Anyone else get laid off this last week? I was told to clear out my desk by the end of the day Thursday along with 35% of my fellow employees that my company has decided to lay off. Now I need to search for another job and frankly can't wait for this madness to be over soon.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Good luck to you. "It's bad, you know." Thanks, R. L. Burnside...
beware of the leopard
· 1 year ago
O&W: You should listen to Papa Ray on KDHX.org on Mondays between 4-6:50pC. He plays RL Burnside and all kinds of fine R&B, soul, blues, etc. It's free. just download their music player program(if you don't already have it) and enjoy. Check out their other shows/schedule, too. BOTL from St. Louis
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
What was your field pete?
Speedy recovery to you and the other laid off employees.
satiricalpete
· 1 year ago
I was in international sales for a wholesale travel company (We offered USA travel product). As our clientele is mostly European/Australian/Japanese, we might be in a better position if the recession had just been national, but as this has ricocheted globally (among with foreign currencies plunging against the US Dollar) it has hit us quite hard.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
I see, did your company offer a good severence package?
My apologies for all of my inquiries, I'm just a curious person by nature.
satiricalpete
· 1 year ago
Nope...I got nothing, except a pay-out on my unused vacation days...Coincidentally, our CEO is a Republican.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
I am not a believer in coincidence.
Get back on your feet soon Pete! Much luck!
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
I'm self employed but I lost a job because my client got laid off from Citibank.
Sorry, The Nation does nothing to calm my jitters, Katrina or no Katrina.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Has Larry Summers learned anything? (Thanks to TPMCafe poster..)
The New York Times, November 13, 1999:
President Clinton signed into law today a sweeping overhaul of Depression-era banking laws. The measure lifts barriers in the industry and allows banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge and to sell each other's products.
''This legislation is truly historic,'' President Clinton told a packed audience of lawmakers and top financial regulators. ''We have done right by the American people.''
The bill repeals parts of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act...
''The world changes, and Congress and the laws have to change with it,'' said Senator Phil Gramm...
''With this bill,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said, ''the American financial system takes a major step forward toward the 21st Century -- one that will benefit American consumers, business and the national economy.''
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Good morning! Nobody's going to be at their desk much this week. It's a well-deserved holiday after a tough election battle and an even nastier economic collapse. But now it's partying-time and we won't be back on track until after the New Year. So . . . par-tay! We have nothing left to loose but our boredom!
scooter in brooklyn
· 1 year ago
enjoy your turkey john! and a belated thank you for that terrific post yesterday about bigotry disguised as religiosity.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
Lost a pant load of respect for Tiger Woods when he has been so chummy chummy with this misogynistic bunch.
Tiger moved to Hollywood. He used to be a perfectly ordinary Florida gentleman golfer who lived in Orlando; now he's Hollywood. Bad behavior goes with the fame.
triple7s
· 1 year ago
So the AUTO BIG 3 needed a BIG plan for 25b. Citigroup gets 300b!!! So what's the plan? CEO bonus? Trips to the old RESORT?Just WTF?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Ditto that!
MaudGonne
· 1 year ago
What happens as tobacco continues un-regulated....
Snus -- Swedish for tobacco, rhymes with ''noose'' -- is a tiny, tea bag-like pouch of steam-pasteurized, smokeless tobacco to tuck between the cheek and gum. Aromatic to the user and undetectable to anyone else, it promises a hit of nicotine without the messy spitting associated with chewing tobacco. Just swallow the juice. ...
Reynolds America Inc., the nation's No. 2 tobacco company, can also expect resistance from the public health community. Experts wonder whether snus will help wean people off cigarettes and snuff, or just foster a second addiction. While snus has been around, it hasn't been prominent in this country.
''I think we're all holding our breath in terms of what's going to be coming down the pike,'' says Dorothy Hatsukami, director of the Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Minnesota. ''There's not much known about these products -- what's in these products, how they're going to be used, who's going to be using them and what the effects of that use will be. ... Will it create more harm or less harm?'' http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-Reinv...
MaudGonne
· 1 year ago
Top al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubair al-Masri ‘was missile target in Bush campaign for favourable legacy’ Abu Zubair al-Masri was understood to have been holding an operational meeting with four other key figures Tom Coghlan in Kabul, Michael Evans, Defence Editor and Catherine Philp
A top al-Qaeda explosives expert was the main target of the US spy-drone attack in Pakistan last weekend and not the British terrorism suspect who also apparently died in the strike, intelligence sources have told The Times. Abu Zubair al-Masri, an Egyptian described as being “high up in the al-Qaeda pecking order”, was understood to have been holding an operational meeting with four other key figures, including Rashid Rauf, the British-Pakistani terror suspect, when three Hellfire missiles were fired at their thick-walled compound in the village of Ali Khel, about ten miles from the Afghan-Pakistan border. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...
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Speedy recovery to you and the other laid off employees.
My apologies for all of my inquiries, I'm just a curious person by nature.
Get back on your feet soon Pete! Much luck!
Nate Silver projects:
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/projecti...
I can hardly wait to see O'REALLY's head blow up when he realizes his arch nemesis is the Senator from Minnesota!
LOL
lmao
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/385749/let...
The New York Times, November 13, 1999:
President Clinton signed into law today a sweeping overhaul of Depression-era banking laws. The measure lifts barriers in the industry and allows banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge and to sell each other's products.
''This legislation is truly historic,'' President Clinton told a packed audience of lawmakers and top financial regulators. ''We have done right by the American people.''
The bill repeals parts of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act...
''The world changes, and Congress and the laws have to change with it,'' said Senator Phil Gramm...
''With this bill,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said, ''the American financial system takes a major step forward toward the 21st Century -- one that will benefit American consumers, business and the national economy.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088...
Snus -- Swedish for tobacco, rhymes with ''noose'' -- is a tiny, tea bag-like pouch of steam-pasteurized, smokeless tobacco to tuck between the cheek and gum. Aromatic to the user and undetectable to anyone else, it promises a hit of nicotine without the messy spitting associated with chewing tobacco. Just swallow the juice. ...
Reynolds America Inc., the nation's No. 2 tobacco company, can also expect resistance from the public health community. Experts wonder whether snus will help wean people off cigarettes and snuff, or just foster a second addiction. While snus has been around, it hasn't been prominent in this country.
''I think we're all holding our breath in terms of what's going to be coming down the pike,'' says Dorothy Hatsukami, director of the Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Minnesota. ''There's not much known about these products -- what's in these products, how they're going to be used, who's going to be using them and what the effects of that use will be. ... Will it create more harm or less harm?''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-Reinv...
Abu Zubair al-Masri was understood to have been holding an operational meeting with four other key figures
Tom Coghlan in Kabul, Michael Evans, Defence Editor and Catherine Philp
A top al-Qaeda explosives expert was the main target of the US spy-drone attack in Pakistan last weekend and not the British terrorism suspect who also apparently died in the strike, intelligence sources have told The Times. Abu Zubair al-Masri, an Egyptian described as being “high up in the al-Qaeda pecking order”, was understood to have been holding an operational meeting with four other key figures, including Rashid Rauf, the British-Pakistani terror suspect, when three Hellfire missiles were fired at their thick-walled compound in the village of Ali Khel, about ten miles from the Afghan-Pakistan border.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...