[olug] Info USA layoffs?

[Sean Edwards]

Very well put!

-=Sean Edwards=-

--- mØntar3 <m0ntar3 at cox.net> wrote:
> <warning type="off topic" subtype="rant">
> 
>  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
> 
> </warning>
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >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?
> >
> >  
> >
> >>as said eariler, another ghost job...
> >>
> >>
> >>--- Sean Edwards <cybersean3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Info USA laid off about 200 people very recently.
> 
> >>>Does anybody still think this is a real job
> posting?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
>
>>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=
> >>    
> >>
> >>>-=Sean=-
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