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Hewlett-Packard's profits grew 14 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter, boosted by corporate cost-cutting and solid performance by its enormous services unit. The vendor's successes helped offset major losses in revenue in just about everything that's not services, including consumer PCs; enterprise storage and servers; …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Dead Vulture

    It wont last

    ex-EDS staff have had enough of HPs treatment. Unless Mark Hurd starts treating us with respect and honours 'pay for performance' I forecast that 2010 will be blighted by strikes.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    As an ex-HP employee

    RE: 'It wont last'

    Don't hold your breath for any extra payouts we were promised a 5% end of year bonus to subsidise the deficit in our pensions when we were tupee'd across. We had 0.5% and were told to lump it.

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  3. Rodrigo 1
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    Flat base pay

    for the February FPR there will be no base pay increases, as per Hurd's mail.

    -borged HP Services serf

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    HP Pensions

    .. should now also come with the 'You may not get out what you pay in' warning as per the usual 'over 50's plan' adverts.

    No base pay increases, but some bonus's... I wonder how much MH will be getting this year in total.. 10, 20 , 30 mill ?

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