Sony Slashes 10,000 Jobs 92
redletterdave writes "Sony will cut about 10,000 jobs, which equates to about six percent of its global workforce, by the end of the year. The move comes after the Tokyo-based electronics firm more than doubled its loss forecast on April 5 to $2.9 billion, and the recent hiring of a new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, on April 1. Hirai looks to downsize Sony and pivot the company in a new direction to get out of the red for the first time in four years. The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division, cutting about 3,000 workers in the process, and also make cuts within its small and midsize LCD operations. Sony did not say if it would cut these jobs in Japan, abroad, or both."
I'm hoping... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Electronics and music hugely profitable (Score:5, Insightful)
LCD manufacturing and chemicals used in batteries very much are news for nerds.
Question for Sony (Score:4, Insightful)
How is your war on users going? Is that working out for you the way you expected? Perhaps, just perhaps, your customers are not your enemies? Think about this please, you could be such a great company if not for a small handful of policies.
Re:sony rootkit - is 7 years enough? (Score:5, Insightful)
I say we don't move on until at least one Sony exec serves serious prison time for using their music CDs as a vector to install a virus onto users PCs.
An ordinary hacker would have served time, but because Sony is a super-criminal with countless victims they remain free. Not acceptable.
Re:sony rootkit - is 7 years enough? (Score:5, Insightful)
It was despicable but it was just one division (a joint venture at that) and it was 7 years ago so I think it is time to move on.
I'm not going to "move on" when they still have the same exact attitude: harm your customers (with DRM) to stop the big evil pirates. I'm tired of collective punishment. One recent and obvious example of this mentality is the removal of OtherOS (some people like to justify it by saying that harming only a few of your customers somehow makes it okay). Another is the planned DRM for PS4.
No, they haven't changed. At all. They had no reason to.
Re:Yuk it up, kids... (Score:5, Insightful)
Geeks are the most selfish and entitled people on the planet.
You've obviously never met a politician, or executive type.