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Qualcomm layoffs begin
That's not a bad way of looking at the news. Sometimes, depending on the source, one could even look at the news as being more pure marketing and PR. Like maybe a hotel magnate who calls himself "Daddy" or "Papa" or some silly nickname like that buys a local newspaper to help shore up political power and influence.— September 19, 2015 5:31 a.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
??? Where is that quote? I didn't see it on either this page or thelayoff.com ???— September 18, 2015 9:22 p.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
My experience has been there's usually fire when there's smoke. If you want to completely write off everyones' posts as unverified rumors of course that's your perogative and may most appropriate from a journalistic perspective. But I think the rumors provide useful information and when all the rumors are trending one way they are usually correct.— September 18, 2015 9:31 a.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
There seems to be a lot of rumors, many posted on thelayoff.com indicating that this week's RIF is only phase 1. Nothing concrete yet.— September 18, 2015 6:49 a.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
I've heard in Brazil wealthy people do travel in vehicles like that due to fear of kidnapping and crime. It's one problem in societies with a large ratio of income from the upper classes to the lower classes. I don't think the USA is at this point yet but USA income distribution is trending to a larger ratio from upper to lower classes.— September 17, 2015 9:53 p.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
Another thing that seems like a bad PR / insensitive timing is the number of M/A announcements this week for QCOM. You would think they could have waited another week to make announcements of spending millions of dollars for companies like SJsemi and Ikanos— September 17, 2015 7:13 p.m.
Qualcomm layoffs begin
There are rumors of a 2nd phase of layoffs in Jan-Feb. Any word on that?— September 17, 2015 3:07 p.m.
Issa says criminal history should be shielded
CA's annual expenses per prisoner are higher than most states due in large part to higher compensation for prison guards than most other states. This higher compensation is due in part to the heavy influence public employee unions have on CA government. http://calwatchdog.com/2011/05/25/jerry-brown-pri… The union for the prison guards is clearly powerful and has been able to advocate (bribe?) public officials such as Gov. Brown for better benefits. But there is the potential for the prison guards' union to use their power and influence for something worse than advocating for better compensation. They could push legislators to make laws which put more people in prison which would lead to more money for prison guards and their union! Of course, as a state we shouldn't have more people sent to prison just so the prison guards make more money. One would hope that the "tough-on-crime" position advocated for by prison guards union is solely motivated by a desire to protect citizens from criminals. One would hope that the prison guards and their union would have enough integrity to avoid using their influence to put more people in prison just so they could make more money. Sorry but I don't trust a big powerful organization to forgo money and power in order to do have integrity and do the right thing. I don't know if there's proof but personally I would bet that at least part of the reason for keeping more people in prison in CA is to benefit prison employee unions.— September 15, 2015 3:40 a.m.
Issa says criminal history should be shielded
It is interesting to look up genealogical history. Websites such as ancestry.com and availability of inexpensive DNA tests have spurred interest in geneology But it can be hard to get reliable information when one looks centuries back. I recently had to throw a wet blanket on my first cousin's claim that we were direct descendants of Pocahontas. There is a path in my lineage to Pocahontas. Combined results of many DNA tests that ancestry.com compiled have shown that one of my ancestors in the path to Pocahontas wasn't biologically related to his listed parents. So I'm not Pocahontas' great-great-etc grandson after all.— September 14, 2015 7:40 p.m.
Issa says criminal history should be shielded
They only seem to get caught if they do something amazingly obvious - like writing menus for quid-pro-quo of bribes on a napkin (Cunningham) or leaving huge sums of cash in a refrigerator (Jefferson). In addition many forms of bribery and corruption which should obviously be illegal - like making a fortune based on investments based on insider knowledge or paying friends and family members huge sums for serving on campaign and "charities" - are somehow allowed.— September 13, 2015 10:19 a.m.