Thread regarding HP (Hewlett-Packard) layoffs

There were far better employees laid off before me, far worse laid off after, both good and bad remain but the calculus of that logic seems to be simple math, (we need this much money, RIF till we hit that number). They produce fewer and fewer products, so their income model is based upon acquiring company's for their contracts and discarding the costs that come along with those contracts, the people. If they can't dump those that come directly with the newly acquired company due to corporate memory needs, they have to cut somewhere, typically from the last acquired company hoping that knowledge has been absorbed. This cycle runs in 4, 8 and 12 to 15 year cycles, so if your company was absorbed and you remained, every new company acquired, ticks the clock closer to your previous company's turn on the bleeding edge of the RIF engine. They cycle through each previously acquired entity, as needed. The RIF engine at HP, as with most large IT firms, runs non-stop, what most don't realize is HP tends to jump on the latest IT fad about 2 years behind everyone else. So with IBM and other mega IT corps riffing 4 to 1 heads offshore, you can expect that trend to dawn upon HP around mid to late 2016, but only after they've cut til they cause SLA impact stateside. If you're a stateside HP employee, and can stick it out for a year or two more, you may have a front row seat for the offshore bloodletting that's about to take place.