Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lay off more people Dow lays off 110 in Louisiana Blue Bird lays off people in Georgia Caterpillar cuts 2,000 more jobs Lee County community development to let go 19 in Fla. Cessna cuts 2,000 employees Codman Neurovascular to lay off 159 CommScope lays off 230 Hitachi may slash [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 30, 2009
Recession May Force Variety & Hollywood Reporter into Merger
Reuters is reporting today, that Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, rival newspapers that have competed against one another to corner the coverage of the film industry, may now band together to fend off a common enemy: the recession. As ad revenue fall, and daily bloggers chip away at their readership, both publications have laid off [...]
January 30, 2009
How To Get Fired 201
So no huge shocker here, Amerika’s favorite Governor, Rod “BLAGO” Blagojevich, is now an EX-Governor. After a 59-0 vote, poor Blago was impeached and immediately removed from office after six years of service. But it doesn’t end there! The state Senate also UNANIMOUSLY voted to give Blago the “political death penalty,” which bans him from [...]
January 30, 2009
Meathead Sued Over Workplace Behavior
Wow, this is actually a true story! The New York Post reports that a Long Island man, Ryan Pacifico, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against his former employer Caylon because his boss there “mercilessly mocked, labeled [him] ‘a homo’ and canned [him] for not eating meat.” The suit claims that the boss-man, Robert [...]
January 30, 2009
Dr. Phil Is Tanking
I know you are all going to be crushed upon reading this, but Amerika’s favorite “therapist” Dr. Phil is not faring well during this depressing recession! According to the Los Angeles Times, “National ratings for “Dr. Phil” have plunged 27% compared with last season, to an average of 4.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media [...]
January 30, 2009
Not Another Funeral!
Apparently the MTA hates New Yorkers, particularly Brooklynites, because they have killed ANOTHER subway line- the M! Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz held another “mock funeral” and this time it was taped and put on YouTube!
January 29, 2009
Recession Stymies Gentrification in Harlem
Fancy-pants realty company Corcoran, just announced that it will be closing its Harlem office at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 120th Street next month. It is one of the many moves the company will be taking to cut costs now that people aren’t shelling out millions of dollars for over-priced apartments as quick as they can [...]
January 29, 2009
Guide To Cheap Produce
Yes, I for one know it’s much easier and cheaper to eat complex carbohydrates three times a day, but you really should be getting some healthy fruits and vegetables in your diet too! About.com has a helpful post about when to buy certain items over others: January oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, tangelos, lemons, papayas, cabbages: red, [...]
January 29, 2009
Stimulus Plans Around the World
It must be a really bad sign when the strongest economies in the world are all going to the gutter. AP lists countries with stimulus plans: Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and the United States—and more to come I bet.
