Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

This is disturbingly ominous

What's up with today's email? Extremely concerning to say the least


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Post ID: @OP+1kh9jkx7r

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Mine said:
“Daddy, I earned it!”

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Post ID: @wh+1kh9jkx7r

It's a clever troll.

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Post ID: @pj+1kh9jkx7r

I think it is just an troll -- credible and effective, because people have a sense of impending doom.

That sense is probably misplaced. Until there is some disrupting event, most customers will continue renewing their SAS licenses.

To compensate for those who don't, SAS will continue laying off 2-3% annually. That's not impending doom, but death by a thousand cuts.

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Post ID: @pd+1kh9jkx7r

@ht So what, in general, was this allegedly ominous email about?

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Post ID: @mn+1kh9jkx7r

I got the email.

The televangelist child’s college sports team lost in a landslide. Ominous indeed!

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Post ID: @hv+1kh9jkx7r

The email was about limited seating in cafeteria C.

Not what mine said. Anyone else?

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Post ID: @ht+1kh9jkx7r

@fz

Ahhh, Company Man, I did truly miss you! Where else could we find such rugged individualism, seemingly without obligation to others?

It reminds me of those old “Marlboro Country” ads, with the cowboy driving cattle, free on the range.

Do you smoke Marlboros and ride a horse?

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Post ID: @hp+1kh9jkx7r

@fz Choice, it was. I had family obligations, so I chose to stay.



Regarding clowns and jokers: I say what I saw.

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Post ID: @g1+1kh9jkx7r

@fr Not stuck. Choice

And the funny thing about jokers and clowns is that everyone thinks it is other people. The real jokers and clowns like to point at others and never think it is themselves.

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Post ID: @fz+1kh9jkx7r

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am, stuck in the middle at SAS

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Post ID: @fr+1kh9jkx7r

The periodic Secret Squirrel convention?

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Post ID: @f9+1kh9jkx7r

The email was about limited seating in cafeteria C. ;-)

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Post ID: @e5+1kh9jkx7r

No matter how bad the ominous email is, JMP and the Art Department will remain unscathed.

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Post ID: @dw+1kh9jkx7r

@dg What are you even on about Company Man? This post had all the context needed. It was crystal clear.

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Post ID: @dr+1kh9jkx7r

@b0 It worked. Here one of me is responding, I can’t resist a post with absolutely no context other than badness. Or a post where people make sh-t up to make things sound worse than it is.

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Post ID: @dg+1kh9jkx7r

@OP

It’s okay to say “Company Man, we miss you! (Let’s gin up a new discussion)”

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Post ID: @b0+1kh9jkx7r

I reported my copy as phishing so it's been deleted. If you still have yours, can you post it? I'll tell you if it's the same one I got.

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Post ID: @at+1kh9jkx7r

@OP So disturbing. I can’t believe Costco is having such a big sale on dishwasher detergent. Insane. How are they even making money on that?

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Post ID: @ar+1kh9jkx7r

What email are you referring to?

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