tisa, may b and/or may b not... who knows. but being in/out of job does NOT MEAN that ONE KNOWS and DOES NOT KNOW. 60% of the people in big companies are overheads. Too much POLITICS. and bureaucracy. Tell you an experience I had in 2000. There was a massive lay off in my company. It was a telecommunication company and it was down sizing from 24000 employee in 1999 to about 8000 by 2000 dec. I was moved from one location in north east to schaumburg, IL. [ no relevency to qualification or work experience. there were 16,000 other engineers. [do not tell me that there were no body better than me pls.... ] Just because, I happen to have a good rapport with my manager who also moved]. ===================================================== as always what do i know (O: