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A Sad Day For Flight Simmers

Post Date: 2009-01-22
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    Posted: 22 Jan 2009 at 11:43pm

I do feel sorry for the people laid off.  I've never tried a flight sim before.  So many games, so little time.
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I am not a flight simmer, but I do feel bad for the guys for getting laid off, the first time ever MS laid of its staff!
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Personally i'd rather them lay 10,000 people off than go bankrupt and put 100,000+ out of jobs. It sounds bad i know, but think about it.
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man, i miss the days when, as an 8-year-old, i played Fighter Ace 2 for like 6 hours a day on mah old 95. those were the days ;_; although i haven't played a flight sim for a while, it's sad to hear the big guys are taking hits.
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Im not saying im agreeing with it HM. Im just saying it could be worse.
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Lots of places are cutting jobs, Intel, ms everybody is cutting and losing jobs

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Man I'm hurting too over here, hope it doesn't get to that for you HM.

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ya im also one of those that lost there jobs.I worked at Delphi Corp.and because GM went down,we went down.So lets just send some more sh*t oversea's.Bush was a total,well im not gonna say it'll be bad !!!
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Originally posted by harleyman

Originally posted by PatrickB

Personally i'd rather them lay 10,000 people off than go bankrupt and put 100,000+ out of jobs. It sounds bad i know, but think about it.
 
The reason they are doing this is because their profits were down the last two quarters several billion dollare...MS is still making billions every quarter....
 
Its the bean counters and corporate America at its best...........
 
Some say its Vista and Zoon...But I won't speculate on that at all...


Oh... I feel *so* sorry for them.  Right behind the Oil companies.
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Well, that all the more reflects my disdain for Microsoft.  They're making billions.. but not as many billions as before.  And they still feel the need to fire people just because they're not lining the pockets of the executives as much?

Yeah, it sucks for those being let go.  But my ire isn't on them.
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MrNanite is wright,its all corporate greed !!!!  Delphi had  wage restructuring 2 yrs ago to come out of bankruptcy.They still cant make money so where do you think the money's going? Yup in the fat cats pocket.
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I'm all for the "tar and feather" approach.
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