Conference 7.286::digital

    
    why create a whole new note on this when there are probably plenty to
    add to. doesn't make any sense.

    Excuse me .1
    
    Why not add a new note?  Why go back to old notes.  This one will be
    current.
    
    Do you have anything else to contribute?

    
    This has been going on for over 6 years in this company.
    
    How can anyone possibly be being "broad-sided"??
    
    This is the only way this company knows how to cut expenses, cut cut
    cut, and when you're done cutting, cut again!
    
    Keep your skills current, and if/when the cut comes, you will be able
    to get another job fairly quickly.  The Boston Globe had over 108 pages
    of high-tech jobs this past Sunday!
    
    One of my past supervisors always used to say:
    
    There are no victims, only volunteers!
    
    /art

    ref .3
    
    Good advise.  The best thing is to keep your skills current.
    
    Concerning being "broad-sided"; my point was that there are still some
    employees who are working harder than ever and believe in Digital, only
    to be tapped on the shoulder to be told that they are being cut. 
    Believe me it does happen.

    re .4
    
    Working hard doesn't necessarily mean working "smart", and many
    are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time...there's no
    helping that.

RE: <<< Note 4839.2 by COPS01::JNOSTIN >>>

>    Why not add a new note?  Why go back to old notes.

Having the discussion in one note means that future people who come looking for
information will have an easier time of finding and reading what might help
them.

I dislike it when I go to research something, and DIR/TITLE=xxx lists 57 notes
which sound like they pertain to the subject of choice. I then have to navigate
through all those notes, some of which will prove irrelevant. Much preferable
(for me) to see things on the topic in one note. 

As to currency, I have often found it advantageous to have entries which span
many years located together, as one can more readily see the changes which have
ocurred over time.
						-- Tom

    I agree with .2 that a new note is better than adding to some of the
    older notes. It take less time to look at the latest information rather
    than have to screen through hundreds of replies to get the straight
    skinny on what's happening at the present.
    
    Hopefully someone will update this with what groups are being hit and
    to what degree. Good luck to all...!
    
    George 8^)

Re: 4839.3:

	One of my past supervisors always used to say: There are no
	victims, only volunteers!

Glib, facile, and stupid.  Just the stuff for the late 90s.

___Pete


Insert here your favorite counterexample.  Personally I happened to think
of all the members of my family who were annihilated by the Nazis; TWA
flight 800; and Dan Kalikow.

    I have heard, rumor only, that Digital is in the process of TFSOing
    all the bid/win teams.  Anyone know anything?
    

    re .9
    
    and we'll probably keep the bid/lose teams...
    
    sorry, It's been an awful day.

    
    	RE: .7
    
    	DIR/TITLE = TFSO
    
    	Hopefully, directory "listing" contains 1 note and you now
    	type in that number, for example, 25.0
    
    	Then you can do a
    
    	DIR/ALL 25.LAST-25.0
    
    	and, by looking for a date that's pretty close to the 1
    	you want to start at, type in the number for that note
    	and reply [for example, 25.1000] and start reading from
    	there.
    

    
    	There are 42 notes in here with TFSO in the title.  That's
    	about 40 too many [since a few are "goodbye" notes from dep-
    	arting employees].
    
    	For a good example of "ridiculous redundancy", take a look
    	at the titles [and authors] of 2233 and 2235.
    

    Re. TFSO bid win teams
    
    I do not believe that to be true. This would happen AFTER we turn off
    the lights and close the doors.

    Couldn't we just start up an internal home page titled TFSO and put it
    all there?  I mean, it's behind our firewall and everything and we
    could even make it an initiative of the new Employee Partnership
    Program.  Heck if you are smart and looking for work, you could
    volunteer to do this for Mother Digital, they'd train you on Hot Metal
    and Java Script and then when it's your turn you are fully trained to
    hit the streets.  Ha who says there's no solutions amongst the mockery
    of life!
    
    Mav

Yes, it makes complete sense to have 43 instead of 42 notes. Why not
try for 44, or 45?

    Let's please try to keep to the subject of the base note.  All of you
    who think we should not have started a new note on TFSO have had your
    say.
    
    If you think this note is stupid, etc. then don't participate in this
    note.  Get a life!

      Hum, friday the 13th is coming, but I'm gone on the 27th. I have been
    informed for some time now and I wish they would tell me to leave now!
    
     Tj

Like, which replies are off the subject? What *is* the subject? And if
you can nail down the 'subject', what does 'get a life' have to do
with it?

Pete

        Re .2
        
�    Why not add a new note?  Why go back to old notes.  This one will be
�    current.
        
        This logic tends to imply that you don't understand how notes
        works. Please try the notes command:
        
        	set seen/before=10-sep-1996:20:15
        
        then hit <ENTER> (*NOT* <RETURN>).  If you do it right you'll
        see how replies can be "current" in old topics.
        
        ~Ian.