Motorola to layoff 3,000 employees, most of 'em in handset division
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 2nd 2008 7:20AM
posted Nov 2nd 2008 7:20AM
To be honest, we were surprised that we didn't hear this number along with the other doom and gloom professed during Motorola's Q3 earnings call, but the writing was very clearly on the wall. As part of the mentioned $800 million expenditure cut planned for 2009, 3,000 (more) of Moto's employees will be looking for work elsewhere. According to an unnamed spokeswoman, a "little over two-thirds of those layoffs [will be] in the handset division." And just think -- if Moto would only use all those hands to get an Android-powered phone out before "entirely too long from now," maybe these cuts wouldn't even be necessary. Maybe.
10 years ago, I would have cared. But how can you feel bad for a group, a division, or even a company that hasn't done anything in 10 years?
By the way, did you hear that they have this new, slim phone called the RAZR?
Yah guys, you can't release the same phone year after year after year that's just a slight variation of the last one. Look at HTC. They try to one up themselves every time they release a phone. You've been putting lipstick on the same old pig for years.
-Mc
Still sucks for the employees...
Bad decisions are made by management not the worker bees. I know first hand what it's like to held back by an old idiot over and over. You want to walk out the door but you have a family to take care of. If anything cut the pay of every manager 50% and see what happens.
it does suck for the employees, but motorola has been coming out with crap and WTF kind of phones. Every phone they have been putting out lately is a joke. I am not suprised that this is happening.
That's what ya get for suckin!
Go Nokia Go!