with foam that other firefighters sprayed on the plane, and braced himself.
"I was expecting the worst," he said.
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So was Benton, 55, who entered after Cole. "I took a little pause. I thought, 'This is going to be terrible.' "
It was black within. Cole, breathing through an oxygen tank, started down the aisle on his knees, groping with gloved hands for anything that felt human. Outside, firefighters aimed foam at the plane, and the spray blasted through the skin of the aircraft, dousing Cole in the face.
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Continental flight veers off Denver runway, injures dozens
An obstacle blocked the aisle, so he started climbing over the seats, running his hands over cushions, patting luggage. What he feared most, he said, was that a child was unconscious under a seat.
Benton followed holding a thermal imager, a device that looks like a camcorder and detects body heat. He pointed it down each row. Nothing.
"I was overjoyed," he said later. "Not a soul was on that plane."
By Sunday, the National Transportation Safety Board had begun an investigation. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation, reported that the plane's brakes malfunctioned, causing the fuselage to buckle and sparking a fire.
At the station, the firefighters remained on duty, halfway through a 48-hour shift. They returned to the plane periodically, making sure the fire had not reignited. Coated with frozen foam, the aircraft had burned completely through on the right side.
"You can see right into the cabin," Kemp said. "It could have been horrible," Davis said. "It was a miracle."
"A Christmas miracle," Benton said.
Back in their home in the southern Colorado city of Pueblo West, the Trejoses scrapped their plans to spend Christmas in Houston.
"We just looked at each other and said, 'That's it. No more flying,' " Trejos said. "That was pretty bad. Every time I close my eyes, I see it."
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What a story ... vialatimes s the plane sped down a gully, engine ablaze, a father gripped his 1-year-old boy. Rescuers arrived bracing for the worst. By DeeDee Correll December 22, 2008 Reporting from Denver -- Gabriel Trejos isn't a nervous airplane passenger. He enjoyed flying and had entertained thoughts of getting a pilot's license. So when he and his wife, Maria, settled into their seats in Row 19 on Continental Flight 1404, heading to Houston to spend Christmas with his father, he felt relaxed. * Continental flight veers off Denver runway, injures dozens He hoisted his 13-month-old son, Elijah, onto his lap to point out the lights on the runway. "It was a good day to fly," Trejos recalled. Minutes later, the plane gathered speed for takeoff. Then it hurtled off the runway, racing over snow and grass and sliding down a gully. Maria, pregnant, gripped her seat. The seats buckled, and Trejos braced his knees against them, fearing they would crush his son. "It was the worst feeling in the world," said Trejos, 28, one of 115 aboard the Boeing 737 on Saturday evening at Denver International Airport. The flight, Trejos said, began normally, although he heard an announcement about engine trouble as he boarded. But it didn't seem to him that much time was spent on the problem. As the aircraft slid downhill, Trejos saw flames in the engine outside his window. Finally the plane stopped. The air grew smoky. "Get out of the plane," passengers yelled. The firefighters of Station 31 were just sitting down to dinner when the red overhead alarm connecting them to Denver International Airport's control tower began flashing. That means a plane in trouble -- engine problems perhaps, or stuck flaps -- and it goes off frequently enough that no one was nervous. Usually they climb into their rigs and wait at the side of the runway. Trouble is rare: The airport, which opened in 1995, had had no serious incidents. The last crash in Denver had been in 1987, when a Continental flight crashed in bad weather at the previous airport, Stapleton, killing 28. But this time, at 6:18 p.m. Saturday, a voice from the tower announced a crash on Runway 34-R. "Did he just say what I thought he said?" asked firefighter Jason Cole. From the four city fire stations spread around the 53-square-mile airport, firefighters stopped what they were doing. At Station 31, Randall Kemp abandoned plans for dinner. At Concourse A, where Cole and Capt. Mike Benton had been awaiting a passenger arriving with a medical problem, the two took off running. Firefighters converged on the west airfield, searching in the darkness for any sign of a plane and spotting smoke and flashes of fire in a gully beyond the runway. As they approached, the plane smoldered, and flames shot up 20 feet. In the cabin, passengers rushed for the exits, although to Trejos' disbelief, several people first tried to retrieve their luggage. He and his wife were sitting between two exits. When people thronged toward the rear exit, Trejos and his wife headed to the one in front. Trejos, with Elijah in his arms, climbed onto the icy wing of the plane, now resting on its belly, and dropped a short distance to the ground. His wife followed. As the firefighters arrived, they saw passengers hiking toward them, some weeping, others eerily calm. Most shivered in their shirt sleeves in the single-digit temperatures; they'd left their coats behind. Those who had jackets offered them to Trejos to keep Elijah warm. Several had head injuries and one flight attendant had a sprained ankle, but most were able to walk on their own, said Capt. Tom Gliver. In all, 38 were injured. "It was surreal," said Bill Davis, an assistant fire chief and incident commander. He said firefighters train daily for such situations, but none of them had experienced it, at least not at Denver International. They knew what to do: One group attacks the fire, another assists injured passengers and another climbs inside the plane to search for survivors. Cole, 37, clambered up the slide, which was slick with foam that other firefighters sprayed on the plane, and braced himself. "I was expecting the worst," he said.
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So was Benton, 55, who entered after Cole. "I took a little pause. I thought, 'This is going to be terrible.' " It was black within. Cole, breathing through an oxygen tank, started down the aisle on his knees, groping with gloved hands for anything that felt human. Outside, firefighters aimed foam at the plane, and the spray blasted through the skin of the aircraft, dousing Cole in the face. * Continental flight veers off Denver runway, injures dozens An obstacle blocked the aisle, so he started climbing over the seats, running his hands over cushions, patting luggage. What he feared most, he said, was that a child was unconscious under a seat. Benton followed holding a thermal imager, a device that looks like a camcorder and detects body heat. He pointed it down each row. Nothing. "I was overjoyed," he said later. "Not a soul was on that plane." By Sunday, the National Transportation Safety Board had begun an investigation. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation, reported that the plane's brakes malfunctioned, causing the fuselage to buckle and sparking a fire. At the station, the firefighters remained on duty, halfway through a 48-hour shift. They returned to the plane periodically, making sure the fire had not reignited. Coated with frozen foam, the aircraft had burned completely through on the right side. "You can see right into the cabin," Kemp said. "It could have been horrible," Davis said. "It was a miracle." "A Christmas miracle," Benton said. Back in their home in the southern Colorado city of Pueblo West, the Trejoses scrapped their plans to spend Christmas in Houston. "We just looked at each other and said, 'That's it. No more flying,' " Trejos said. "That was pretty bad. Every time I close my eyes, I see it."
