As I know, it doesn't depend on what you work as.
<HTML>I have a friend, her husband is EE and has been here almost three years. He was laid off from Nortel just because the project he worked for which has finished. My friend works for Nortel Chip on Carrier told me that there were three people laid off last week in his dept, two engineer and one technician. No matter what they work on, just because the company need cut the expense.</HTML>