Sun
Jun 29 2008
07:04 am
Siemens cutting 17,000 jobs?
By: bizgrrl

Not all of these jobs will be in Germany, where Siemens is based. The company has over 400,000 employees world-wide.

"We will try and make this as socially acceptable as possible," Loescher told the daily Die Welt.

Ouch. When large companie feel the pain, it reverberates around the globe.

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Pam Strickland's picture

Don't they have an operation

Submitted by Pam Strickland on Sun, 2008/06/29 - 2:27pm.

Don't they have an operation here in K'ville?

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Michael's picture

Yep. I have a

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 2008/06/29 - 3:54pm.

Yep. I have a brother-in-law who works as a design engineer there.
~m.

R. Neal's picture

We know someone who works in

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 2008/06/29 - 5:59pm.

We know someone who works in medical imagaging, but their home office is somewhere else and they telecommute and travel around. This person has been worried for a while...

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If I'm not mistaken, the

Submitted by Pam Strickland on Sun, 2008/06/29 - 7:10pm.

If I'm not mistaken, the significant others of a couple of my writer friends work there. The sig others are both Europeans. I've never really thought to get specific info b/c it's not important to our social relationships, but I hope that they and most, if not all, others here are ok.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

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