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What a story ... vialatimes s the plane sped down a gully, engine ablaze, a father gripped his 1-year-old boy. Rescuers arrived bracing for the worst. By DeeDee Correll December 22, 2008 Reporting from Denver -- Gabriel Trejos isn't a nervous airplane passenger. He enjoyed flying and had entertained thoughts of getting a pilot's license. So when he and his wife, Maria, settled into their seats in Row 19 on Continental Flight 1404, heading to Houston to spend Christmas with his father, he felt relaxed. * Continental flight veers off Denver runway, injures dozens He hoisted his 13-month-old son, Elijah, onto his lap to point out the lights on the runway. "It was a good day to fly," Trejos recalled. Minutes later, the plane gathered speed for takeoff. Then it hurtled off the runway, racing over snow and grass and sliding down a gully. Maria, pregnant, gripped her seat. The seats buckled, and Trejos braced his knees against them, fearing they would crush his son. "It was the worst feeling in the world," said Trejos, 28, one of 115 aboard the Boeing 737 on Saturday evening at Denver International Airport. The flight, Trejos said, began normally, although he heard an announcement about engine trouble as he boarded. But it didn't seem to him that much time was spent on the problem. As the aircraft slid downhill, Trejos saw flames in the engine outside his window. Finally the plane stopped. The air grew smoky. "Get out of the plane," passengers yelled. The firefighters of Station 31 were just sitting down to dinner when the red overhead alarm connecting them to Denver International Airport's control tower began flashing. That means a plane in trouble -- engine problems perhaps, or stuck flaps -- and it goes off frequently enough that no one was nervous. Usually they climb into their rigs and wait at the side of the runway. Trouble is rare: The airport, which opened in 1995, had had no serious incidents. The last crash in Denver had been in 1987, when a Continental flight crashed in bad weather at the previous airport, Stapleton, killing 28. But this time, at 6:18 p.m. Saturday, a voice from the tower announced a crash on Runway 34-R. "Did he just say what I thought he said?" asked firefighter Jason Cole. From the four city fire stations spread around the 53-square-mile airport, firefighters stopped what they were doing. At Station 31, Randall Kemp abandoned plans for dinner. At Concourse A, where Cole and Capt. Mike Benton had been awaiting a passenger arriving with a medical problem, the two took off running. Firefighters converged on the west airfield, searching in the darkness for any sign of a plane and spotting smoke and flashes of fire in a gully beyond the runway. As they approached, the plane smoldered, and flames shot up 20 feet. In the cabin, passengers rushed for the exits, although to Trejos' disbelief, several people first tried to retrieve their luggage. He and his wife were sitting between two exits. When people thronged toward the rear exit, Trejos and his wife headed to the one in front. Trejos, with Elijah in his arms, climbed onto the icy wing of the plane, now resting on its belly, and dropped a short distance to the ground. His wife followed. As the firefighters arrived, they saw passengers hiking toward them, some weeping, others eerily calm. Most shivered in their shirt sleeves in the single-digit temperatures; they'd left their coats behind. Those who had jackets offered them to Trejos to keep Elijah warm. Several had head injuries and one flight attendant had a sprained ankle, but most were able to walk on their own, said Capt. Tom Gliver. In all, 38 were injured. "It was surreal," said Bill Davis, an assistant fire chief and incident commander. He said firefighters train daily for such situations, but none of them had experienced it, at least not at Denver International. They knew what to do: One group attacks the fire, another assists injured passengers and another climbs inside the plane to search for survivors. Cole, 37, clambered up the slide, which was slick with foam that other firefighters sprayed on the plane, and braced himself. "I was expecting the worst," he said.
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NewsDateTime: 12/18/2008
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... Joe Pisarcik , Larry Csonka and Herman Edwards were involved, and the term "Miracle at ... two weeks, and you have to think the Lions have a decent shot to end their nightmare ... And while we're at it, Denver is the other likely western champion that doesn't ...
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So was Benton, 55, who entered after Cole. "I took a little pause. I thought, 'This is going to be terrible.' " It was black within. Cole, breathing through an oxygen tank, started down the aisle on his knees, groping with gloved hands for anything that felt human. Outside, firefighters aimed foam at the plane, and the spray blasted through the skin of the aircraft, dousing Cole in the face. * Continental flight veers off Denver runway, injures dozens An obstacle blocked the aisle, so he started climbing over the seats, running his hands over cushions, patting luggage. What he feared most, he said, was that a child was unconscious under a seat. Benton followed holding a thermal imager, a device that looks like a camcorder and detects body heat. He pointed it down each row. Nothing. "I was overjoyed," he said later. "Not a soul was on that plane." By Sunday, the National Transportation Safety Board had begun an investigation. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation, reported that the plane's brakes malfunctioned, causing the fuselage to buckle and sparking a fire. At the station, the firefighters remained on duty, halfway through a 48-hour shift. They returned to the plane periodically, making sure the fire had not reignited. Coated with frozen foam, the aircraft had burned completely through on the right side. "You can see right into the cabin," Kemp said. "It could have been horrible," Davis said. "It was a miracle." "A Christmas miracle," Benton said. Back in their home in the southern Colorado city of Pueblo West, the Trejoses scrapped their plans to spend Christmas in Houston. "We just looked at each other and said, 'That's it. No more flying,' " Trejos said. "That was pretty bad. Every time I close my eyes, I see it."
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Amidst a recession Silicon Valley shut-down for Christmas ... See full story by By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: December 21 2008 19:02 | Last updated: December 21 2008 19:02 Workers at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies will find themselves spending an uncommonly long time with their families this Christmas as the technology industry responds to the downturn with office and factory closures and enforced holidays. Usually limited to traditional manufacturing industries such as the ailing carmakers, the year-end shut-down is this year sweeping through the office suites and research and development labs of information-age companies. EDITOR’S CHOICE Apple has winning touch in festive sales - Dec-21 Equipment makers edge towards the end of the line - Dec-21 Video: Tales from Christmas markets - Dec-21 Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments, Dell, Adobe and CSC are among the tech industry heavyweights to be taking a break, with some closed from December 22 until January 5. HP said: “The only workers left to keep the lights on will be those involved in “critical customer support”. The shut-down has been forced by belt-tightening across the sector as corporate and individual customers cut back on spending. The wider cost-cutting has hit even Google, the latest emblem of Silicon Valley prosperity. The internet seach engine has trimmed spending on its famed perks with steps such as cutting the number of restaurants on its campus open in the evening. In spite of the enforced leisure, workers will be hit directly by the closures, with most required to use up part of their holiday entitlement or, if they do not have the days to spare, take unpaid leave. Given that many US workers receive only 10 days of vacation a year, the effect will be biggest there, although most of the companies to close say they will be halting operations worldwide. HP said six days of its two-week shutdown would count against workers’ annual vacation entitlement, while technology services company CSC said employees would be docked seven days’ holiday. One Valley executive said: “Man, is it ugly out there”. He said the pain had spread from the wider economy in recent weeks. “It was nice to see record earnings for high-tech companies in the first three quarters during a so-called recession, and then the wheels fell off in October.” Chip companies and other component makers have taken the brunt of the initial downturn in tech demand, as makers of hardware such as computers and routers have reduced orders in anticipation of deeper problems next year. The iSuppli research company warned last week that excess semiconductor stockpiles in the global electronics supply chain were likely to nearly triple in the fourth quarter. Advanced Micro Devices, the microprocessor maker based in Silicon Valley, said its workforce had been told to take five days’ mandatory vacation in the fourth quarter. Elsewhere, Texas Instruments is temporarily closing many of its factories to run down its inventories. With its manufacturing operation running at only about 45 per cent of capacity, the Dallas-based company says such levels had not been seen since the second half of 2001. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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Amidst a recession Silicon Valley shut-down for Christmas ... See full story by By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: December 21 2008 19:02 | Last updated: December 21 2008 19:02 Workers at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies will find themselves spending an uncommonly long time with their families this Christmas as the technology industry responds to the downturn with office and factory closures and enforced holidays. Usually limited to traditional manufacturing industries such as the ailing carmakers, the year-end shut-down is this year sweeping through the office suites and research and development labs of information-age companies. EDITOR’S CHOICE Apple has winning touch in festive sales - Dec-21 Equipment makers edge towards the end of the line - Dec-21 Video: Tales from Christmas markets - Dec-21 Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments, Dell, Adobe and CSC are among the tech industry heavyweights to be taking a break, with some closed from December 22 until January 5. HP said: “The only workers left to keep the lights on will be those involved in “critical customer support”. The shut-down has been forced by belt-tightening across the sector as corporate and individual customers cut back on spending. The wider cost-cutting has hit even Google, the latest emblem of Silicon Valley prosperity. The internet seach engine has trimmed spending on its famed perks with steps such as cutting the number of restaurants on its campus open in the evening. In spite of the enforced leisure, workers will be hit directly by the closures, with most required to use up part of their holiday entitlement or, if they do not have the days to spare, take unpaid leave. Given that many US workers receive only 10 days of vacation a year, the effect will be biggest there, although most of the companies to close say they will be halting operations worldwide. HP said six days of its two-week shutdown would count against workers’ annual vacation entitlement, while technology services company CSC said employees would be docked seven days’ holiday. One Valley executive said: “Man, is it ugly out there”. He said the pain had spread from the wider economy in recent weeks. “It was nice to see record earnings for high-tech companies in the first three quarters during a so-called recession, and then the wheels fell off in October.” Chip companies and other component makers have taken the brunt of the initial downturn in tech demand, as makers of hardware such as computers and routers have reduced orders in anticipation of deeper problems next year. The iSuppli research company warned last week that excess semiconductor stockpiles in the global electronics supply chain were likely to nearly triple in the fourth quarter. Advanced Micro Devices, the microprocessor maker based in Silicon Valley, said its workforce had been told to take five days’ mandatory vacation in the fourth quarter. Elsewhere, Texas Instruments is temporarily closing many of its factories to run down its inventories. With its manufacturing operation running at only about 45 per cent of capacity, the Dallas-based company says such levels had not been seen since the second half of 2001. