President-elect Obama promised increased healthcare coverage to all Americans. Unfortunately, before the President-elect gets to even start trying to do so, states with financial difficulties are slashing their healthcare coverage. The L.A. Times reports: -llinois’ senior citizens are facing the traumatic prospect of being moved from nursing homes teetering on the edge of bankruptcy as [...]
January 14, 2009
Parents of Mein Führer v2.0 Get Pink Slip From State of NJ
Obviously they won’t be nominated for parents of the year, but things just got worse for Heath and Deborah Campbell. First they tried, unsuccessfully, to get “Happy Birthday Adolf Hilter” written on a birthday cake from their local ShopRite supermarket for their 3-year old son. (His given name is really Adolf Hitler Campbell). Now comes [...]
January 14, 2009
Less to Laugh About at 236.com
I don’t know if this is a good thing, but The Huffington Post acquired the rights to 236.com (23/6), an IAG-owned comedy site. Now, Barry Diller was about to shut it down anyway, so I guess some jobs were spared. Now, only about a dozen of 236.com staffers will get the ax instead of the [...]
January 14, 2009
Bernard Madoff Is the Devil
This Madoff guy must be the devil. How could you just knowingly swindle millions of dollars from people. First, the revelation of his Ponzi scheme caused Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet to kill himself. Now, the douchebag’s scandal could be the cause of layoffs at an animal shelter in West Palm Beach, Fla.! That’s right, [...]
January 14, 2009
Today in Layoff Land
Lexington, Tenn. seminary plans to cut staff Kansas Rubbermaid plant announces 75 layoffs Casper Star-Tribune in Idaho lays off 15 Semitool lays off 200 in Mont. Pfizer to cut 800 in research and development Deere to cut 40 jobs in Iowa 90 to be laid off at Maine textile plant
January 14, 2009
The Hits Keep Coming at Barclays nee Lehman Bros
According to Bloomberg, yesterday Barclays Plc announced an additional 2,000 job cuts in its retail, commercial-banking and credit-card units. The company previously announced 2,100 lay offs in their investment banking, investment management, and private banking division, plus another 400 cuts in their IT department. So why hasn’t Dick Fuld been prosecuted yet? No disrespect to the [...]
January 14, 2009
UpMo.com Puts Emphasis in Upward Mobility
With all these unemployed people running around, competition is insane. Job search websites like Monster and Hotjobs aren’t enough anymore. Hundreds, even thousands of people are competing for the same positions. Your chances of getting into an Ivy League university are higher than your chances of getting a job. That’s why UpMo.com was created. The [...]
January 14, 2009
Internet Can Not Handle Demand For “Best Job in the World”
Leave it to those free-wheeling Aussies to come up with such a brilliant idea! The state of Queensland recently posted a job on www.islandreefjob.com in which one individual will be chosen to spend six months on Hamilton Island, off of the Great Barrier Reef. The site was so overloaded with interest it temporarily crashed and now takes time to [...]
January 14, 2009
LAUSD Board Authorizes Possible Pink Slips for 2,300 Teachers
California is broke, and the Los Angeles School Board offered a way to help save money: lay off 2,300 teachers if there are no other options. Luckily Supt. Ramon C. Cortines is looking at all other alternatives before actually putting the layoffs into action. Classrooms are already overcrowded and, being a product of the California [...]
