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		<title>Comment on The WinkelVii by Facebore &#8211; The Facebook IPO Dissapointment &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2012/04/28/the-winkelvii/#comment-1062</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Facebore &#8211; The Facebook IPO Dissapointment &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] bet it still eats at the Winklevii though because as they say, if they could have created Facebook, they would have created Facebook. [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] bet it still eats at the Winklevii though because as they say, if they could have created Facebook, they would have created Facebook. [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Facebook Overnight Millionaires and Employee Turnover by Facebore &#8211; The Facebook IPO Dissapointment &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2012/05/17/facebook-overnight-millionaires-and-employee-turnover/#comment-1061</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Facebore &#8211; The Facebook IPO Dissapointment &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] Facebook Overnight Millionaires and Employee&#160;Turnover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on Caught in a Time Tunnel by Facebook Overnight Millionaires and Employee Turnover &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2006/09/01/caught-in-a-time-tunnel/#comment-1055</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Facebook Overnight Millionaires and Employee Turnover &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] comment as to whether I&#8217;d quit as I don&#8217;t know the culture, but I&#8217;ve worked for paranoid owners before and I know that it is a tough environment.  Zuckerberg has publicly stated that it&#8217;s good to [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] comment as to whether I&#8217;d quit as I don&#8217;t know the culture, but I&#8217;ve worked for paranoid owners before and I know that it is a tough environment.  Zuckerberg has publicly stated that it&#8217;s good to [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs by Nina</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2012/05/01/ibm-purging-the-old-guard-more-unofficial-layoffs/#comment-970</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple additiona.  Vacation and personal time are prorated.  IBM has not said what the formula is but a fair estimate would be 70% I think.  For most IBM&#039;ers, that can take advantage of this offer, that is 25 days vacation and 5 days personal time.  Using 70%, that would be 9 days additional work.  Also, just because you can&#039;t be &quot;RA&#039;d&quot; you can still be fired for &quot;performance&quot; reasons.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple additiona.  Vacation and personal time are prorated.  IBM has not said what the formula is but a fair estimate would be 70% I think.  For most IBM&#8217;ers, that can take advantage of this offer, that is 25 days vacation and 5 days personal time.  Using 70%, that would be 9 days additional work.  Also, just because you can&#8217;t be &#8220;RA&#8217;d&#8221; you can still be fired for &#8220;performance&#8221; reasons.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why IBM Layoffs Are Not Rebalancing by IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2012/02/28/why-ibm-layoffs-are-not-rebalancing/#comment-954</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] can logically deduct that there will be more people RA&#8217;d as predicted a while back here and here (as far back as February).  You can bet there is a slice of this population that will benefit from [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] can logically deduct that there will be more people RA&#8217;d as predicted a while back here and here (as far back as February).  You can bet there is a slice of this population that will benefit from [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Is Steve Mills Running IBM? by IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2012/04/19/is-steve-mills-runnng-ibm/#comment-953</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] end.  You can logically deduct that there will be more people RA&#8217;d as predicted a while back here and here (as far back as February).  You can bet there is a slice of this population that will [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] end.  You can logically deduct that there will be more people RA&#8217;d as predicted a while back here and here (as far back as February).  You can bet there is a slice of this population that will [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on IBM Bloggers, Who are we? &#8211; Bob Sutor by IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2005/11/17/ibm-bloggers-who-are-we-bob-sutor/#comment-952</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] I know a lot of folks who fit in this class. They are smarter and wiser than those who will be filling their shoes.  In some cases, they are some of the smartest people in IBMlike Rod, Jeff and maybe even Bob. [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] I know a lot of folks who fit in this class. They are smarter and wiser than those who will be filling their shoes.  In some cases, they are some of the smartest people in IBMlike Rod, Jeff and maybe even Bob. [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on IBM analyst relations, who are we? Jeff Jones by IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2005/09/26/ibm-analyst-relations-who-are-we-jeff-jones/#comment-951</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] will be filling their shoes.  In some cases, they are some of the smartest people in IBMlike Rod, Jeff and maybe even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on IBM Executives &#8211;  Who are we?  Rod Smith VP of Emerging Technology, SWG. by IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2006/06/03/ibm-executives-who-are-we-rod-smith-vp-of-emerging-technology-swg/#comment-950</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Purging The Old Guard, More Unofficial Layoffs &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] who will be filling their shoes.  In some cases, they are some of the smartest people in IBMlike Rod, Jeff and maybe even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on The Social Network, A Movie Review with Comparisons to Corporate Life by The WinkelVii &#171; Delusions of Adequacy</title>
		<link>http://johnsimonds.com/2010/10/28/the-social-network-comparisons-to-corporate-life/#comment-918</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The WinkelVii &#171; Delusions of Adequacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] The Social Network, because for the first time in their lives, they didn&#8217;t get what they felt they were entitled [...]]]></description>
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