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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Amidst a recession Silicon Valley shut-down for Christmas ... See full story by By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: December 21 2008 19:02 | Last updated: December 21 2008 19:02 Workers at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies will find themselves spending an uncommonly long time with their families this Christmas as the technology industry responds to the downturn with office and factory closures and enforced holidays. Usually limited to traditional manufacturing industries such as the ailing carmakers, the year-end shut-down is this year sweeping through the office suites and research and development labs of information-age companies. EDITOR’S CHOICE Apple has winning touch in festive sales - Dec-21 Equipment makers edge towards the end of the line - Dec-21 Video: Tales from Christmas markets - Dec-21 Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments, Dell, Adobe and CSC are among the tech industry heavyweights to be taking a break, with some closed from December 22 until January 5. HP said: “The only workers left to keep the lights on will be those involved in “critical customer support”. The shut-down has been forced by belt-tightening across the sector as corporate and individual customers cut back on spending. The wider cost-cutting has hit even Google, the latest emblem of Silicon Valley prosperity. The internet seach engine has trimmed spending on its famed perks with steps such as cutting the number of restaurants on its campus open in the evening. In spite of the enforced leisure, workers will be hit directly by the closures, with most required to use up part of their holiday entitlement or, if they do not have the days to spare, take unpaid leave. Given that many US workers receive only 10 days of vacation a year, the effect will be biggest there, although most of the companies to close say they will be halting operations worldwide. HP said six days of its two-week shutdown would count against workers’ annual vacation entitlement, while technology services company CSC said employees would be docked seven days’ holiday. One Valley executive said: “Man, is it ugly out there”. He said the pain had spread from the wider economy in recent weeks. “It was nice to see record earnings for high-tech companies in the first three quarters during a so-called recession, and then the wheels fell off in October.” Chip companies and other component makers have taken the brunt of the initial downturn in tech demand, as makers of hardware such as computers and routers have reduced orders in anticipation of deeper problems next year. The iSuppli research company warned last week that excess semiconductor stockpiles in the global electronics supply chain were likely to nearly triple in the fourth quarter. Advanced Micro Devices, the microprocessor maker based in Silicon Valley, said its workforce had been told to take five days’ mandatory vacation in the fourth quarter. Elsewhere, Texas Instruments is temporarily closing many of its factories to run down its inventories. With its manufacturing operation running at only about 45 per cent of capacity, the Dallas-based company says such levels had not been seen since the second half of 2001. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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Source: Financial Times
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This year, holiday slowdown is a bit too close to 'shutdown'
... people who are stuck at work during the molasses-slow week between Christmas and ... In Silicon Valley, where business is usually slow this time of year, the practice of ... Systems, which sells networking technology, recently announced it would shut down ...
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NewsDateTime: 12/13/2008
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... group has found more ways to bond since the news of their store getting shut down ... within different (consumer electronics) segments through the Christmas holidays ... that has saddened friends, colleagues, and family members, and left Silicon Valley ...
more ...
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Source: CNET News
NewsDateTime: 12/16/2008
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... of customers receive the products that they have ordered on time this Christmas ... teen girl social-networking site, which launched in February 2007, will shut down ... hired Yahoo search executive Sean Suchter to be general manager of its Silicon Valley ...
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Source: CNET News
NewsDateTime: 12/14/2008
Empty Lots: Car Dealers Continue to Suffer
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Source: Wall Street Journal
NewsDateTime: 12/14/2008
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Amidst a recession Silicon Valley shut-down for Christmas ... See full story by By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: December 21 2008 19:02 | Last updated: December 21 2008 19:02 Workers at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies will find themselves spending an uncommonly long time with their families this Christmas as the technology industry responds to the downturn with office and factory closures and enforced holidays. Usually limited to traditional manufacturing industries such as the ailing carmakers, the year-end shut-down is this year sweeping through the office suites and research and development labs of information-age companies. EDITOR’S CHOICE Apple has winning touch in festive sales - Dec-21 Equipment makers edge towards the end of the line - Dec-21 Video: Tales from Christmas markets - Dec-21 Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments, Dell, Adobe and CSC are among the tech industry heavyweights to be taking a break, with some closed from December 22 until January 5. HP said: “The only workers left to keep the lights on will be those involved in “critical customer support”. The shut-down has been forced by belt-tightening across the sector as corporate and individual customers cut back on spending. The wider cost-cutting has hit even Google, the latest emblem of Silicon Valley prosperity. The internet seach engine has trimmed spending on its famed perks with steps such as cutting the number of restaurants on its campus open in the evening. In spite of the enforced leisure, workers will be hit directly by the closures, with most required to use up part of their holiday entitlement or, if they do not have the days to spare, take unpaid leave. Given that many US workers receive only 10 days of vacation a year, the effect will be biggest there, although most of the companies to close say they will be halting operations worldwide. HP said six days of its two-week shutdown would count against workers’ annual vacation entitlement, while technology services company CSC said employees would be docked seven days’ holiday. One Valley executive said: “Man, is it ugly out there”. He said the pain had spread from the wider economy in recent weeks. “It was nice to see record earnings for high-tech companies in the first three quarters during a so-called recession, and then the wheels fell off in October.” Chip companies and other component makers have taken the brunt of the initial downturn in tech demand, as makers of hardware such as computers and routers have reduced orders in anticipation of deeper problems next year. The iSuppli research company warned last week that excess semiconductor stockpiles in the global electronics supply chain were likely to nearly triple in the fourth quarter. Advanced Micro Devices, the microprocessor maker based in Silicon Valley, said its workforce had been told to take five days’ mandatory vacation in the fourth quarter. Elsewhere, Texas Instruments is temporarily closing many of its factories to run down its inventories. With its manufacturing operation running at only about 45 per cent of capacity, the Dallas-based company says such levels had not been seen since the second half of 2001. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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Source: Financial Times
NewsDateTime: 11 hours ago
This year, holiday slowdown is a bit too close to 'shutdown'
... people who are stuck at work during the molasses-slow week between Christmas and ... In Silicon Valley, where business is usually slow this time of year, the practice of ... Systems, which sells networking technology, recently announced it would shut down ...
more ...
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Source: Herald Tribune
NewsDateTime: 12/13/2008
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... group has found more ways to bond since the news of their store getting shut down ... within different (consumer electronics) segments through the Christmas holidays ... that has saddened friends, colleagues, and family members, and left Silicon Valley ...
more ...
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Source: CNET News
NewsDateTime: 12/16/2008
Digital Media
... of customers receive the products that they have ordered on time this Christmas ... teen girl social-networking site, which launched in February 2007, will shut down ... hired Yahoo search executive Sean Suchter to be general manager of its Silicon Valley ...
more ...
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Source: CNET News
NewsDateTime: 12/14/2008
Empty Lots: Car Dealers Continue to Suffer
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more ...
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Source: Wall Street Journal
NewsDateTime: 12/14/2008
Chip companies and other component makers have taken the brunt of the initial downturn in tech demand, as makers of hardware such as computers and routers have reduced orders in anticipation of deeper problems next year.
