  Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1394 Registered: 04-2006 |
Compuware is consolidating operations at Cambridge, Sydney and Dublin at headquarters in Downtown Detroit. Good news for Detroit. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070829 /compuware_consolidation.html? .v=1 | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1972 Registered: 06-2006 |
hmmm...I'm not sure how you get that interpretation from that article...to me it doesn't sound like are moving any jobs to Detroit...it sounds like they are eliminating 100 jobs in Massachusetts, Australia and Ireland simply throwing the work those people used to do on the desks of their existing workers in Detroit | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1395 Registered: 04-2006 |
Their loss is our gain. Presently, their HQ staff is cut back severely. I can't see how they can keep those lines going without bringing folks who currently work on them over for continuity. I've been a shareholder in the company for about 8 years now. Its been a long bumpy ride. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2114 Registered: 10-2003 |
Either way, it is good news for Detroit. Moving development to Detroit from other areas may likely lead to the need for new hirings here. It may also increase demand in the Detroit area for certain vendors Compuware may need to support those operations. Also, Compuware has been doing a little better lately, and has been buying up some shares of its own stock. | ||
Sturge Member Username: Sturge Post Number: 75 Registered: 05-2007 |
There are a handful of transfers that are coming from Houston. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6418 Registered: 02-2004 |
YAY OCP COMPUWARE! Delta City here we come. Time to make some Robocops. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1973 Registered: 06-2006 |
"Their loss is our gain. Presently, their HQ staff is cut back severely. I can't see how they can keep those lines going without bringing folks who currently work on them over for continuity." Except the article says they are doing exactly that. The whole point of this is to cut costs by consolidating their operations and cutting jobs... Even if they decide they'll need to keep 5 or 10 of the 100 jobs they plan to eliminate, big deal...Salad Creations probably hired more people than that... I don't mean to sound like a pessimist here...but it is what it is...I was excited when I saw you thread title but rather disappointed when I read the article... | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1180 Registered: 11-2003 |
Better than consolidating 100 Detroit jobs to be handled by the Houston office. | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 2057 Registered: 12-2003 |
More shedding of talent. Especially in the Northeast. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1396 Registered: 04-2006 |
DetroitPlanner = Optimist, the glass... its half full! TheJesus = Pessimist, No! Its half empty! | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1974 Registered: 06-2006 |
^Actually, Thejesus = Realist You act like I'm trying to take some precious jobs away from Detroit or something when all I'm doing is recognizing that these plans don't call for the hiring of more workers in Detroit, nor do they call for the relocation of any workers here...in fact, all the article says is that they are getting rid of 100 jobs | ||
Queensfinest Member Username: Queensfinest Post Number: 127 Registered: 08-2006 |
So... a company that never lived up to expectations (to put it lightly) and that will probably go under fairly soon lays off workers somewhere else instead of in Detroit, due to the fact that the owner has some weird fetish with the town that he grew up in, and this is the best news today in Detroit? | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1981 Registered: 06-2006 |
"and that will probably go under fairly soon" what in the world makes you predict that they will go under? The company might not be the healthiest it's ever been right now, but it's far from going under | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1185 Registered: 11-2003 |
Is Queen another rejected Compuware Y2K worker? Sounds like it. Guess we now know that asking her thinly veiled anti-Detroit question was really trolling. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2156 Registered: 10-2003 |
 The big picture doesn't look too bad. |
