Posts Tagged ‘rumors’
The coming days
This week will prove to be decisive with respect to the current situation Nortel is in. The rumors floating around suggest that there will be a substantial series of job cuts, beginning in February, now that management has no obligation to contractually-promised severances.
This is supported by evidence in the Ernst & Young Monitor reports, which show a reduction in payroll going into February, and curiously a switch from a biweekly to weekly schedule. Clearly, we cannot rely on management to give us the truth anymore, and are left up to our own devices in order to speculate on the outcome.
There are those who will say this speculation is useless and even counter to productivity. But to them I say this: Since when is the pursuit of knowledge, and indeed truth, a bad thing? This sort of dismissal of the facts is counter to what our society stands for – a freedom of expression, and above all, freedom of thought. Since we cannot rely on those in power to dispense the facts, we are left to our own devices.
Indeed, speculation has often been proven to be reality, even when it was vehemently denied by upper management. I invite you all to analyze the situation and arrive at your own conclusions, instead of trusting what you are fed. (This includes the very source you are reading from currently!)