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Title: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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Title: How To Get A Guy In Silicon Valley
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Published on: 1/8/2007 1:48:25 AM
Title: Piratas de Silicon Valley
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Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs Rumors. Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors. That's all I have for you. Rumors and second-hand speculation and the comments left by the fine, good-looking folks who participate in the conversation here. So pour yourself some holiday cheer and dive in. What have those fine folks been sharing over the past couple of posts here? Bad news on the rise and with perhaps January 15th 2009 as an interesting day for Microsoft news. Bad news. 15 Jan is a week before FY09Q2 quarterly results and it's better to share as much news, good and bad, before the results are released vs. surprising Wall Street (something I think we've learned). It all starts with... Just heard on the finance grapevine. MSFT layoffs are coming on January 15th. They are substantial. And then some curious meetings: they lost 12 people in STB [...] looks like "feedback" reviews are underway to get the a-10's out of the picture as well. What kind of meeting? Perhaps like: I got invited into one of those special "manager" meetings on thursday which resolved to absolutely zero activity other than asking opaque questions for which the answer was already known. "fact" finding in order to dismiss an argument OR dismiss me :) shall find out 1/15 In Live Meeting: Live Meeting is one of the worst places to be right now - and it has gotten downright hostile and strange in recent times. People are pulled into meetings with management where they get interrogated about what they are working on ("We want to hear what you think you know about XYZ, this is not a knowledge-sharing session..."), people are given impossible tasks like coding things not yet designed, automating things not get coded, documenting unfinished ideas (all subject to being cut next week too). On top of that they must account for their time by the hour. Live Meeting is in its death throes. Breaking-up when you have no budget is another tactic (in STB): Our 120+ person org has just been broken up due to lack of budget. About 1/2 the team is staying, the other half is going to a number of different teams within the larger org. So far, we all appear to have jobs, but man, what a shocker, I thought ours was one of the more stable teams. Not sure what happens to our Director, he seemed a bit shocked himself when he delivered the news today. I also don't know if this is the first step towards a lay-off, but for now, it seems we'll have jobs for a few more months. Ugh, not good, not good at all. STB again: I got pulled into a lunch 2:1 today and got given good news on "you have 4 weeks left" STB - > Server Rumors! Like the following that I've heard wandering around chatting with folks before the holidays: I've been hearing some stealth layoffs around the SQL and BOSG groups, around 70+ people were given 6(?) weeks to find another position within the company, otherwise they are laid off. Anyone know others? Is the following a list of head-count cuts or expected percent cuts? * 3 in omps * 9 in stb * 12 in msd * 7 in devdiv * 18 in UA * 5 in MSX Beyond product groups: Finance is cutting 10% of work force. I will agree that we'll be casting a hard eye at consistent 10%-ers during MYCD: If you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OEIf you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OE But who is taking the cut? The news is in. All the money making groups cut 10% of the work force. The money losing groups hires. Vendors get it, too: Vendors are also having it bad. The funding for our project stopped and our vendor team of 28 people have been asked to leave immediately. All of us have been asked to move to India by our parent company. [...] Who should be taking a cut? One commenter points to GFS: Do you know who was killing Microsoft economically from past several years- think think think? Being one of the 65 level in this organization and spending most of my career here - I can tell you that this group was living lavish life from past many years (thank god – we have some economic crisis now and people are asking some tough questions from the managers here). I know many of you have already guessed and you are right - this group is called "GFS - Global Foundation Service" and DebraC is leading this group. (Did I use the word leading?) If you want to know how capable she is to lead this group, I encourage you to watch her latest all hands streaming that you can find on MSW. [...] There are billions of dollars hardware purchased every year across this group without any planning and I can assure you that 50% of them are not even used or required at first place. Most of the hiring in this group is not for getting things done or being innovative in datacenter world but each manager here trying to build their own empire by just hiring whether they really need it or not. Local impact? One commenter muses: As someone whose product was recently whacked, I sure hope there are some RIFs before there are out-and-out layouts (at least in my area!) Scary... 'cause in this climate, it's going to be darn tough on the economy to dump a bunch of talented folks to the curb and have them competing for slim pickings out in the rest of the world. The ripple effect on the Puget Sound economy alone (assuming the layoffs are substantially here) would be staggering. :-( Okay. So first I'd love to hear what you have heard or know as well, though I realize some of you might want to stir the pot with made-up fluff sprinkled with schaedenfruede - please don't. Second: you have to realize that the upcoming 2009 Mid Year Career Discussion review process is one of the most important career inflection-points for you that we've had in a long, long time. Already my team is being asked to review people on the HR Watch List deeply and especially look at any two-time-plus 10%'s, no matter whether they are Situation I (eh, should be fired) or Situation II (effective but have reached their career maximum - again, a horrible, horrible concept). The upcoming Stack Rank for Mid-Year is going to be super-important for determining who has to go first if your team is given an n-percent budget to cut-back on. And yes, if we fire the current 10%'ers we drop down the lower 70%'ers into the 10% bucket. So just because you don't end up in the 10% bucket don't get all happy about yourself unless you're well into a high Achieved / high 70% bucket. My suggestion to you: know when your team's Stack Rank (aka Calibration) meeting is and be very aggressive about enumerating your accomplishments this past year with your manager and asking your boss where they believe you rank within the team. Hey, I hate this system too, folks, and by me giving you advice I'm trying to prescribe some preventative medicine, not endorse the lifeboat drill that is Stack Ranking. And if you have Skip Level meetings with your upper management, you'd better figure a way that you walk out of that room with them loving you. And if you get your six weeks, you're going to have to depend on your existing Microsoft networks. Folks I know with open positions have really ratcheted up their choosiness about who they want to bring into their group and are exceptionally uninterested in unknown RIF'ed people wanting informationals, assuming that they are 10%-ers. Third: let's say we are having intensive cutbacks and/or RIFs and layoffs. It is absolutely essential that Microsoft steps back and asks, "Whoa, how did we get here and who was leading us?" How did we go on a drunken hiring binge and continue it even though a year ago most of us realized we were dropping into a recession? It's irresponsible leadership. It's especially irresponsible to the people we've hired and to the people incoming with recent offers. If you don't think too deeply, it's easy to be sipping on your Starbucks in Crossroads Mall typing away at how Microsoft needs to mass fire people so that it can refocus on essential business. But when you do it at a time when the economy is in the crapper and job openings at Microsoft is near nil is unforgivable. An important consequence is to ensure we never do this again. The first step is to cut out the people who got us here, especially by making weak hires. Everytime someone who you said "Hire" to on an interview loop gets a 10% review your ranking on hiring goes down. If they become good attrition you get dropped from interviewing. You obviously aren't a very good judge when it comes to hiring for Microsoft. Likewise, if you said "No" to someone with a bad review or "Yes" to a star performer, your ranking goes up. And all of this is made very clear to you, versus you wondering one day, "Hey, how come I haven't been on an interview loop in a while?" Next, if you've been in the way of quickly load balancing within your division according to needs vs. empire building: *poof* you're either gone or demoted. Come 22 Jan 2009 Microsoft will be asked by the analysts what it is doing to contain costs. And I believe Microsoft will have an answer. I think this is one solution that you don't want to be a part of. I'm all for cutting back, but it should have been done long ago, responsibly, vs. forced upon us. Because I believe when things turn around, groups will be lighting the sparklers and cracking open the Kristal and hiring madly again. Mini-Microsoft Microsoft Posted by Who da'Punk at Sunday, December 21, 2008
Microsoft Notebook: Company stands by cuts in benefits
More than criticizing the announced changes, however, some employees worry that the cutbacks are a sign of things to come -- as Microsoft tries to reduce expenses in a broader ...
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E.g., "...the economy made us do these big cut-backs vs ... No reason to worry anymore! And three of my favorite ... She will not be a Microsoft employee by the time this fiscal year ...
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Online Extra: Microsoft's Mini-Me Susses Brummel
... back then, and that time he criticized Microsoft's employee ... human resources director] Ken DiPietro's cutbacks of the employee ... just announce "I'm interviewing!" and not worry ...
