None of it's surprising
I'm just wondering how my old firm is going to cope, they bought Nortel's optics division back in about 2002 when the telecomms bubble burst. The ex Nortel staffers proved themselves to be self serving pricks then, demanding pay freezes for all except the senior management etc....
This was despite the fact the best engineers were leaving left right and centre due to having already had their pay frozen for the last 2 years already. What a lot of people don't get is just how many jobs rely on a company like Nortel, it's like the car industry. Lose 4000 at the car plant, lose another 60,000 from the local industry.