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(...) Wow for me, too! 75%!! Good lord! I must confess I've not been following this development because frankly, I'm more interested in building. I guess what bothers me most is that Lego, like Pixar and many other companies and/or entities which (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | The End of Lego (was: Massive Layoffs At Lego (in Enfield, CT))
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(...) Read the news today, oh boy (sorry for such an obvious quote, I could'nt resist). Why is anyone suprised by this? Lego has stated for the last 2 years that this was going to happen. Here's the thing: I dont think this is the worse news you are (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Massive Layoffs At Lego (in Enfield, CT)
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After nine years of working for an international company, I am still amazed that the "modern" answer to unfavorable business results is practically always job cuts. They don't seem to teach anything else in management classes anymore (did they (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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I'm concerned about all the friends we have in Enfield - I hope they still have jobs with our favorite company... JohnG, GMLTC (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's a big hit for Enfield, a town that enjoyed its close relationship with TLC. Enfield lost molding in 2000 and now is losing packaging. Soon there will be just two buildings left. I grew up in CT, about 13 miles north of "Erector Square" (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Massive Layoffs At Lego (in Enfield, CT)
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After I picked my jaw up off the floor, all I can say is WOW. Not quite what I expected. And it's making me rethink our 'LEGO only store/warehouse' since I can not see how this can do anything but make things even crazier. (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Massive Layoffs At Lego (in Enfield, CT)
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(URL) follows: Danish-based toy maker Lego Systems Inc. plans to lay off more than 44 percent of its Enfield work force by early next year, and will close its Enfield packaging operation, subcontracting all warehousing, packaging, and distribution (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general) !!
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Well since you ask about it, Kyle: After repairing the mail2news gateway yesterday, we realized that news-authentication failed to work correctly, and in the small timeslot until we shut down mail2news again, a bunch of spam went through. mail2news (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jun-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) a lot of spam in the forums. Kyle (18 years ago, 18-Jun-06, to lugnet.general)
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