As I’m sure a fair number of you will now know there has been something of a fallout following HP’s Q1 results. First off if you haven’t read the article I linked to on the Reg then some of this might not make sense but trust me it is interesting and worth a read, including or especially the comments.
There’s no doubting these are interesting times. I remember when I did my work experience with TWR about 7 years ago, I went in on the Wednesday and got taken into the VR suite, when I came out a few hundred people had lost their jobs including my supervisor. That was a very strange environment to be in but not nearly as interesting as what is being proposed at HP, to take a voluntary paycut.
In a way I’m quite lucky in being on a fixed short-term contract, the odds are by the time any of this takes place I’ll be back in Portsmouth. Having said that the way things are being handled around here isn’t half shaping my view of whether I’d want to come back here as a graduate.
I’m blabbering I know but it’s hard deciding what I can and can’t say, I guess really I just need to vent just a little.
Dan