Hewlett-Packard and Gateway are not paying for Christmas Holidays
Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas Scrooge. The two PC makers are sending employees home without pay for the December holidays. No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Computer will also give time off, but the vacation is paid, a spokesman said. HP is requiring most employees in North America to take off the week of Dec. 23, as HP and Compaq Computer, which HP bought in May, did last year. Workers can use accrued vacation but must take time off without pay if their vacation is used up, spokesman Arch Currid said. It looks like the world is really going down that downward spiral. Read more here