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Microsoft's JobsBlog : If you ever doubted – yep we are still hiring ...
... though, I haven’t seen Microsoft slow ... What is it about the cut-backs? You mean the cutbacks Steve Ballmer mentioned in the memo to employees? But why must Gretchen worry about it
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Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs Rumors. Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors. That's all I have for you. Rumors and second-hand speculation and the comments left by the fine, good-looking folks who participate in the conversation here. So pour yourself some holiday cheer and dive in. What have those fine folks been sharing over the past couple of posts here? Bad news on the rise and with perhaps January 15th 2009 as an interesting day for Microsoft news. Bad news. 15 Jan is a week before FY09Q2 quarterly results and it's better to share as much news, good and bad, before the results are released vs. surprising Wall Street (something I think we've learned). It all starts with... Just heard on the finance grapevine. MSFT layoffs are coming on January 15th. They are substantial. And then some curious meetings: they lost 12 people in STB [...] looks like "feedback" reviews are underway to get the a-10's out of the picture as well. What kind of meeting? Perhaps like: I got invited into one of those special "manager" meetings on thursday which resolved to absolutely zero activity other than asking opaque questions for which the answer was already known. "fact" finding in order to dismiss an argument OR dismiss me :) shall find out 1/15 In Live Meeting: Live Meeting is one of the worst places to be right now - and it has gotten downright hostile and strange in recent times. People are pulled into meetings with management where they get interrogated about what they are working on ("We want to hear what you think you know about XYZ, this is not a knowledge-sharing session..."), people are given impossible tasks like coding things not yet designed, automating things not get coded, documenting unfinished ideas (all subject to being cut next week too). On top of that they must account for their time by the hour. Live Meeting is in its death throes. Breaking-up when you have no budget is another tactic (in STB): Our 120+ person org has just been broken up due to lack of budget. About 1/2 the team is staying, the other half is going to a number of different teams within the larger org. So far, we all appear to have jobs, but man, what a shocker, I thought ours was one of the more stable teams. Not sure what happens to our Director, he seemed a bit shocked himself when he delivered the news today. I also don't know if this is the first step towards a lay-off, but for now, it seems we'll have jobs for a few more months. Ugh, not good, not good at all. STB again: I got pulled into a lunch 2:1 today and got given good news on "you have 4 weeks left" STB - > Server Rumors! Like the following that I've heard wandering around chatting with folks before the holidays: I've been hearing some stealth layoffs around the SQL and BOSG groups, around 70+ people were given 6(?) weeks to find another position within the company, otherwise they are laid off. Anyone know others? Is the following a list of head-count cuts or expected percent cuts? * 3 in omps * 9 in stb * 12 in msd * 7 in devdiv * 18 in UA * 5 in MSX Beyond product groups: Finance is cutting 10% of work force. I will agree that we'll be casting a hard eye at consistent 10%-ers during MYCD: If you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OEIf you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OE But who is taking the cut? The news is in. All the money making groups cut 10% of the work force. The money losing groups hires. Vendors get it, too: Vendors are also having it bad. The funding for our project stopped and our vendor team of 28 people have been asked to leave immediately. All of us have been asked to move to India by our parent company. [...] Who should be taking a cut? One commenter points to GFS: Do you know who was killing Microsoft economically from past several years- think think think? Being one of the 65 level in this organization and spending most of my career here - I can tell you that this group was living lavish life from past many years (thank god – we have some economic crisis now and people are asking some tough questions from the managers here). I know many of you have already guessed and you are right - this group is called "GFS - Global Foundation Service" and DebraC is leading this group. (Did I use the word leading?) If you want to know how capable she is to lead this group, I encourage you to watch her latest all hands streaming that you can find on MSW. [...] There are billions of dollars hardware purchased every year across this group without any planning and I can assure you that 50% of them are not even used or required at first place. Most of the hiring in this group is not for getting things done or being innovative in datacenter world but each manager here trying to build their own empire by just hiring whether they really need it or not. Local impact? One commenter muses: As someone whose product was recently whacked, I sure hope there are some RIFs before there are out-and-out layouts (at least in my area!) Scary... 'cause in this climate, it's going to be darn tough on the economy to dump a bunch of talented folks to the curb and have them competing for slim pickings out in the rest of the world. The ripple effect on the Puget Sound economy alone (assuming the layoffs are substantially here) would be staggering. :-( Okay. So first I'd love to hear what you have heard or know as well, though I realize some of you might want to stir the pot with made-up fluff sprinkled with schaedenfruede - please don't. Second: you have to realize that the upcoming 2009 Mid Year Career Discussion review process is one of the most important career inflection-points for you that we've had in a long, long time. Already my team is being asked to review people on the HR Watch List deeply and especially look at any two-time-plus 10%'s, no matter whether they are Situation I (eh, should be fired) or Situation II (effective but have reached their career maximum - again, a horrible, horrible concept). The upcoming Stack Rank for Mid-Year is going to be super-important for determining who has to go first if your team is given an n-percent budget to cut-back on. And yes, if we fire the current 10%'ers we drop down the lower 70%'ers into the 10% bucket. So just because you don't end up in the 10% bucket don't get all happy about yourself unless you're well into a high Achieved / high 70% bucket. My suggestion to you: know when your team's Stack Rank (aka Calibration) meeting is and be very aggressive about enumerating your accomplishments this past year with your manager and asking your boss where they believe you rank within the team. Hey, I hate this system too, folks, and by me giving you advice I'm trying to prescribe some preventative medicine, not endorse the lifeboat drill that is Stack Ranking. And if you have Skip Level meetings with your upper management, you'd better figure a way that you walk out of that room with them loving you. And if you get your six weeks, you're going to have to depend on your existing Microsoft networks. Folks I know with open positions have really ratcheted up their choosiness about who they want to bring into their group and are exceptionally uninterested in unknown RIF'ed people wanting informationals, assuming that they are 10%-ers. Third: let's say we are having intensive cutbacks and/or RIFs and layoffs. It is absolutely essential that Microsoft steps back and asks, "Whoa, how did we get here and who was leading us?" How did we go on a drunken hiring binge and continue it even though a year ago most of us realized we were dropping into a recession? It's irresponsible leadership. It's especially irresponsible to the people we've hired and to the people incoming with recent offers. If you don't think too deeply, it's easy to be sipping on your Starbucks in Crossroads Mall typing away at how Microsoft needs to mass fire people so that it can refocus on essential business. But when you do it at a time when the economy is in the crapper and job openings at Microsoft is near nil is unforgivable. An important consequence is to ensure we never do this again. The first step is to cut out the people who got us here, especially by making weak hires. Everytime someone who you said "Hire" to on an interview loop gets a 10% review your ranking on hiring goes down. If they become good attrition you get dropped from interviewing. You obviously aren't a very good judge when it comes to hiring for Microsoft. Likewise, if you said "No" to someone with a bad review or "Yes" to a star performer, your ranking goes up. And all of this is made very clear to you, versus you wondering one day, "Hey, how come I haven't been on an interview loop in a while?" Next, if you've been in the way of quickly load balancing within your division according to needs vs. empire building: *poof* you're either gone or demoted. Come 22 Jan 2009 Microsoft will be asked by the analysts what it is doing to contain costs. And I believe Microsoft will have an answer. I think this is one solution that you don't want to be a part of. I'm all for cutting back, but it should have been done long ago, responsibly, vs. forced upon us. Because I believe when things turn around, groups will be lighting the sparklers and cracking open the Kristal and hiring madly again. Mini-Microsoft Microsoft Posted by Who da'Punk at Sunday, December 21, 2008
Microsoft Notebook: Company stands by cuts in benefits
More than criticizing the announced changes, however, some employees worry that the cutbacks are a sign of things to come -- as Microsoft tries to reduce expenses in a broader ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Mini-Microsoft
E.g., "...the economy made us do these big cut-backs vs ... No reason to worry anymore! And three of my favorite ... She will not be a Microsoft employee by the time this fiscal year ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Online Extra: Microsoft's Mini-Me Susses Brummel
... back then, and that time he criticized Microsoft's employee ... human resources director] Ken DiPietro's cutbacks of the employee ... just announce "I'm interviewing!" and not worry ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Microsoft's JobsBlog : If you ever doubted – yep we are still hiring ...
