Hewlett-Packard workers fired up their PCs this morning only to find a long memo from Mark Hurd explaining why he was hitting them with wide-ranging pay cuts in an effort to prevent further job losses at the computer vendor.

The move followed HP’s first quarter earnings report yesterday in which it coughed to a double digit dip in printer, server, and PC sales.

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