Informal Poll WAS RE: [geeks] Laid off blues

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "James Sharp" <jsharp at psychoses.org>
> > We're a hair's breadth from profitability.  One more client, of any
size,
> > will make us profitable.  Add to that some very large contracts in the
sale
> > pipeline are coming close to reality, and I'm very comfortable here.
> > Anyhting could happen though... (crossing fingers, again).
> >
>
> When suits are involved, anything is possible.  Once you get
> profitability, someone will decide to hire 20 or 30 more vice presidents.

Why hire external unknown quantities who may turn out to be clueful when you
can promote from within and guarantee incompetence? :)