Conference 7.286::digital

    If you're in the SBU, you've probably already been forwarded the memo
    from Harry Copperman, "Subject: A:  Eye on the Ball in Q4".  His advice
    is to focus on the strategic growth opportunities that he outlined and
    stop the wheel-spinning.
    
    Mark

    
    Mark, believe me, as a loyal foot soldier for Digital for over 8
    years now, I DO keep my eye on the ball and honor my contract
    with Digital (and yes, read that memo too). The company
    however also has to "come up clean" in as much as it can, maybe
    by simply stating what was so erroreous about that article, for
    example. We are all grown up, have gone through the ringer a few
    times, so we can take not-so-rosy news.
    
    
    

The correct usl is :


	http://techweb.cmp.com/techweb/crn/maydigest/may28digH.html

    
    The writer of the article is way off base. Not to mention that, this
    certain publication seems to have "it in" for us. This is the second
    time in a couple of months that they have published very erroneous
    information about Digital. Writers like him should be taken to task,
    in a swift and orderly fashion.
    
    Mark

re: .5

>    The writer of the article is way off base.

All he's doing is quoting "sources" from inside the company.  There are
people inside the company saying the kinds of things he paraphrases, so
he can't be too far off base.  Now whether those "sources" know what
they're talking about remains to be seen.

It's interesting to me that there has been so little discussion of this
topic.  That's certainly a change from what would've been the case if
you speculated a few years back that the company was going to cut 20% of
its workforce all at once.

- paul

    RE:    <<< Note 4641.5 by ACISS1::BATTIS The writer of the article is
    	   <<< way off base
    
    Mark,
    
    		Being basically naive, I'm one to panic at the mere mention
    		of some reputable(?) publication reporting something like
    		this.
    
    		I'm also of a mind that they should be "taken to task" if
    		the info is crapola but, experience tells me that these
    		"Stories" usually spring from some seed of truth (no matter
    		how much they're bastardized in the final version ie 10
    		becomes 100, 1000 becomes 10,000).
    
    		Though it might be foolish of me to think that one of the 
    		functions of DIGITAL P.R. is to rebut these type of things,
    		it would certainly make me, as well as a ton of other folks
    		I'll betcha, feel better to have them do just that.
    
    		Anything other than a "swift and orderly" task-taking only
    		serves to perpetuate this type of rumor.
    
    		Living in a perfect world,
    
    		Steve W.

    IMO, it WOULD be foolish to spend time sending out rebuttals.
    
    Mark

    A note on Rumors coming from this notes file in the past.
    
    I would speculate that 85% of the time rumors reported here
    have come true in the past. Ive been with the company 19 years and
    the lack of "notes flying" indicates one thing maybe two....
    
    	No ones left..... to write notes
    
    	No one cares........... ie sees the futility of it!
    
    Mike Turro
    Baltimore Maryland
    Home of the Baltimore Ravens NFL Team!!
    

re: .5

The correct title for the Chicago Bulls is Champions of the Eastern 
part of the NBA.   The finals does start tonight, and won't complete 
for another few weeks;  at that point we'll have an NBA World
Champion.  

My prediction, a 5 or 6 game series.  I don't think the Sonics will
sweep in 4.

Don Randall
Seattle

    GO RAVENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    RE: .4
    
    Are you the same Mike Turro who worked in the mill on 1-3 back
    say around 1972-74?

    
    .10
    
    I've been using this personal name since March. Nobody's disagreed with
    it until now. seeing as you're from Seattle, you have my sympathies.
    your team won't last more than 5 games, most likely 4.

    amen....
    

    Gee, must be something wrong with my Notes Client. I thought this note
    was about the rumored Q4 adjustment, but .10-.14 would lead me to
    believe this is a Sports related conference... 
    
    ;8^)

    
    <----- well Q4 adjustements are sort of sport related. They due
    tend to make us all jump through hoops, hence the comments. :-)

re: .16
    
>    <----- well Q4 adjustements are sort of sport related. They due
>    tend to make us all jump through hoops, hence the comments. :-)

I would've thought they were more medicine/health related.  As in:
"Dr. Kevorkian, another Digital employee to see you!"

;^)
paul

    
    yo Don Randall. What do you think of your beloved Sonics now?????
    
    Did they forget to show up last night?

    O.K. folks, please take the NBA discussion to another conference.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Bob - Co-moderator DIGITAL
    
    

re Note 4641.22 by PEAKS::MERTZ:

>                                         -< We're NOT going for growth in Q4??? >-
  
        Given the layoffs and layoff targets I've seen, well, no.

        Bob

	Layoff targets.... now there is a scary phrase. How come we let all the
other targets we set slip, but never this one?


Glen

    re-1
    
      Is it because layoff targets are easier for the suits to achieve?
    
      Tim