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Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

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Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#101

Post by expertentipp »

sofixa wrote: post #95
expertentipp wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asking in Europe anything higher than 60% of what levels.fyi claims for any publicly traded company guarantees not receiving an offer. Funny because our public services and healthcare are the same dysfunctional as in US, only in different ways.

> Funny because our public services and healthcare are the same dysfunctional as in US, only in different ways. The same, or different? There's various levels of dysfunction depending on the country, but outcomes are better and there is zero risk of life crippling debt. Anyone not a multi-millionaire who could afford the best private care would take that deal any day of the week.

Waiting times in months in context of cancer, pregnancy, and other critical health issues. Distributing the public services through nepotist barter, even basic services like a stupid consultation. Doesn't matter if one dies with or without some debt on top of it.

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#102

Post by sofixa »

expertentipp wrote: post #101
sofixa wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Funny because our public services and healthcare are the same dysfunctional as in US, only in different ways. The same, or different? There's various levels of dysfunction depending on the country, but outcomes are better and there is zero risk of life crippling debt. Anyone not a multi-millionaire who could afford the best private care would take that deal any day of the week.

Waiting times in months in context of cancer, pregnancy, and other critical health issues. Distributing the public services through nepotist barter, even basic services like a stupid consultation. Doesn't matter if one dies with or without some debt on top of it.

Source?

Waiting times in months for pregnancy makes little sense since:

* many pregnancy related things have specific timelines that should be followed

* pretty much all European countries have negative natural growth, meaning that there are fewer and fewer babies being born. It's highly unlikely related specialists are being overburdened.

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#103

Post by expertentipp »

sofixa wrote: post #102
expertentipp wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waiting times in months in context of cancer, pregnancy, and other critical health issues. Distributing the public services through nepotist barter, even basic services like a stupid consultation. Doesn't matter if one dies with or without some debt on top of it.

Source? Waiting times in months for pregnancy makes little sense since: * many pregnancy related things have specific timelines that should be followed * pretty much all European countries have negative natural growth, meaning that there are fewer and fewer babies being born. It's highly unlikely related specialists are being overburdened.

Ain't got no time for discussing the obvious. Low fertility rates are a result, not like anyone is doing anything reasonable to address it. Doctors? Why bother when they can charge EUR 2k for "birth experience" in private clinic. Politicians? At this stage they only care about the real estate they hoarded.

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#104

Post by expertentipp »

kioleanu wrote: post #83
quickthrower2 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they hire 20000 contractors at crazy rates?

No, they’re famous for pushing for cutting costs from unnecessary resources, like good employees most of the times they’re hired. One example from my anecdotes is when they did consulting work for a telecom in my home country and pushed for firing half the technicians who were working in pairs. One of the reasons they were working in pairs was safety, like one holding the ladder and they used this as an argument and…

> One of the reasons they were working in pairs was safety, like one holding the ladder and they used this as an argument and said they can just be replaced by a safer ladder. Said and done.

One consultant must had an orgasmic enlightenment while creating that powerpoint slide. Wonder what they are up to now.

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#106

Post by FirmwareBurner »

thelastgallon wrote: post #105

Earlier this year, Nokia changes iconic logo to signal strategy shift: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2023/02/26/nokia-c...

Obligatory whenever a company changes logo for a "strategy shift": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KbRA2RjhgQ

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#107

Post by pimlottc »

thelastgallon wrote: post #105

Earlier this year, Nokia changes iconic logo to signal strategy shift: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2023/02/26/nokia-c...

Previous logo(s) for those who don’t remember offhand:

https://www.purppledesigns.com/history-and-evolution-of-logo...

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#108

Post by ulfw »

pimlottc wrote: post #107
thelastgallon wrote: post #105

Earlier this year, Nokia changes iconic logo to signal strategy shift: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2023/02/26/nokia-c...

Previous logo(s) for those who don’t remember offhand: https://www.purppledesigns.com/history-and-evolution-of-logo...

Should have stuck with the fish head one

Re: Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs

#110

Post by ulfw »

ackbar03 wrote: post #69
quickthrower2 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just need a team of 6 and scale up using AWS, right?

And Aws is operated by a team of 6 who scale up using azure

And Azure is operated by a team of 6 who scale up using Google...

ah wait...

no one scales up using Google Cloud. Can never be sure it's still around the next day. Never mind.

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