[the dude]

ok, there are a lot of rumours out there. i've spoken to half-a-dozen dofasco people and gotten a different response from each of them. apparently some people have been given the boot. maybe a couple dozen. all the slackers who were ignored under the old regime are being fired under arcelor-mittal. dudes who sleep on the job, surf porn during work hours, etc., are gonzo. at this point it doesn't look like a large scale purging. that said, they've been quietly whittling down the work force for years at dofasco. i think they're down to 6,000 today.