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Charlemagne

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12. Exactly

Reply to abelenkpe (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:16 PM

Dec 2011

They do this crap all the time. They reduce overhead by firing people and making the remaining staff do twice the work. The staff will do it out of fear that they will be next and there are 25 unemployed people waiting to take their jobs. The CEOs, of course, are awarded huge bonuses for doing this.

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