Re: [9fans] ddc

[presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com]

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Ken left on his own 6 months ahead of the first incentive
(to leave) offer last year.  He wasn't downsized, though he
seems to have lost a bit of weight since.  If he'ld decided
to stay, he would have been safe till the heat death of the
company.  He left because he wasn't having fun any more and
wanted to do something different.

Lucent has been very protective of research despite the
`troubles'.  While the company shed over 2/3 of its employees,
our center is only about 15% smaller than its largest size.

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From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ddc
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:55:32 -0800
Message-ID: <3DCAC534.7000507@nas.com>

presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Lucent's woes has caused many researchers to leave.  Our lab is
> showing the strain and we've just been told that we're going to
> get hit with the next wave of firings.  In the last few years
> we've lost Ken Thompson, Phil Winterbottom, Sean Dorward, and
> just recently Sean Quinlan, and Rob Pike.

I knew things weren't peachy at the Labs, but I didn't realize they were
   abysmal.

Plus, what a great way to bolster investor confidence:

"Lucent Technologies:  We 'downsized' a National Medal of Technology
winner."

So if I win the lottery tonight, any idea of the going price for the
Computing Sciences Research Center?

(Maybe $1M in office space and gear, and another $1.5M per employee in
exchange for showing up at work when it suits them?  Bring your own
healthcare....)

-Jack

P.S.

I'd hire your glassblower, too.  I think he's one of five people in the
nation blowing custom glass for experiments.