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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: IBM CORPORATE LOSS
- Message-ID: <11849@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:01:46 GMT
- References: <C15nCD.F4@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.092554.26383@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
-
- > "IBM has so many employees worldwide that if they were all in one
- > place and that place was called a country then it would be the fifth
- > largest country in the world."
-
- > "IBM has so much money in the bank that the interest alone can pay
- > those peoples wages such that they could stop making computers
- > tomorrow and still keep everyone in a job if they had a mind to."
-
- China = 1000M
- India = 866M
- USA = 252M [CIS excluded - it's a collection of countries]
- Indonesia = 193M
- Brazil = 155M
-
- So, let's say IBM has at LEAST 156M employees. (though I've probably
- missed some other HUGE country somewhere, like Australia :-])
-
- Now let's pay them all the EXTREMELY pitiful wage of $1600 per year.
-
- Now, let's say we get 25% interest on IBM's cash in the bank. Tell me
- where I can do that well!!!
-
- So, IBM must have 4*156000000*1600 dollars. ie. ONE ENGLISH BILLION DOLLARS,
- just sitting in the bank.
-
- >I dunno how true these statements are but even if there is some truth in them
- >then I doubt that the financial loss will hurt them much.
-
- No truth whatsoever.
-
- >A friend of mine was told these 'facts' at his employee induction course with
- >a clone manufacturer.
-
- Tee hee, those clone manufacturers probably use the new 100000MHZ chip, too...
-
-
- Here's an equivalent argument:
- "I heard Atari has $10,000,000,000,000,000.
- Even if that is only 0.001% true, that's $100,000,000,000,
- and let's face it, 0.001% is very much!"
-
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