... though, I haven’t seen Microsoft slow ... What is it about the cut-backs? You mean the cutbacks Steve Ballmer mentioned in the memo to employees? But why must Gretchen worry about it
more ...
go to website
Cached
Mini-Microsoft: July 2004
... you've been identified as a candidate for cut-backs. ... A real plain resume, don't worry about the fireworks. ... I really look forward to reading what other Microsoft employees ...
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Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs Rumors. Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors. That's all I have for you. Rumors and second-hand speculation and the comments left by the fine, good-looking folks who participate in the conversation here. So pour yourself some holiday cheer and dive in. What have those fine folks been sharing over the past couple of posts here? Bad news on the rise and with perhaps January 15th 2009 as an interesting day for Microsoft news. Bad news. 15 Jan is a week before FY09Q2 quarterly results and it's better to share as much news, good and bad, before the results are released vs. surprising Wall Street (something I think we've learned). It all starts with... Just heard on the finance grapevine. MSFT layoffs are coming on January 15th. They are substantial. And then some curious meetings: they lost 12 people in STB [...] looks like "feedback" reviews are underway to get the a-10's out of the picture as well. What kind of meeting? Perhaps like: I got invited into one of those special "manager" meetings on thursday which resolved to absolutely zero activity other than asking opaque questions for which the answer was already known. "fact" finding in order to dismiss an argument OR dismiss me :) shall find out 1/15 In Live Meeting: Live Meeting is one of the worst places to be right now - and it has gotten downright hostile and strange in recent times. People are pulled into meetings with management where they get interrogated about what they are working on ("We want to hear what you think you know about XYZ, this is not a knowledge-sharing session..."), people are given impossible tasks like coding things not yet designed, automating things not get coded, documenting unfinished ideas (all subject to being cut next week too). On top of that they must account for their time by the hour. Live Meeting is in its death throes. Breaking-up when you have no budget is another tactic (in STB): Our 120+ person org has just been broken up due to lack of budget. About 1/2 the team is staying, the other half is going to a number of different teams within the larger org. So far, we all appear to have jobs, but man, what a shocker, I thought ours was one of the more stable teams. Not sure what happens to our Director, he seemed a bit shocked himself when he delivered the news today. I also don't know if this is the first step towards a lay-off, but for now, it seems we'll have jobs for a few more months. Ugh, not good, not good at all. STB again: I got pulled into a lunch 2:1 today and got given good news on "you have 4 weeks left" STB - > Server Rumors! Like the following that I've heard wandering around chatting with folks before the holidays: I've been hearing some stealth layoffs around the SQL and BOSG groups, around 70+ people were given 6(?) weeks to find another position within the company, otherwise they are laid off. Anyone know others? Is the following a list of head-count cuts or expected percent cuts? * 3 in omps * 9 in stb * 12 in msd * 7 in devdiv * 18 in UA * 5 in MSX Beyond product groups: Finance is cutting 10% of work force. I will agree that we'll be casting a hard eye at consistent 10%-ers during MYCD: If you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OEIf you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OE But who is taking the cut? The news is in. All the money making groups cut 10% of the work force. The money losing groups hires. Vendors get it, too: Vendors are also having it bad. The funding for our project stopped and our vendor team of 28 people have been asked to leave immediately. All of us have been asked to move to India by our parent company. [...] Who should be taking a cut? One commenter points to GFS: Do you know who was killing Microsoft economically from past several years- think think think? Being one of the 65 level in this organization and spending most of my career here - I can tell you that this group was living lavish life from past many years (thank god – we have some economic crisis now and people are asking some tough questions from the managers here). I know many of you have already guessed and you are right - this group is called "GFS - Global Foundation Service" and DebraC is leading this group. (Did I use the word leading?) If you want to know how capable she is to lead this group, I encourage you to watch her latest all hands streaming that you can find on MSW. [...] There are billions of dollars hardware purchased every year across this group without any planning and I can assure you that 50% of them are not even used or required at first place. Most of the hiring in this group is not for getting things done or being innovative in datacenter world but each manager here trying to build their own empire by just hiring whether they really need it or not. Local impact? One commenter muses: As someone whose product was recently whacked, I sure hope there are some RIFs before there are out-and-out layouts (at least in my area!) Scary... 'cause in this climate, it's going to be darn tough on the economy to dump a bunch of talented folks to the curb and have them competing for slim pickings out in the rest of the world. The ripple effect on the Puget Sound economy alone (assuming the layoffs are substantially here) would be staggering. :-( Okay. So first I'd love to hear what you have heard or know as well, though I realize some of you might want to stir the pot with made-up fluff sprinkled with schaedenfruede - please don't. Second: you have to realize that the upcoming 2009 Mid Year Career Discussion review process is one of the most important career inflection-points for you that we've had in a long, long time. Already my team is being asked to review people on the HR Watch List deeply and especially look at any two-time-plus 10%'s, no matter whether they are Situation I (eh, should be fired) or Situation II (effective but have reached their career maximum - again, a horrible, horrible concept). The upcoming Stack Rank for Mid-Year is going to be super-important for determining who has to go first if your team is given an n-percent budget to cut-back on. And yes, if we fire the current 10%'ers we drop down the lower 70%'ers into the 10% bucket. So just because you don't end up in the 10% bucket don't get all happy about yourself unless you're well into a high Achieved / high 70% bucket. My suggestion to you: know when your team's Stack Rank (aka Calibration) meeting is and be very aggressive about enumerating your accomplishments this past year with your manager and asking your boss where they believe you rank within the team. Hey, I hate this system too, folks, and by me giving you advice I'm trying to prescribe some preventative medicine, not endorse the lifeboat drill that is Stack Ranking. And if you have Skip Level meetings with your upper management, you'd better figure a way that you walk out of that room with them loving you. And if you get your six weeks, you're going to have to depend on your existing Microsoft networks. Folks I know with open positions have really ratcheted up their choosiness about who they want to bring into their group and are exceptionally uninterested in unknown RIF'ed people wanting informationals, assuming that they are 10%-ers. Third: let's say we are having intensive cutbacks and/or RIFs and layoffs. It is absolutely essential that Microsoft steps back and asks, "Whoa, how did we get here and who was leading us?" How did we go on a drunken hiring binge and continue it even though a year ago most of us realized we were dropping into a recession? It's irresponsible leadership. It's especially irresponsible to the people we've hired and to the people incoming with recent offers. If you don't think too deeply, it's easy to be sipping on your Starbucks in Crossroads Mall typing away at how Microsoft needs to mass fire people so that it can refocus on essential business. But when you do it at a time when the economy is in the crapper and job openings at Microsoft is near nil is unforgivable. An important consequence is to ensure we never do this again. The first step is to cut out the people who got us here, especially by making weak hires. Everytime someone who you said "Hire" to on an interview loop gets a 10% review your ranking on hiring goes down. If they become good attrition you get dropped from interviewing. You obviously aren't a very good judge when it comes to hiring for Microsoft. Likewise, if you said "No" to someone with a bad review or "Yes" to a star performer, your ranking goes up. And all of this is made very clear to you, versus you wondering one day, "Hey, how come I haven't been on an interview loop in a while?" Next, if you've been in the way of quickly load balancing within your division according to needs vs. empire building: *poof* you're either gone or demoted. Come 22 Jan 2009 Microsoft will be asked by the analysts what it is doing to contain costs. And I believe Microsoft will have an answer. I think this is one solution that you don't want to be a part of. I'm all for cutting back, but it should have been done long ago, responsibly, vs. forced upon us. Because I believe when things turn around, groups will be lighting the sparklers and cracking open the Kristal and hiring madly again. Mini-Microsoft Microsoft Posted by Who da'Punk at Sunday, December 21, 2008
Microsoft Notebook: Company stands by cuts in benefits
More than criticizing the announced changes, however, some employees worry that the cutbacks are a sign of things to come -- as Microsoft tries to reduce expenses in a broader ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Mini-Microsoft
E.g., "...the economy made us do these big cut-backs vs ... No reason to worry anymore! And three of my favorite ... She will not be a Microsoft employee by the time this fiscal year ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Online Extra: Microsoft's Mini-Me Susses Brummel
... back then, and that time he criticized Microsoft's employee ... human resources director] Ken DiPietro's cutbacks of the employee ... just announce "I'm interviewing!" and not worry ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Microsoft's JobsBlog : If you ever doubted – yep we are still hiring ...
