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Unit 4 DownsizingThe e-mail looked harmless enough. Be at the RenaissanceAustinHotel, 20 minutes away, in about an hour. Just another stupid meeting, no doubt. But by the time Dell information technology specialist Chuck Peterson walked into a room filled with 75 of his co-workers and a few managers he had never seen before, he knew what was up. “None of them would look at us,” he says. “They had their backs to us or they were looking at their feet.”这封邮件看上去不足以造成伤害（email跟主题有什么关系？）。会议是在Renaissance Austin旅馆召开的，到旅馆的距离是20分钟，会议在一个小时后召开（20 minutes away,in about an hourr如何理解，补全成分应该怎样？）。毫无疑问，又是一个愚蠢的会议。但是，当戴尔的信息技术专家Chuck Peterson走进房间时，他便知道即将发生什么，房间里是他的75个同事和几个他以前没见过的经理。他说：没有人愿意看我们，他们背对我们或是低着头。The bosses stuck to their script. The economy is bad. We can’t afford to keep you. So we’re not. Hand in your badges on the way out. There were no individual explanations for why these workers – out of a work force of 40,000 – had been picked. The members of the firing squad never even introduced themselves. It was over in eight minutes.老板们按照他们准备的讲稿读。经济不景气，我们承担不起继续雇用你们的开支。所以我们不再雇你们。出去的时候交出你们的公司证件。对于为什么从4万名员工中选择这些人，没有做单独的解释。“行刑队”成员甚至没有介绍他们自己。一切都在八分钟之内完成。(八分钟内就全部结束)Peterson, 40, is one of 1,700 full-time Dell workers who lost their jobs since February, in an economy that has been shedding 100,000 workers a month since the beginning of the year. Last week Winstar Communications, once a wireless wonder, hung up on 2,000 employees – 44% of its staff. TiVo, Sycamore Networks and Extreme Networks added more bodies to the tech sector’s growing pile. AOL Time Warner has announced 2,400 job cuts in response to the slowing economy and pressure from Wall Street. By week’s end unemployment had hit 4.3%, a slight but ominous rise. Worse, job creation was down, more evidence that recession is at hand.Peterson，40岁，是自二月份以来戴尔裁掉的1700名全职员工中的一员，这是发生在年初的头一个月就已经裁员10万人这样的经济状况下的。上周，一度是无线行业中奇迹的温斯达通讯公司暂时解雇了2000名员工，占公司员工总数的44%。TiVo公司，美国光纤网络公司和极进网络公司也加入了科技界裁员大军之中。美国在线时代华纳集团宣布削减2400个工作岗位以响应缓慢的经济增长和来自华尔街的压力。截止到周末，失业率已