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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: ** Survey for HP People Declared "Excess" **
Message-ID: <157@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:09:11 GMT
References: <152@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151
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This note is an apology to the people of HP and related about my recent
survey of "HP people declared 'excess'".  I have discussed the matter
with HP Corporate Public Relations and am chagrined to admit that there
are some significant factual errors in the original posting.

A brief explanation is that many of my friends at HP have either left or
are looking for new positions due to the "excess" policy, so I kind of let 
my emotions run away with me a bit.  By no means is HP going through what 
I described as "dark times" -- in fact HP is faring quite well in what is 
currently a fairly soft computer market.

I shall shortly be receiving further information from HP PR about the
actual policy and at that point shall post a more informative response
about what's going on.  If you would rather not read about it here in
this forum, but are interested, drop me a note to ensure I email you a
copy; I might well decide not to further clutter this group with more
inappropriate postings.

	*sigh* as if the earthquake wasn't enough... 

			Again, apologies for the original article.

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor