But there was so much reorganization over these years, trying to get the structure to work, that some commentators saw it as "shuffling execs like cards in a deck." Following the March 2001 restructuring, with up to 80 percent of the staff in the microprocessing unit being given new jobs, one customer thought that people seemed to be moved around a lot without them really knowing where they were going. A former general manager saw Intel as now " dabbling in everything and overwhelming nothing." Other commentators claimed that another problem was that chip managers were now being put in charge of new markets and products about which they knew very little-a charge denied by Barrett. There were also job cuts, with 5,000 jobs lost through attrition during 2001-and more expected.