Joseph Bento wrote:
> What we are beginning to see is unprecedented.  They can talk
> historical recovery of the markets all they like, but the US economy
> is no longer tied to just the USA.  If we are seeing the beginning
> stages of global equalization,

We are not beginning to see it.  Where have you been the last 20 years!!?
Globalization has been going on for quite a while already.  This probably
explains why you got stuck getting dumped instead of seeing it coming and
doing something about before it was too late.

This reminds me a lot of when DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) started
going downhill in the mid 1980s.  They were very big in this area, and
everyone knew a few people working for DEC.  Their slide into
uncompetitiveness was obvious to anyone with half a brain, so those people
got out when they could over the course of 5 years or so.  There were some
good people working there.  Then the inevitable happened and there were
large layoffs.  I knew several hiring managers that told me that any resumes
from somone layed off from DEC automatically go into the "last resort" pile.
There were a few rare good people that stayed to the end because they had a
good thing going, but mostly those left were bozos that were too dumb to see
the ship was sinking or too incompetent to get on anyone else's ship.  If
you've got more resumes than you have time to read, you go with
probabilities to cut down the pile.  Weeding out by DEC made sense.


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