I wish you the best of luck, Sharla.
Brian, don't be too bitter. I understand your position, but I really don't think that the bulk of downsizing and reorgs are due to corporate greed, or pillage and plunder by the CEO's.
If the truth be known for most companies, government regulation and outrageous taxation rule many of the coporate decisions being made latley. And one of the other big problems is health care costs. They are skyrocketing.
If health care keeps rising, an employer must do something, as the rising costs indeed effect the bottom line. Do they keep all the employees and cut their benifits? Or do they keep benifits the same and cut manpower.
Many companies have delt with it initially by restructuring benifits and putting some of the healt care cost burden back on the employee. But that will only work so far. If costs continue to increase, you can't simply keep cutting benifits on the total workforce because pretty soon your workforce will downsize itself. Lots of people are there for the benifits to begin with. You cut that and they will be gone.
So, what do they do? They reduce the workforce and allow those left the benifits.
Torte reform, government regulation/taxation, and health care costs have to be addressed in this country, or we are going to see more of this.
A good CEO knows its the workforce that makes the dough.
Only a CEO who's company is a failure, and going down, would plunder whats left.
I honestly don't think Enron is a model for ANY company, nor do any good business plans really subscribe to such actions.