>Sounds like you've been through h*ll both personally and professionally, John. Thanks for sharing the story. FWIW I think you made the right choice - family and health have to come before career. The old saying comes to mind, "You must work to live, but you shouldn't live to work."
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>Your comments are particularly of interest in light of the Business Week story about the exodus from MS and the stuff from MiniMicrosoft. Almost sounds like something out of Dilbert - kinda scary. Probably not uncommon in many large corporations, but when process becomes more important than product and policy outweighs performance, there's bound to be stress.
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>Thanks for your contributions to VFP while you were on the inside, and best wishes for success on the outside.

I wonder if that attitude from some big corporations could be attributed to some scaring factors.

They organize a reunion and then tell their staff. "Well we're not making as much money as we used to. We have two possibilities. To make drastic adjustments here or to outsource to (insert your favorite outsourcing country here).

For the big corporations it's a win-win situation. If employees agree, and I don't see how they would'nt. Then it could slowly become hell to work there. If they don't then they lose their jobs and those jobs end-up some place where they pay a small portion of what they used to pay.