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When something breaks, they just put more people to rush it throught.  What&#8217;s the use of the CEO peaching the ideals from &#8220;Good to Great&#8221;, if everyone underneath is doing otherwise?  Sigh&#8230; Now I have to work O.T. this sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In macrosopic level, after the forth round laid off last week and mass exodus followed by the end of ESPP period, the company is in totall disarray. There are many projects seriously under resources and they have to cancell other projects in order to staff them. 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