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Alex Dobrenko • 1 card
There was a recession in '73 and Hewlett-Packard had to cut back 10 percent. Instead of laying off 10 percent of the people, they cut everyone's salary by 10 percent and gave us one day off every two weeks. So basically they said "nobody goes without a job." And I like that sort of thing.
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