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February 7, 2009
Museum President Makes $1M/Year While Beloved Employee Is Laid Off
This is totally unfair, but unfortunately it is a common story these days. The ‘big shots’ get to keep all their perks and monster paychecks, while all the ‘worker bees’ get axed so the higher ups can “save money.” The New York Times posted a story about last week’s lay off of Beverly Heimberg, an [...]
February 7, 2009
Pink Slip Ground Zero
134 miles north of Indianapolis is the city of Elkhart, IN, population 52,000. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports that every 1 in 7 workers there is currently unemployed. In 2007 unemployment in the area was 4.7%, but as of last December it climbed to 15.3%. Elkhart suffered devastating job losses when the recreational vehicle [...]
February 7, 2009
Every Penny Counts!
CNN recently published a uplifting little story about the Humphery family in Staten Island, NY (woot woot!) that makes a habit of finding “found money.” Every day this family of four add up their findings and put the change in a plastic container. Barbara the mother says, “It’s not so much that we need the [...]
February 7, 2009
Furlough Part Deux
Last month I discovered that “furlough” was not a nice word. It has once again resurfaced, this time in Kal-e-forn-e-a! According to AP, the Governator recently ordered over 200,000 state employees to take two UNPAID days off a month (the first and third Fridays of the month) to try and stem their $42 billion budget [...]
February 7, 2009
The End of the World As We Know It
One of the greatest things to ever happen to NYC was the opening of the Trader Joe’s Wine Shop a few years back. (Other states allow TJ’s to sell wine in regular stores but we have weird laws here so it has to be a separate establishment, not like in CA where you can buy [...]
