[Info-vax] VSI employee retirements

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-01, Douy Xebis <aarr at uodobdu.db> wrote:
> On 1/23/2023 8:09 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-01-22, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I heard from an old friend and Dealer in the VSI neighborhood that a few
>>> more got their pink slips a few weeks ago.
>>> This has got to be unnerving for the employees
>>>
>>
>> Ok, that's rather different from people choosing to leave and finally
>> retire. It's also a little worrying if true, because where VSI are
>> finally at with VMS means they should, if anything, currently be hiring
>> more employees to handle the workload from people moving to x86-64.
>>
>> Do you know for sure that people have been fired by VSI or is this
>> really still people just deciding to leave VSI to retire ?
>
> About a dozen engineers were fired.

Well, that's not a good sign. :-(

Are you allowed to say whether it was in an area that VSI has decided
not to proceed with or was it general cost cutting to get the expenses
down ?

Simon.

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