At 09:37 PM 12/1/98 -0800, Kathy E. Gill so eloquently stated:
>At 12:21 PM +1000 12/2/98, Bruce Young wrote:
>>Hi Kathy
>>
>>Are you one of the 48,000??
>
>ah ... i'm behind here. have they made another cut announcement? i'm on my
>first day of holiday and haven't read the paper or listened to news today.
>
>i'm a contractor -- and all contractors are under intense scrutiny. many
>depts are just letting all of us go, with no analysis.
>
>i've been asked back in january to do a non-web-related training project.
>the program i'm working with has been somewhat exempt from the contractor
>cuts because
A total of 48,000 people let go -- two waves of 20,000 and
28,000. I would suspect that contractors have a better chance
for survival than does employees. At least that seems to be the
case in many of the large pharmaceutical companies here in NJ.
My sister is a contract programmer and has worked for them for
the past 8 years. Seems without benefits, large companies can
work different deals into their budget.
Good luck
George
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