HP to cut 9,000 jobs

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010


Computers and machines are taking over and killing jobs, folks. It’s time to go back to the pre-cotton gin era when work actually consisted of labor. HP is set to eliminate 9,000 jobs after spending $1 billion dollars implementing more streamlined processes with automating data centers.

The process will take several years, but in the end eliminate 3% of HP’s 300,000 employees. It’s probably best that we set off a multiple EMPs worldwide and kill anything with a circuit board before they , as in the computers, amass enough power to eliminate all the jobs. That’s the sane thing to do.

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