__/ [ Jim Richardson ] on Wednesday 20 September 2006 06:59 \__
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> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:48:13 -0500,
> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:08:11 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
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>>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:19:37 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> The company is falling apart. Here is just a mere sample of recent
>>>>> departures.
>>>>
>>>> You know, of a company of 75,000, a lot of people come and go, even
>>>> executives, on a regular basis. 5 years ago, when this happened, unless
>>>> it
>>>> was very high profile, nobody ever noticed. Today, because of blogs,
>>>> you are getting information that would not have been available to you
>>>> then.
>>>>
>>>> How many people, including executives, do you think leave IBM every
>>>> year?
>>>
>>> It's "JUST A BIT ODD" that the cream has decided to jump ship... Perhaps
>>> the rising waters, of a ship going under, is too much to endure...
>>
>> The "cream"? What are you talking about?
>>
>> Name one "cream" that's jumped ship? Bill Gates is simply retiring. Most
>> of the others are mid-level executives moving to other kinds of ventures.
>> Big deal.
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> One indicator is how many chairs Ballmer is buying for his office this
> month...
You could even capitalise "office".
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