Intuit This: You're Fired

• On June 30, 2008, at 4:29 PM, valu3buff wrote: Report this Comment

  Thanks for this article. I posted about this on the boards, but no one bit.

  I'm cutting the cord on this one and going to find myself a business that knows what it's business is.

  Thanks,

  valu3buff

• On June 30, 2008, at 9:37 PM, radicalaccountin wrote: Report this Comment

  QuickBooks online version is getting more popular, but it needs improvement. And yes, we will go to remote data entry, don't you think?

  As to social networking, they've been developing forums for years. I find the discussions very helpful. Maybe they now have a critical mass of people.

  I wish they would focus on the Mac version. That's where my client base is growing.

  Are they downsizing, or moving overseas?

  God bless you if you've made money on this stock.I own 1 (now 2) shares for the report.

• On July 01, 2008, at 12:35 PM, jasonrc wrote: Report this Comment

  Quickbooks online is getting more popular? Check Intuit's latest fact sheet. In the last two quarters customer adds for Quickbooks online have declined by 60% and 70%.

  The rate of growth for the Quickbooks business has been decreasing for the last five quarters. That was preceeded by six consecutive quarters in which the customer add rate on the entry level Quickbooks versions (Basic and Pro) was declining. And now we have Simple Start being offered free, and making up 10% of total QB customer adds last quarter. This business is not well.

• On July 01, 2008, at 12:54 PM, venbacca wrote: Report this Comment

  great article! my husband was one of the 575 that was respectfully laid off! We are exstressing around our expecting our first child in four months, so we are house trying to find him a new job, and if we need to file for bankruptcy. I love Intuit right now,

• On July 01, 2008, at 8:01 PM, outsourceit wrote: Report this Comment

  We were outsourced in our division. We saw it coming but figured we had another year max. We were told to direct the customers to the web to "teach them to fish" so we'd be freed up for the more important calls. Yeah right. "people prefer the web" --umm no , companies like intuit would prefer to take the customers money and tell them their answer is "out there somewhere" or charge them $79 a month to speak to someone in India when they were paying$49 to speak to an american. The drop in incoming calls was replaced with web-based callback requests so there were now more outgoing calls. We had no available time , all off-phone activities were routinely cancelled. We had record profits and they axed us. In case you are wondering why gas is near $4 a gallon they say that the emerging markets of china & india are ramping up--yes--they are now able to afford cars to drive to work to OUR JOBS. So if you think outsourcing doesn't affect you , think again.

• On August 22, 2008, at 10:48 AM, ADC08 wrote: Report this Comment

  Yeah I was a outsourced at the other company in taxes that had layoffs in Feb. I really get a kick out of the CEO's that say it's difficult to find workers with the skill sets and education in America. This is code for we want to pay one third of the salary to people in another country and don't care how the product suffers. Where's the unions for Technology workers? It seems that if the AFL-CIO had a branch for that, I would be the first to join it. Another JA is Bill Gates who says they need to increase the number of I-9's. Well at the company I worked for they utilized them like indentured servants. They had to work over 80 hours a week and always told me that as soon as they get their residency they are finding another job.

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