Thanks for all the fish - cash rich tech companies fire workers

It's tough to be laid off, it must be tougher still to be laid off from a company with billions in cash -- especially since you helped build that cash reserve.

Here is a list of cash (and debt) held by some our leading tech companies:

Microsoft (MSFT) $19.71 billion ($1.98 billion debt)

Google (GOOG) $14.41 billion (0 debt)

Intel (INTC) $11.84 billion ($1.99 billion debt)

Cisco Systems (CSCO) $26.7 billion ($6.87 billion debt)

Adobe (ADBE) $2.02 billion ($350 million debt)

Yahoo! (YHOO) $3.2 billion ($63 million debt)

eBay (EBAY) $3.64 billion (0 debt)

Apple (AAPL) $24.49 billion (0 debt)