Widespread rumors of impending Genzyme layoffs. No info on the possible scale. Anything to improve our valuation ahead of a Sanofi takeover will please the activist investors and their puppets in top management. What a sad way for a once great company to meet its end. ... more...

My friend told me that IBM is looking to buy lionbridge... if this happens the working conditions ought to get better. IBM made a deal with us a few months back so I suppose buying us is the next logical step.... more...

Company over all. This company is a hard working company it has alot of leadership and potental to grow. There is a need for some good people that should apply for work. they are a non union company.... more...

Could not imagine it would ever get this bad, people are leaving in droves if not being laid off. Moral is at the lowest point ever and we are slowly realizing this train is coming off the tracks soon. Development is barely hanging on in the US.... more...

A lot of talent was lost in Shelton Engineering this week. ... more...

I joined 3 months back and got very good recognition on my first month work. I tried to do some advancements, avoid duplication of work and professional environment. In that regard, I contacted my boss and the very next week, I got laid off with no proper reason for the termination. The same thing happened to other person whom I replaced his positi... more...

Capital One is a large bank. They hire and fire in cycles. It's cheaper for them. Don't let you get too high up the payscale.
I was in a dept of about 350 people when they called everyone in one day, even if you had the day off. They hearded us down to a main room, with our names on rosters in back of room. Told us to find our names, then h... more...

At MSC the management team was rather weak in the old days with Bill and Glen, this changed when Symphony took over, now the company is lead by incompetent idiots like Gallello, Neil, Bouchiba and others. Its incredibly whats lengths they go to enrich themselves and ruin the company. I wonder whether Symphony really has a plan what to do. My predic... more...

WELDING UNLIMITED HAS LAID OFF MOST OF THEIR WORK FORCE. THEY HAVE SCARED OFF JUST ABOUT EVERY MAJOR CONTRACTOR IN TOWN DUE TO THEIR BEYOND POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE AND BUSINESS PRACTICES. THE TALENT AND THE EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL FABRICATORS ARE ALL GONE. BEFORE THE LAYOFFS WERE THEY PAY CUTS. THEY NOTIFIED THE EMPLOYEES OF PAYCUTS WITH A NOTE IN T... more...

Fundamentally the CEO & CFO are scum; Sold Ventyx to ABB for $1billion and the ABB employees/stockholdrs are repeating the benefits of people like me who worked like dogs to get THEIR family business up and running and profitable; Severance/Health/Outplacement inadequate, especially considering the top dollar the company got when sold; I'm extre... more...

President thinks he's an Emperor. Promotes his cronies that have no experience. Faculty have no say in operations. Students get ripped off.... more...

When I first started at Stanford, I was very excited about being on a campus where I would be surronded by endless possibilities, everyone had a brain, I may have an 'encounter' with someone famous, and work in environment that would truly help me blossom professionally.

Unless you are a student or faculty, you are going to be tr... more...

Highland Park is starting soon as all schools are. Though they just changed principles. Dr. Allen Deckerd retired last year so the new principle, Ronda Haun has taken over. All the students are very excited to meet there new principles.... more...

was a good school at one time until the school was sold to a board member yes, the school is owned by one board member... more...

Dear all,

Please dont work at St.Andrews as there is no job security there... more...

Recently I read a letter praising Carol Shea-Porter for being independent, voting her conscience and denying that she votes in lock step with the president and the democratic leadership. Apparently Shea-Porter’s conscience is from the same mold as Nancy Pelosi’s since she’s voted with Pelosi 98 percent of the time.

Here’s wh... more...

Jack White is one of the new breed of Rock & Roll stars to come forth in the last decade. His guitar work is now really finding it's footing and he is one of the busiest musicians on the planet with three bands - The White Strips, Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. Each band has it's flavor, but each also has Jack Whites guitar and voice as the core ... more...

Obama was elected by offering false hope and false promise to an angry, emotional and largely uninformed electorate. His modern day smoke & mirrors show suckered in the naive and ignorant like flies to honey. And many, who understand zilch about politics continue to blindly worship this deceitful fraud as he plunders along.

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