... though, I haven’t seen Microsoft slow ... What is it about the cut-backs? You mean the cutbacks Steve Ballmer mentioned in the memo to employees? But why must Gretchen worry about it
more ...
go to website
Cached
Mini-Microsoft: July 2004
... you've been identified as a candidate for cut-backs. ... A real plain resume, don't worry about the fireworks. ... I really look forward to reading what other Microsoft employees ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Videos from YouTube
Title: Microsoft Surface - The Possibilities
Categories: experience,multitouch,Surface,multi-touch,computer,Entertainment,interaction,table,Microsoft,
Published on: 5/30/2007 5:23:59 AM
Title: Microsoft Surface Parody
Categories: Entertainment,parody,surface,gamer,sarcastic,Microsoft,
Published on: 6/19/2007 10:11:58 PM
Title: Microsoft iPod
Categories: Comedy,microsoft,ipod,
Published on: 2/26/2006 5:26:25 PM
Title: Microsoft Windows Start-Up Sounds
Categories: 95,98,Jingles,Vista,XP,Microsoft,Up,ME,Bill,Film,2000,NT,Start,Windows,Gates,Sounds,Start-Up,
Published on: 4/22/2007 12:44:02 PM
Title: Microsoft oPhone
Categories: Entertainment,ophone,mobile,apple,smartphone,phone,iphone,microsoft,
Published on: 5/7/2007 8:19:25 PM
Title Microsoft Employees worry Cut-Backs published to hrhughes.
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Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs Rumors. Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors. That's all I have for you. Rumors and second-hand speculation and the comments left by the fine, good-looking folks who participate in the conversation here. So pour yourself some holiday cheer and dive in. What have those fine folks been sharing over the past couple of posts here? Bad news on the rise and with perhaps January 15th 2009 as an interesting day for Microsoft news. Bad news. 15 Jan is a week before FY09Q2 quarterly results and it's better to share as much news, good and bad, before the results are released vs. surprising Wall Street (something I think we've learned). It all starts with... Just heard on the finance grapevine. MSFT layoffs are coming on January 15th. They are substantial. And then some curious meetings: they lost 12 people in STB [...] looks like "feedback" reviews are underway to get the a-10's out of the picture as well. What kind of meeting? Perhaps like: I got invited into one of those special "manager" meetings on thursday which resolved to absolutely zero activity other than asking opaque questions for which the answer was already known. "fact" finding in order to dismiss an argument OR dismiss me :) shall find out 1/15 In Live Meeting: Live Meeting is one of the worst places to be right now - and it has gotten downright hostile and strange in recent times. People are pulled into meetings with management where they get interrogated about what they are working on ("We want to hear what you think you know about XYZ, this is not a knowledge-sharing session..."), people are given impossible tasks like coding things not yet designed, automating things not get coded, documenting unfinished ideas (all subject to being cut next week too). On top of that they must account for their time by the hour. Live Meeting is in its death throes. Breaking-up when you have no budget is another tactic (in STB): Our 120+ person org has just been broken up due to lack of budget. About 1/2 the team is staying, the other half is going to a number of different teams within the larger org. So far, we all appear to have jobs, but man, what a shocker, I thought ours was one of the more stable teams. Not sure what happens to our Director, he seemed a bit shocked himself when he delivered the news today. I also don't know if this is the first step towards a lay-off, but for now, it seems we'll have jobs for a few more months. Ugh, not good, not good at all. STB again: I got pulled into a lunch 2:1 today and got given good news on "you have 4 weeks left" STB - > Server Rumors! Like the following that I've heard wandering around chatting with folks before the holidays: I've been hearing some stealth layoffs around the SQL and BOSG groups, around 70+ people were given 6(?) weeks to find another position within the company, otherwise they are laid off. Anyone know others? Is the following a list of head-count cuts or expected percent cuts? * 3 in omps * 9 in stb * 12 in msd * 7 in devdiv * 18 in UA * 5 in MSX Beyond product groups: Finance is cutting 10% of work force. I will agree that we'll be casting a hard eye at consistent 10%-ers during MYCD: If you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OEIf you have to 10% an employee who was in this bucket last review you may well find yourself showing them the door. This means that we can meet VP goals of no lay-offs (we are pruning poor performers) yet be seen to be reducing OE But who is taking the cut? The news is in. All the money making groups cut 10% of the work force. The money losing groups hires. Vendors get it, too: Vendors are also having it bad. The funding for our project stopped and our vendor team of 28 people have been asked to leave immediately. All of us have been asked to move to India by our parent company. [...] Who should be taking a cut? One commenter points to GFS: Do you know who was killing Microsoft economically from past several years- think think think? Being one of the 65 level in this organization and spending most of my career here - I can tell you that this group was living lavish life from past many years (thank god – we have some economic crisis now and people are asking some tough questions from the managers here). I know many of you have already guessed and you are right - this group is called "GFS - Global Foundation Service" and DebraC is leading this group. (Did I use the word leading?) If you want to know how capable she is to lead this group, I encourage you to watch her latest all hands streaming that you can find on MSW. [...] There are billions of dollars hardware purchased every year across this group without any planning and I can assure you that 50% of them are not even used or required at first place. Most of the hiring in this group is not for getting things done or being innovative in datacenter world but each manager here trying to build their own empire by just hiring whether they really need it or not. Local impact? One commenter muses: As someone whose product was recently whacked, I sure hope there are some RIFs before there are out-and-out layouts (at least in my area!) Scary... 'cause in this climate, it's going to be darn tough on the economy to dump a bunch of talented folks to the curb and have them competing for slim pickings out in the rest of the world. The ripple effect on the Puget Sound economy alone (assuming the layoffs are substantially here) would be staggering. :-( Okay. So first I'd love to hear what you have heard or know as well, though I realize some of you might want to stir the pot with made-up fluff sprinkled with schaedenfruede - please don't. Second: you have to realize that the upcoming 2009 Mid Year Career Discussion review process is one of the most important career inflection-points for you that we've had in a long, long time. Already my team is being asked to review people on the HR Watch List deeply and especially look at any two-time-plus 10%'s, no matter whether they are Situation I (eh, should be fired) or Situation II (effective but have reached their career maximum - again, a horrible, horrible concept). The upcoming Stack Rank for Mid-Year is going to be super-important for determining who has to go first if your team is given an n-percent budget to cut-back on. And yes, if we fire the current 10%'ers we drop down the lower 70%'ers into the 10% bucket. So just because you don't end up in the 10% bucket don't get all happy about yourself unless you're well into a high Achieved / high 70% bucket. My suggestion to you: know when your team's Stack Rank (aka Calibration) meeting is and be very aggressive about enumerating your accomplishments this past year with your manager and asking your boss where they believe you rank within the team. Hey, I hate this system too, folks, and by me giving you advice I'm trying to prescribe some preventative medicine, not endorse the lifeboat drill that is Stack Ranking. And if you have Skip Level meetings with your upper management, you'd better figure a way that you walk out of that room with them loving you. And if you get your six weeks, you're going to have to depend on your existing Microsoft networks. Folks I know with open positions have really ratcheted up their choosiness about who they want to bring into their group and are exceptionally uninterested in unknown RIF'ed people wanting informationals, assuming that they are 10%-ers. Third: let's say we are having intensive cutbacks and/or RIFs and layoffs. It is absolutely essential that Microsoft steps back and asks, "Whoa, how did we get here and who was leading us?" How did we go on a drunken hiring binge and continue it even though a year ago most of us realized we were dropping into a recession? It's irresponsible leadership. It's especially irresponsible to the people we've hired and to the people incoming with recent offers. If you don't think too deeply, it's easy to be sipping on your Starbucks in Crossroads Mall typing away at how Microsoft needs to mass fire people so that it can refocus on essential business. But when you do it at a time when the economy is in the crapper and job openings at Microsoft is near nil is unforgivable. An important consequence is to ensure we never do this again. The first step is to cut out the people who got us here, especially by making weak hires. Everytime someone who you said "Hire" to on an interview loop gets a 10% review your ranking on hiring goes down. If they become good attrition you get dropped from interviewing. You obviously aren't a very good judge when it comes to hiring for Microsoft. Likewise, if you said "No" to someone with a bad review or "Yes" to a star performer, your ranking goes up. And all of this is made very clear to you, versus you wondering one day, "Hey, how come I haven't been on an interview loop in a while?" Next, if you've been in the way of quickly load balancing within your division according to needs vs. empire building: *poof* you're either gone or demoted. Come 22 Jan 2009 Microsoft will be asked by the analysts what it is doing to contain costs. And I believe Microsoft will have an answer. I think this is one solution that you don't want to be a part of. I'm all for cutting back, but it should have been done long ago, responsibly, vs. forced upon us. Because I believe when things turn around, groups will be lighting the sparklers and cracking open the Kristal and hiring madly again. Mini-Microsoft Microsoft Posted by Who da'Punk at Sunday, December 21, 2008
