That’s right, over 1 million lucky people received the pink slip so far in 2008, and we have a few more weeks to go! I wonder if there’s a way we could see how many of those 1 million people are still unemployed. That number is HUGE! That’s over 1 million on the hunt for [...]
December 3, 2008
Today in Layoff Land
61 layoffs at The Reno Gazette- Journal No layoffs planned at Chrysler this month! Electronic manufacturing company Belden to lay off 1800 Law firm Reed Smith lays off 115 in the US Brazilian mining giant, Vale, lays off 1300 Quaker foods cuts 82 in Manhattan Private equity firm Carlyle to cut 10 percent of its [...]
December 3, 2008
More Bad News On the Publishing Front
A round-up of today’s news on the demise of print publications: Editor & Publisher magazine reports that Fitch Ratings, a credit rating firm predicts “several cities” around the country will be without daily newspapers by 2010, due to default and liquidation. The report rates newspaper companies McClathy Co. and Tribune Co. “junk, with serious possibilities [...]
December 3, 2008
Another New York Icon Closing
Love Saves the Day, Colorful East Village Icon, to Close! First the 2nd Avenue Deli, now this! After 42 years in the neighborhood, Loves Saves the Day, is set to close in January and it will probably be replaced by a Chase bank or something. Packed with everything that you could ever want, but not [...]
December 3, 2008
We Are All Just Numbers
This just in from Reuters. The private sector got rid of 250,000 jobs in November alone! Is anybody safe anymore? What must we do just to support ourselves? That’s the most in SEVEN years, making the last time, uh, just after 9/11. Totally different circumstances. How the hell are we going to pump up the [...]
December 3, 2008
Good Pink Slips- Obama Cans Bush Ambassadors
The day of America’s salvation is fast approaching, and the incoming Obama administration recently notified all War Criminal Bush-appointed ambassadors that they need to pack up their things by inauguration day, January 20, 2009. According to The Washington Post, the President Elect is quickly cleaning out the closets of the eight terrible years of the [...]
