Surely the title should be:
"Error: Print job 'Money' failed for laserjet001.lan.hp.com - licence expired"?
HP Inc says it will move forward with its plans to cut costs and refocus its business as it posted better than expected quarterly numbers. For the three months to July 31, Q3 of its 2016 fiscal year, the printers and PCs half of the HP split reported: Revenues of $11.9bn were down four per cent on the year-ago total of $12. …
"HP says it is on track with its plan** to lay off 3,000 workers by the end of the year in an effort to reduce its overhead costs."
** From that article, "HP, which employed 302,000 people in mid-2015, is just emerging from its previous round of redundancies in which it binned roughly 58,000 workers."
I don't have access to the detailed Q&A that happens at their results but do Manglement ever get taken to task on how they can make a fifth of the workforce redundant? Either Manglement neglected their responsibilities to run the business efficiently and the business was egregiously overstaffed (i.e. burning money with no real RoI) or they're expecting the unfortunates left behind to pick up the slack for no more pay with the consequences of the resulting overwork causing more costs than it saves.
Icon -> Yes I already know the answer but it's frustrating all the same.
burning money with no real RoI
Unfortunately, when the money is rolling in, it seems the tendency of management is to concentrate their efforts on schemes to piss it away it on poorly-considered acquisitions and glitzy new HQ buildings. It's only when the money stops rolling in that they notice the lack of RoI - and then usually only when the stockholders start getting shirty.
It's much more Wall Street to be hatching deals in wine bars than trying to understand what contribution the Bulgarian plastic widget unit is making to the business.
There's plenty of documentatry evidence to demonstrate that business performance could be improved by replacing the boards of most big companies with pot plants. The fact that HP isn't headed up by a Petunia simply shows their hostility to evidence-based management.