February 5, 2009

Today in Layoff Land

Starbucks lets go of 10o employees in the corporate office
MasterBrand lays off 135 in Ore.
Winder cuts 30 in Georgia 
Meadowbrook Farms has temporarily laid off 600 
Lubrizol lets go of 170
Morton Metalcraft lays off 200
City of Sacramento lays off 24
Ravenna Ductile Iron foundry to lay off 125 workers
Estee Lauder to Cut 2,000 
Wall Street Journal to cut 24
Bombardier [...]

February 5, 2009

New Career Path: Become A Weather Person

With all this climate change stuff happening quicker than Dick Cheney can fire a shot gun into someone’s face, why not think about going into meteorology? And the best part is you have a day where everyone loves you because February 5 is National Weatherman’s Day!
According to the National Weather Service,  [...]

February 5, 2009

To Do List: Enhance White House Security

With all the banter and bickering about the stimulus plan, executive pay caps, and tax cheats, clearly The White House staff forgot to look outside and notice a band of racoons traipsing around near the West Wing and Executive Mansion!
And just like public enemy #1, Osama Bin Laden, they have evaded capture for some time [...]

February 5, 2009

Putting Things In Perspective

Though times pretty much suck here for all of us that can’t get a job, I watched this crazy documentary last night called Heavy Metal In Baghdad, which really showed me just how much worse things could be. It documents, over the course of a few years,  just how horrible it [...]

February 5, 2009

Who Greenlighted This Hot Mess?

Even though hundreds of thousands of peeps are getting laid off every week, they are apparently still hiring out there in Los Angeles, and you don’t even have to starve yourself!
According to AP, Carnie “I still can’t stop eating after gastric bypass surgery” Wilson has somehow snagged a gig with GSN, some cable game show [...]

February 5, 2009

Fellow Empire Staters Feel My Pain!

David Patterson, are you listening??
These hotties are even smarter than me and they got laid off too!! But like us, they are trying to make the most of their paltry weekly dole from New York State. God speed my fellow citizens!
The 405 Club
New York’s Fastest Growing Club.
On January 14th, at about 4pm, one Tufts and [...]