[olug] Info USA layoffs?

[mØntar3]

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 From what I hear, you're not wrong. That job post looks like some HR 
staffer justifying their existense. I've seen other posts like this go 
past on Careerlink over the months.

InfoUSA, Ameritrade, West Corp (just to name 3) are companies (read 
"bootlicker bootcamps") that hire and fire in batches of what they 
consider "unskilled" labor. Much of the dirty work is santized through 
staffing companies (read "pimps"). The pimping cycle completes before 
any employer-employee commitment is developed (2--3 months).

If I were to tell me that this attitude (non-accountability, 
no-owernship, replaceable-part humanoidals) doesn't permenate through 
the IT insulation barrier I'd be kidding me.

InfoUSA off http://news.google.com:

Shrink?
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=46&u_sid=1076426

Grow?
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11377939&BRD=2554&PAG=461&dept_id=507134&rfi=6

Profit down?
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=46&u_sid=1066784

Stock inflation?
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040420/206336_1.html

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Charles Bird wrote:

>That infousa crap has been up since at least november, thats  when I started looking for work in this area.
>I never bothered to contact them because the company name sounds cheesy, and just thought the company has a cheesy purpose, therefore not stable. I could be wrong.
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>From: CM Miller <cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com>
>Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
>To: cybersean3000 at yahoo.com, Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>Subject: Re: [olug] Info USA layoffs?
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>>as said eariler, another ghost job...
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>>--- Sean Edwards <cybersean3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>Info USA laid off about 200 people very recently. 
>>>Does anybody still think this is a real job posting?
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>>http://www.whohasjobs.com/state/ne/city/omaha/poframe.htm?house=0054&biscuit=757115912&clicks=3&career=0310&industry=0&doco=caabi&po=001252&use=
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