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Title: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 07, 2008, 03:13:55 PM: 1000 redundancies eeek: 10000 staff?? Bloody hell what did they need that many employees for? eeek:

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Online auction website eBay has said it is to lay off 1,000 employees, which is 10% of its workforce, as part of a move to streamline the business.

Many hundreds of temporary workers are also at risk of losing their jobs in the cutbacks.

As it announced the job cuts, eBay also said it had gone on the acquisition trail, buying online payments site Bill Me Later.

EBay also said it had bought two Danish classified advertising websites.

It is paying $390m for dba.dk and vehicles site bilbasen.dk.

EBay - which already owns online payment firm Paypal - has signed an agreement to buy Bill Me Later for $820m in cash and $125m in options.

"PayPal and Bill Me Later belong together," said eBay president and chief executive John Donahoe in a statement.

"We now have a powerful combination of the two leading, complementary online payment products, each with proven benefits for consumers and online merchants."
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Nick on October 07, 2008, 03:17:57 PM: That is weird.It should run itself with one sort of geek in his bedroom keeping an eye rubschin:
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 07, 2008, 03:20:31 PM: 1 person wouldnt be able to run the entire global system and keep it operational. I would have thought a staff of 50-100 people. But 10,000? Even with all their acquisitions such as skype I can't even begin to fathom why they had so many.
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Nick on October 07, 2008, 03:21:22 PM: Perhaps they were all eyes: and the MD had a roving eye
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Barman on October 07, 2008, 03:54:06 PM: Perhaps they won them in an auction like...?
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Nick on October 07, 2008, 03:54:31 PM: Perhaps you should lie down
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Bar Wench on October 08, 2008, 07:59:07 AM: My not buying stuff clearly has further reaching consequences than I though! eeek:
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 08, 2008, 08:33:43 AM: Quote from: Nick on October 07, 2008, 03:17:57 PM
That is weird.It should run itself with one sort of geek in his bedroom keeping an eye rubschin:

Jamie Theakston must read this site. He said the same on Heart Breakfast this morning.
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Nick on October 08, 2008, 08:59:54 AM: I may have to sue him (who is Jamie Theakston?)
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 08, 2008, 09:13:57 AM: FFS ::) (http://www.google.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Ebay job cuts
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 08, 2008, 10:02:09 AM: Quote from: Bar Wench on October 08, 2008, 07:59:07 AM
My not buying stuff clearly has further reaching consequences than I though! eeek:

Madame Tatterfly, the Ebay destroyer whistle: