6,000 RIM jobs on the line

Whyyyyy :'(

Sad news. Can't say more; we're talking about people here. I wish them luck.

heh, heh, you said rim job......

When will the bleeding stop?! I sure hope Rim has a trick up the sleeve. Selling curves to India will not hold them over until bb10.

Sad situation if that is true... and where is the sexual reference??? LOL Sorry couldn't help it

Yet another example why changing the name of the company to BlackBerry makes sense. Make the corporate parent BlackBerry Holdings Inc.

I KNOW they know the secondary meaning, but they went with the headline anyways. Walk all over them while they are down... go ahead.

Scum media.

That is actually sad!!!

If this is what it takes to keep Research in Motion lean and efficient to get BB10 out and beyond, then so be it. In BlackBerry we trust.

There was another one which said "Rim Shot?" - but this headline is comedy gold.

Don't worry RIM people... Crackberry's so-called analyst Chris Umiastowski says the company will do well and $RIMM stock is a buy (with other peoples hard earned money, of course!)

#MISLEADINGBERRY

Is this at all confirmed by RIM or just the media running off at the mouth again?!?

Nice wording for sure. I snicker then feel really bad :(

Why is crackberry continueing with the hysertia that is being created by the moronic media? Is crackberry lossing people and needs to shock folks so they buy more? After reading all that positive hype from the recent dev event and then seeing this post, I just have to ask why?

Crackberry making fun of unemployment?

#TASTELESS

This is what happens when you take ages to put new product on the market.

How many of those 6000 are java developers for applications that aren't being converted to OS10?

The worst part is that the people losing the jobs arent the story here... the RIM JOB headline is...

No surprise that RIM is cutting jobs. They need to slim down enough to still turn out new products but not big overlay big like they are supporting the pot bellies of some of their staff. Eventually when they are big again they'll start hiring people back again.

This is terrible, plain and simple, jobs are people lives.

George Takei is awesome! I'm torn here. Terrible news, hilarious headline.

WOW! If they fail to deliver BB10 I hate saying this...but they are DONE! They MUST deliver BB10 on time and it needs to be as great as they say it's going to be....this is their last kick at the can.

I have been a Blackberry user for many, many years and have stuck with them. I pre-ordered the Playbook and paid $499 for 16gb. I get their new devices when they come out. I have the Blackberry Stereo gateway etc....

Apple and Android have done a fantastic job with their ability to keep everything up to date. Even with the ability to have Android apps on the Playbook it is still lacking in apps. I have an Android Tablet, the iPad2 and the Playbook. The Playbook is an awesome piece of hardware but because of the lack of essential apps it hasnt had the success it should have had until they dropped price.

I hope RIM can bounce back ....I have faith.....but it is starting to waiver.

RIM can only be lucky if it 6000 jobs. As there has been speculation over the last few weeks, most noticeably coming from Reuters, that the layoffs could range from 40 - 50% of RIM's global worldwide workforce. Here's hoping that it doesn't come to that type of levels and that it is ONLY 6000 employees.

I found a Verizon Droid ad at the bottom of this page on my 9930. Does RIM understand how all this bad news makes me/we feel? I can't wait forever for BB10 and hold my breath at the same time...

R.I.P. R.I.M.

Sad news, but RIM has no option but to make the workforce slim until BB100 sees the light, whether or not BB10 makes a splash. Cutting 6K at this time is better than cutting 2K in 3 straight years. Best wish all those laid off, but RIM has no option these days, regarding layoffs... That's sad.

Hey they got to do what they got to do. Sorry that so many people are effected by this action but it is all good. When Ford was going through it they effected alot of people but they bounced back up. Dont be gloomed everything happens for a reason.

Peace Love Health and Strength!!!!

I don't understand why this comes as such a shock to so many. They're in the process of completely changing their underlying OS, why would they need to keep more than half of their employees when they are all supporting the Java platform. You don't need 15,000 people supporting a legacy OS that isn't having any more significant development on it after this year. QNX has the engineers they need, Torch has the web team, and the dev platform folks are there, why would RIM need to keep so many Java people? This really shouldn't be a surprise, it was only a matter of time until they started phasing out their Java employees.

Does it suck - absolutely, was it expected - absolutely.

Ha that's sucks...wonder if moral is still high at RIM.

RIM should just exit the stock market, and make themselves a private company. Then we can have Lazaridis be the CEO, and they can make BBs for people who want them. there won'tbe any accountability with the stupid markets, and even if they don't make much money who cares as long as there are customers. Why does it have to be BB10 vs. Apple and Google and everyone? The media and analysts are portraying it as though RIM needs to defeat iOS, Windows and Android in order to survive. That's totally unrealistic, impossible and insanely unfair.

I feel bad for the ones that are going to be cut. But honestly, lets face reality here, there is no such thing as JOB SECURITY. It's been said before, it's necessary evil to do cuts or lay offs when a company is restructuring. it's normal but RIM is just in the limelight when it comes to bad news.

