Comments on: Layoffs at RIM? Great, Fresh Blood is Good http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Good Luck You Deserve Better http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-519582 Good Luck You Deserve Better Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:59:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-519582 Sorry to hear that and hope you find something better soon.  You were cheap to fire. You were fired. There is not a lot more to say. 

]]> By: Me http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-519506 Me Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:49:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-519506 I was just LAYED OFF by rim after starting only several weeks ago.  “cycle out some underperforming fodder” => I committed more code than most of my colleagues.  I actively pursued and developed new features in the short time I was there.  I was even working in my spare time to develop marketable features on the playbook.  They blew a lot of money on getting me started, and quite frankly there was NO attempt by upper management to even understand in the slightest bit what I was doing there.

This decision comes from some MORON in upper-management who has no idea how his fucking product is made.  Rim seems to be keep around the same morons who threw the company into a downward spiral in the first place.  Their code is shit, blackberry is running on 5-10 year old technology, and 5-10 year old api’s.  Nobody will develop for it.  I’d be happy if this company fell now, they deserve to die with that kind of negligence.

]]> By: Hardened http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518877 Hardened Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518877 Agreed!
There is already another executive leaving ship. NOT a good sign; that makes 2 in 3mths … oh and the CEOs saying they’ve never been more committed to RIM. They should’ve been all along. Philantrophy is great in science but they NEED to put back the investment in RIM; share/stock purchase plan ending July 10th this year … seems more a protection plan.

]]> By: Hardened http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518878 Hardened Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518878 Agreed!
There is already another executive leaving ship. NOT a good sign; that makes 2 in 3mths … oh and the CEOs saying they’ve never been more committed to RIM. They should’ve been all along. Philantrophy is great in science but they NEED to put back the investment in RIM; share/stock purchase plan ending July 10th this year … seems more a protection plan.

]]> By: Phil http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518855 Phil Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518855 More about layoffs:

“The company also announced a “headcount reduction” to keep costs in line.”

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/06/16/rim-implodes-announces-layoffs-500000-playbooks-shipped/

]]> By: John http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518854 John Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:47:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518854 See the linked article. RIM is talking redundancies.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518852 Anonymous Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:39:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518852 Agreed. This article title makes no sense. 

]]> By: Lucas Atkins http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/06/17/layoffs-at-rim-great-fresh-blood-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-518851 Lucas Atkins Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:25:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=25725#comment-518851 They have a hiring freeze…how will there be new fresh blood?

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