11-19-2008
sometime I think the cost cutting is more playing with the books, you look at the current financial meltdown and you hear of all the layoffs coming, citigroup planning to 75000 worldwide sounds frightening. But actually if you think about it, sometimes it's all nonsense, banks and most major corporations need manpower, they need IT services, HR services, accountants, if they cut everybody then how are they going to operate their businesses?
What they usually do is immediately after they layoff they start hiring sometimes even the same people, somebody once told me in the world of accounting permanent employees are considered overheads, but contract staff are considered expenses so the big CEO at the top says cut 75000 employees but they hire back maybe 65,000 as contractors so on the books at the end of the year they can show to their major shareholders ... " hey look our overheads reduced dramatically .. but our expenses have increased considerably... we've achieved our objective, give ourselves a pat on our backs to justify that big fat bonus ... blah blah blah ..."
it's all about paper play and how they cook their books to make things look good -- crap
Last edited by sparcguy; 11-20-2008 at 12:04 AM..
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webservice::cia::source
WebService::CIA::Source(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation WebService::CIA::Source(3pm)
NAME
WebService::CIA::Source - A base class for WebService::CIA sources
SYNOPSIS
use WebService::CIA::Source;
my $source = WebService::CIA::Source->new();
DESCRIPTION
WebService::CIA::Source is a base class for WebService::CIA sources, such as WebService::CIA::Source::DBM and WebService::CIA::Source::Web.
It could be used as a source in its own right, but it won't get you very far.
METHODS
"new()"
This method creates a new WebService::CIA::Source object. It takes no arguments.
"value($country_code, $field)"
Retrieve a value. Always returns "undef".
"all($country_code)"
Retrieve all fields and values. Always returns an empty hashref.
AUTHOR
Ian Malpass (ian-cpan@indecorous.com)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003-2007, Ian Malpass
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The CIA World Factbook's copyright information page (<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copy-
right.html>) states:
The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied
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SEE ALSO
WebService::CIA, WebService::CIA::Parser, WebService::CIA::Source::DBM, WebService::CIA::Source::Web
perl v5.8.8 2008-02-04 WebService::CIA::Source(3pm)