http://marketrealist.com/2017/08/how-does-western-digital-view-fiscal-1q18/

Massive layoffs today of the people who are experienced and manage the jobs. No warnings, just phone calls to employees. Seems to be the more experienced, technical manager level.

It's coming and you can feel it - it was good while it lasted but things are so bad that a 20% job cut across the board would not be sufficient to fix things. The morale is at an all time low levels, people are leaving (if they can) or looking for a... —  read more 

Will Ed have to sell the monster truck and start driving a rice burner? Stay tuned.

The "Unlimited Vacation Policy" is the latest dirty trick that Corporate America has come up with. The advantage of the "Unlimited Vacation Policy" for the corporation is: 1- Erases the financial liability in their books for "unused vacations". 2-... —  read more 

Anything new in San Jose? I hear rumors about WD in Irvine and cuts over there but how is HGST doing?