Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 12/17/24 4:49 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 12/16/24 4:18 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:04:19 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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On 12/15/24 5:10 PM, D wrote:

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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:08:24 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
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My boss and I looked out and saw that there were no engineer jobs
available in town; LM Ericsson had just closed their US Internet
group and put 300 Internet engineers on the street. So he asked if I
would be willing to join him in a startup.

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A friend got caught in the Marconi to Ericcson transition. It was fun
while it lasted.
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Ahh Ericsson... the only company on the planet that makes the
government look and feel like a startup with hipsters!

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    Hey - Nordic - a different way of thinking. Don't be a bigot now  :-)

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Hey, Nordic Semiconductor does fine work -- but they're Norwegians, not
Swedes.

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 FYI ... Norway, Sweden, Finland and often Denmark are
 generically referred to as "The Nordics". There is
 enough shared culture & history to kinda make them a
 distinctive cultural group.

 Don't trust the danish! They are very tricky people. They invaded sweden once, and we're constantly watching them, in case they will try it again! As for the rest, they are good people, although the norwegian are the most lazy people on the planet.

   Hey, I'm 50% Dane ... probably more since they did so
   much ravishing in England.
   Norway, well, not much to DO there ... hard to get
   very motivated. Just watch the tide come in and out
   in the fiords ...  :-)
   Now, are you interested in a slightly used fishing
   trawler ... excellent condition I promise ......

 As for the BUSINESS SENSIBILITY of Ericsson, well ...

 

   Oh, listening to the Bloomberg financial channel today,
   Denmark has RUN OUT OF LABOR. Orders for products have
   had to be delayed/cut. It's kinda at an economic peak
   unless they outsource or, horrors, import hordes of
   barbarians. Most of the 1st-world is like this now ...
   success spawned the idea that you don't NEED to make
   ten kiddies - so now many make NONE. Extinctions can
   take many forms.
   And Novo Nordisk is like 60% of the economy ... one
   little glitch there and .......