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From: bill@hpfcms.UUCP (bill)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 15:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 15:43:00 1985
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In article <3865@alice.UUCP> wolit@alice.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky) writes:
>The big question this week is, when Reagan urged America's youth to
>emulate the entrepreneurial spirit of those young men who started a
>multi-million dollar high-tech company in their garage, was he
>referring to Apple Computer, which last week layed off 1,200 workers
>and closed three of its six plants, or to Hewlett-Packard, which today
>announced that its 84,000 employees would be furloughed for three days
>next month?
Reagan's aide says Apple. However, I work for HP, and I want to clarify
the above statement about employees being "furloughed". We are not.
We are being asked to take 3 days' vacation in July, in order to get
that "vacation debt" off the books, and to get people out of the plants
during this slack order time so we can shut off computers, lights, etc.
Thus, the time off is with pay, and nobody's being layed off. HP has
long had a no-layoff policy that we are quite proud of (and thankful for).
US News and World Report also implied that the time off was without pay,
or was a layoff. I just want to set the record straight that this is NOT
the case.
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I guess Reagan should have used HP for his example to emulate. We've laid
off no one, and shut down no plants, when lots of other companies have. In
fact, no one has ever lost an HP job as a result of bad times. A 10% pay cut
perhaps (this happened sometime in the early 70's), but never a job.
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Bill Gates
HP
Ft. Collins, CO