From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: matt@proweb.co.uk To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01073018501500.71906@matt.thebigchoice.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] lucent not the bright light it used to be Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:50:15 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7fbf4ce-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 more news on Lucent from the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/20729.html this time it's reducing the electric bill I sure hope the company pulls through. I've seen a lot of cool stuff come from Lucent in the past few years. I'm not sure how people in the company feel but I guess it's a pretty stressful place to work atm. esp. for those of them who ended up under the Lucent umbrella through aquisitions and the like. My previous employer was put out of business when the parent company went broke despite our subsidiary being profitabile. Mind you it work out alright for my dept. in the end. We started out on our own and took our best clients with us and most of us ended up with a larger salary and shed an annoying layer of managment that got in the way of doing our thing. M