Word on the street is that they might shut down the Burlington Canada center. Broomfield, CO engineers (the USA call center) have been asked to work extra hours for the next few weeks and mgmt has announced that engineers from other groups will be onsite in CO starting today to assist with inbound volume backlog reduction.
Pure speculation, but hard not to think something huge is going down.
Yeah, you guys are f---ed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2016/01/20/emc-stock-suggests-vmware-tracking-stock-worthless/79059784/
The day before you get the ax from VMware you'll get an email at 4pm setting up an unexpected meeting the next morning with your director. Don't panic, there's nothing you can do to avoid it. Stay late and clean out your files and tidy your computer. Take extra supplies home and toss the office expresso machine portafilter (the handle) into the garbage.
So that's why the stock went up today