Managers don't cut themselves
By Charlie Demerjian: Tuesday 18 July 2006, 08:00
WORD HAS COME down to us that the recent Intel job cuts were indeed
all managers.
This is without a doubt, a very good thing.
Leaked org charts show that there are exactly 17,491 layers of
bureaucracy between Paul and Zeke, the guy who runs the show and
the guy who talks to his shoes in the warehouse. Removing many of
them can't hurt much.
Word also has come in that the cuts are supposed to be targeted at
those who need to be cut for any particular position. That's a nice
concept, but the rub lies in the fact that many of the people who
are most in need of said chopping are managers themselves, and are
reluctant to cut themselves out of their own cushy seats. µ