Mayberry Machiavelli
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:02 PM
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Poll question: Has Anyone Close To You Lost Their Job Recently? |
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:04 PM
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1. The company I worked for before the one I'm with now |
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went out of business 12/31. 40 people lost their jobs.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:06 PM
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2. Two friends (one just got laid off Friday). |
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:07 PM
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3. Seven friends in a variety of fields, including finance/banking, |
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advertising, pharmaceutical research, retail and teaching. :cry:
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:09 PM
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4. almost everyone I know |
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The company my husband worked for closed its doors.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:11 PM
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5. I'm about as close to me as I can get. Another of my former |
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co-workers was let go last week. It was a nice small company. I have a feeling that in the next few weeks it will be gone altogether. Good product, good pricing, saturated market and no-one is buying.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:11 PM
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6. Add another possibility. |
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"Multiple friends/family"
With what you show we can only vote singularly.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:11 PM
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7. my daughter-14 plus at a auto supplier |
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she may be back in the fall
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:13 PM
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He and his co-workers were told last week that their office will be closing at the end of May. He'll get a month of severance pay. My sister was relieved that he wasn't let go immediately.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:15 PM
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no big layoff, just a little at a time over the past 3 months. They don't do it all at once or all of a sudden so it doesn't make the news. They are not technically fired. They are considered a reduction in workforce and have 3 months to find another job in the company. There just aren't that many jobs in the company. It's a sneaky way to get rid of people. One person was 3 months from retirement :-( It's tense at work. Any day it could be me.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:37 PM
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10. The key word is "recently". |
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My BF and I both fell out of the middle class back in the early 1990s. Never gotten a decent job since then. Education and skills are a big disadvantage.
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:37 PM
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11. I've still got my job, but I've been cut to 32 hours a week. That's a 20% pay cut. |
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Now I'm trying to get 5 days worth of work done in 4 days. It's rather stressful... :(
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Tue Feb-10-09 06:38 PM
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12. A large plant here..... |
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...has gone to a 4-day work week to avoid lay-offs for now. They are a supplier to the airline industry so they will probably get to lay-offs before long. My brother works there. He has a small farm out in the sticks where he raises a huge garden and there is all kinds of wild game. His electric bill runs about $60/month, so he can live very cheaply if need be. I live at a lake and I could survive on fish if I had to. My freezer is currently packed! I usually swap him fresh fish for vegetables. A good deal for both of us.
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