This has been on the kitchener news and in the kitchener-waterloo record for days with this specific number. Should I start sending in pictures of the daily newspaper in town to make the breaking news????

The RIMPIRE strikes out!

I wonder if the 6000 jobs are full time or co-op students?

I know RIM hires A LOT of students.

Never a good thing when a company lets that many employees go

Quite honestly I doubt its that high, most estimates are in the 2000-3000 range.

Small compared with HP but still painful for those affected.

Sad but when the company has lost 90% of it's market value since '08 what u going do. Best that can be hoped for now is some big company taking over RIM. If not the BB's days are numbered.

Very unfortunate indeed. Out of curiosity, how does their recent hiring blitz reflect upon this. Were some people hired just to now be let go? Or is the hiring is meant to fill in for some of the layoffs.

At this point we are missing the pieces for the full picture. Not a good day for those affected but definitely too early to be panicking.

I. (Natasha) defended RIM but these people are starting to piss me off. https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151788236840113&id=688360112&set=a...

Lean mean hunting machine = minus 6000 people? Yike.

some of you guys who are laughing, that nasty. Not funny being out of a job. Rim needs it but never that funny as to fall out of my f@#!! chair. Not funny in the slightest when raising a family is a real concern. Good thing this site is called crackberry, cus some of yous are cracked.

Peace

it's funny to see how people just do not understand the logic of what is going on. instead they just want to see a good company go down the drain for no apparent reason. ofcourse the obvious reason is RIM sucks because of their phone. really...thats a great reason if you're an idiot. what RIM is going through is no different from what other companies had to do to strategicly to complete their transition.

it is what it is. either 6000 jobs are eliminated or entire company will be eliminated. I am sure that once rim comes back (as much as it can) many of people losing jobs today will be hired back.

Is she giving them?

Whaat !! They're working on bb10 ! And 6000 employees are gone !! That's confusing ! RIM is dead, and BB10 won't make any difference ! That's sad, I used to be a blackberry fan !

This is one source, Alastair Sharp, who says he heard it from two sources (which could be his dog and his cat) and every media outlet is grasping onto it and spreading it like he was Moses bringing the tablets down. Nobody is going to let the truth stand in the way of what is big news right now.

Unless you hear Thorsten Heins say it .. I wouldnt put too much stock in any "sources confirmed"

And for every simpleton who thinks he is clever and unique by posting RIP RIM.... If and when reports of their death is proven to be exaggerated or premature... I hope you are man enough to step up and and apologize for being so flippant about other peoples jobs and professions.

Honestly, seeing that headline over a blackberry advertisement of mobile fusion is more of an insult to RIM than anything else, and it just shows that the author's hatred or way of trying to put RIM down. Maybe I didn't explain my point properly, but I hope it still came across.

This is why I hate watching tv news, they just spam the same crap over and over, and have nothing but bad news to talk about, otherwise they make it up. Pretty sure that it was Globe & Mail that either started the 6 thousand global employee lay-off or made it sound worse. Everyone knew RIM was already restructuring, and apparently this big layoff had nothing to do with it. They also try to make it sound like this restructering is going to hinder BB10.

IT IS OUR DUTY TO GO AND BUY A BB10 PHONE AS SOON AS IT IS RELEASED. We will save this great company.

My comment is just the following: it is incredible how journalists can change the reality. I read articles where they mentioned "bankruptcy" (ah? a company with 2.1B in cash reserves and 78M customers?) and a few others stupid statements that are way far from the truth.
Layoffs are painful but, in this case, for a company that is "changing skin" are something that had to be done. Shame the previous CEOs didn't do that way before. The other things that are never mentioned is that RIM is hiring like crazy, new teams around the new BB10. No one said that, right?

I have definitely picked up a vibe that some in tech journalism are WAY too happy to write RIM off. Is this some leftover hostility toward Lazaridis bubbling to the surface? No doubt things are bad at RIM, but I'm not sure they're quite at bankruptcy's door.

I think a lot of it has to do with the simple fact that its not an American based company. I believe I think its a opposite that a lot of companies do see a real value with rim, and that why rim is constantly being downplayed n dissed a lot.

The general comsumer is too busy playing games n texting wit their ipone n android to really understand that berries where designed primarily as a comm n biz device, not as a multiamedia device.

Blackberries, as dismal as their image is now, WILL NOT disappear. IMO its just too valuable to a lot of people. There are a lot of ppl who don't own stock in rim, but the ones who do are the ones, I think, are creating the atmosphere of hate n paranoia of rim. BB10 will not be a runaway succeed but it will save rim and make the company relavent again and for its future.

Peace

As I said for the past 4 months while working for RIM under Marketstar; they should have listened to their field reps and this would not have happened. RIM always put the cart before the horse,. Now they're the horse's ass. I have no sympathy for a company who dumps employees at their leisure to accommodate them. The field told RIM to put up or shut up for a year. Now they're going to eat it. Trust your employees. As far as Marketstar goes; a bunch of sheep drinking the wrong koolaid. Hope the best for the rest of the thousands laid off, I was one of them.