Bank of America to cut 35,000 jobs in three years
Whirpool announces more layoffs in Iowa
201 layoffs announced at Swanson Group
Furniture brands to lay off 1,400
Ontario GM to lay off 300 temps
DivX cuts 21 employees
Oak Hill Hospital lays off 7 workers
SGI lays off 225 employees
December 11, 2008
Today in Layoff Land
December 11, 2008
Laid Off Writer Lives to Blog Another Day
A writer in the advertising business in Detroit, who seems to specialize in the automotive industry just posted a heart-wrenching essay on how it feels to be fired from a job you love, and promptly escorted out the building.
“First off, you don’t think you’re going to get laid off. Not you… you’ve been given too [...]
December 11, 2008
No Cake For You! Sara Lee Cuts Jobs
Sara Lee will outsource positions in their finance and information services divisions, and will cut about 700 jobs. Earlier this year, the company closed down one of its plants in Deerfield, Ill.
December 11, 2008
Unemployment Claims Highest Since 1982
Ah, 1982. What a year. Olivia Newton John was getting “Physical,” and Survivor had the “Eye of the Tiger.” The Weather Channel aired for the first time. Severe cold winds plunged into the northern U.S. states and caused an unprecedented drop in temperatures on a January Sunday.
And a recession hit the country.
Well, things are going [...]
December 11, 2008
Yeah…I Already Knew This
Today The New York Times, released a story about how well-paid “white-collar” professionals are rapidly joining the unhappily unemployed pool.
The number of workers in New York City, aside from those in the financial industry, receiving unemployment benefits since 2007 has increased by over 40%, while the number of college graduates collecting unemployment has surged by 50%.
The report, [...]
December 11, 2008
Firing Etiquette: How Not to Incite Violence
Here are some useful tidbits from the legal info website Nolo.com, for all you managers out there, planning how to orchestrate those mass layoffs.
Here’s an interesting pointer:
First, bring in security personnel only if you legitimately fear violence, such as if workers have made threats, and even then don’t ask them to use any strong-arm tactics [...]
December 11, 2008
“THIS IS A PAYING GIG”
Lesbians/Bisexual Women For Online Reality Dating Show (New York)
Reply to: job-952746177@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-12-10, 2:12PM EST
Seeking attractive, feminine, lesbians and bisexual women for an upcoming episode of The Wurbble Show (a new online reality dating show). The show is produced by Ostar Enterprises a multi-platform production company responsible for national television programming and Tony Award-winning Broadway [...]
December 11, 2008
Youtube Can Make You Money; “Hires” Symphony Orchestra
So, you’re pink slipped. You’ve been looking for work, but get rejected everywhere you go. You read about job losses every day, and even though the mass layoffs at Yahoo and MTV and the Los Angeles Times and Ogilvy make you feel less alone, they don’t exactly give you hope for the future.
Maybe it’s time [...]
December 11, 2008
Newsweek Cuts Circulation, Page Count and Staff
We told you yesterday that Newsweek is going to slash its circulation by about one million. Wall Street Journal says today that the magazine’s page count will also be slashed—as will its workforce. Layoffs will be announced today.
To save money, Newsweek aspires to cut out costly original reporting in favor of becoming a “thought leader,” focusing [...]
December 11, 2008
Pink Slipped ElleGirls Make Their Own Luck Online
Anne Ichikawa and Melissa Walker, former editors at the now defunct ElleGirl print magazine, have started I Heart Daily, a website and e-newsletter for teenaged girls. Folio describes it as “modeled loosely after the older-skewing Daily Candy.”
Hawking fashion and beauty products to girls online is a potentially lucrative genre. Daily Candy recently sold to Comcast [...]