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Tweets were part of the Denver plane crash, pretty moving to see what folks tweet when they are in danger ..... "Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash!" Henry Blodget | December 21, 2008 9:17 AM denverplanecrash3.jpgA Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night. The engine on the right side burst into flames. Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt. Fortunately no one was killed. In another first for Twitter, passenger Mike Wilson tweeted his miraculous escape. Read from the bottom up. And then buy this man (and everyone else on the plane) a vodka tonic! 2drinksbehind Just got done with an interview on Fox News. All so surreal. 36 minutes ago from twitterrific
@mark_menard sorry - he was on the successful flight this morning about 4 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to mark_menard
Just left a family Christmas party. about 4 hours ago from twitterrific
Found out chairman of Continental was on our flight. That's putting your money where your mouth is. about 7 hours ago from
twitterrific Wife just picked me up from the airport. Relieved. about 7 hours ago from twitterrific
Touchdown! The crowd goes wild! about 8 hours ago from twitterrific
@MetalRox gratz! about 10 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to MetalRox
@showtunes no-won't get our luggage for a while I think and sounded like my mac is likely melted to the floor about 11 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to showtunes
@richard_holland those who would/could fly again and were still wanting to get to Houston. I wonder how many took the bus instead? about 11 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to richard_holland
The real reason :) http://twitpic.com/uyrn about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Crash #1 was a "water landing" in a small plane. about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
I'm sitting as close to the exit as possible this time http://twitpic.com/uyqb about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Media circus ensues. Sitting on the plane waiting to take off about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Waiting in the continental club for the "replacement" flight. Noticing I'm a little sore. about 12 hours ago from twitterrific
@ranchwoman I didn't run into anyone from SA, but there certainly may have been about 12 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to ranchwoman
Heading to the airport for another try at flying to Houston. about 12 hours ago from twitterrific
Must have crossed wires. I'm not Mike. Please check your contact info. about 13 hours ago from txt
Pretty exhausted at this point, so I'm heading off to bed. Good night! about 20 hours ago from web
I'm very grateful to still be here. Thanks again to all the well wishers. I'm amazed and humbled by it all. about 20 hours ago from web
@mjcarrasquillo this was on takeoff. I'm not sure, but I would speculate some type of mechanical failure. about 20 hours ago from web in reply to mjcarrasquillo
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Title Plane crash tweets published to hrhughes.
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Tweets were part of the Denver plane crash, pretty moving to see what folks tweet when they are in danger ..... "Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash!" Henry Blodget | December 21, 2008 9:17 AM denverplanecrash3.jpgA Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night. The engine on the right side burst into flames. Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt. Fortunately no one was killed. In another first for Twitter, passenger Mike Wilson tweeted his miraculous escape. Read from the bottom up. And then buy this man (and everyone else on the plane) a vodka tonic! 2drinksbehind Just got done with an interview on Fox News. All so surreal. 36 minutes ago from twitterrific
@mark_menard sorry - he was on the successful flight this morning about 4 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to mark_menard
Just left a family Christmas party. about 4 hours ago from twitterrific
Found out chairman of Continental was on our flight. That's putting your money where your mouth is. about 7 hours ago from
twitterrific Wife just picked me up from the airport. Relieved. about 7 hours ago from twitterrific
Touchdown! The crowd goes wild! about 8 hours ago from twitterrific
@MetalRox gratz! about 10 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to MetalRox
@showtunes no-won't get our luggage for a while I think and sounded like my mac is likely melted to the floor about 11 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to showtunes
@richard_holland those who would/could fly again and were still wanting to get to Houston. I wonder how many took the bus instead? about 11 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to richard_holland
The real reason :) http://twitpic.com/uyrn about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Crash #1 was a "water landing" in a small plane. about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
I'm sitting as close to the exit as possible this time http://twitpic.com/uyqb about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Media circus ensues. Sitting on the plane waiting to take off about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Waiting in the continental club for the "replacement" flight. Noticing I'm a little sore. about 12 hours ago from twitterrific
@ranchwoman I didn't run into anyone from SA, but there certainly may have been about 12 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to ranchwoman
Heading to the airport for another try at flying to Houston. about 12 hours ago from twitterrific
Must have crossed wires. I'm not Mike. Please check your contact info. about 13 hours ago from txt
Pretty exhausted at this point, so I'm heading off to bed. Good night! about 20 hours ago from web
I'm very grateful to still be here. Thanks again to all the well wishers. I'm amazed and humbled by it all. about 20 hours ago from web
@mjcarrasquillo this was on takeoff. I'm not sure, but I would speculate some type of mechanical failure. about 20 hours ago from web in reply to mjcarrasquillo
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[H] Enthusiast --- enthusiast.hardocp.com
Tweets Capture Plane Crash in Real Time. I don’t normally pay attention to tweets from Twitter users but this one is unique. Mike Wilson was a passenger on the Continental flight ...
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Plane crash survivor - 18 Nov 2008 - NZ Herald: International and ...
Seven people died in a plane crash on a remote island off British Columbia's south coast ... Read our tweets »
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Plane crash survivor - 18 Nov 2008 - Air Accidents news - NZ Herald
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Plane crash inquiry focusing on weather: An investigation into a plane crash which killed four people in .. http://tinyurl.com/6rt96e about 5 hours ago from twitterfeed
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Man uses Twitter to describe Denver Continental crash aftermath
Historic text: Man 'tweets' plane crash aftermath London: Film appeal for missing Maddie Emergency slides: Jet catches fire, 38 passengers injured United States: More US troops to fight Taliban Rubber duckie: NASA's lost toys key to glacier New York: ...
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Source: News.com.au
NewsDateTime: 2 hours ago
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Source: Wired
NewsDateTime: 10/31/2008
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Title: The Traveling Wilburys, Tweeter and The Monkey Man
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Published on: 5/24/2008 12:06:25 PM
Title: Plasma Speaker / Tweeter - Completed Working Setup
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Title: Nina Simone - Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
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Title: Tweeter and the Monkey Man - The Headstones
Categories: agrogreen,our,save,ron,and,Headstones,the,paul,Monkey,earth,Tweeter,love,Man,Music,
Published on: 6/17/2008 6:50:41 PM
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