Dow Jones has been battling the nasty “pink slip” computer virus all week. And its arrival just days after two dozen or so techs were laid off has led to speculation that the company was a victim of sabotage.
The timing of the infection, which hit May 12, was ominous, as 34 employees represented by the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, most of them techs, got actual pink slips a few days earlier. “Everybody’s saying that somebody left it as a going-away present,” a Dow Jones employee said.
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