Comments on: Even UT takes an IT layoff hickey http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/even-ut-takes-an-it-layoff-hickey/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:20:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Edtittel http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/even-ut-takes-an-it-layoff-hickey/#comment-116 Edtittel Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:07:33 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/?p=478#comment-116 To TXITNinja: Even 25 times $50K is a cool 2.5 million, so I don't think Mack can really afford to cover that many of the dearly departed. Sigh. To Troy Tate: I'm guessing this was no easy nor trivial decision to make, but would love to know more to put it into context. Enjoyed your blog though: very good observations throughout. Thanks for posting. --Ed-- To TXITNinja: Even 25 times $50K is a cool 2.5 million, so I don’t think Mack can really afford to cover that many of the dearly departed. Sigh.
To Troy Tate: I’m guessing this was no easy nor trivial decision to make, but would love to know more to put it into context. Enjoyed your blog though: very good observations throughout. Thanks for posting.

–Ed–

]]> By: Troy Tate http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/even-ut-takes-an-it-layoff-hickey/#comment-115 Troy Tate Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:08:19 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/?p=478#comment-115 The unfortunate IT workers sure got hooked by some horns somewhere. I definitely understand the serving more with less idea. In fact this past April I wrote [A href="http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-trenches/doing-less-with-less-the-glass-is-the-wrong-size/"]Doing less with less - the glass is the wrong size![/A]. Maybe the UT group reviewed what folks were doing and just thought they were overstaffed? ... yeah... like any IT group would say they have too many people ;) The unfortunate IT workers sure got hooked by some horns somewhere. I definitely understand the serving more with less idea. In fact this past April I wrote Doing less with less - the glass is the wrong size!. Maybe the UT group reviewed what folks were doing and just thought they were overstaffed? … yeah… like any IT group would say they have too many people ;)

]]> By: Txitninja http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/even-ut-takes-an-it-layoff-hickey/#comment-114 Txitninja Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:04:34 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-jobs/?p=478#comment-114 Why not just shave a couple hundred thousand dollars off of Mack Brown's salary? Why not just shave a couple hundred thousand dollars off of Mack Brown’s salary?

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