Comments on: Restructuring at Tucows

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:05:49 +0000

I’m one of those “who have left”, and I can assure Tom and Max that I’m fine with being described that way (I suspect that legally “laid off” would be incorrect), that I would be extremely surprised to see any offshoring, and that Elliot is absolutely sincere about “our thoughts”.

By: Max Ibez

Max Ibez — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:57:40 +0000

In my experience, “restructuring” an IT company often means offshoring work to
code slaves and programming sweatshops in India (Bangalore, Pune, etc.)

The only real economic concern is for the shareholders pockets as they will never be satisfied with what they have and will always demand more – and of course the CEO will deliver by cutting jobs and the expensive salaries that go with them, replacing them with cut-rate bargain-basement salaries.

And when they say “our thoughts are with those who left” it’s like a sick joke

By: enoss

enoss — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:11:00 +0000

@don, we are filing an 8k a little later today. if you have any more specific questions feel free to email ir@tucows.com,

@tom, yes. that is what we meant.

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:26:47 +0000

Sad. Blood Tuesday version 2.0. Must be the fault of the economy, surely not the almighty Elliot’s!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:16:27 +0000

“people who left us”
“people who have left”

Don’t you mean “people we have laid off”?

By: Don Kirche

Don Kirche — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:24:39 +0000

Hello Elliot,

Can you give us the details of how TUCOWS will “restructure our business”?

Thanks much,

DonK