Well it is starting to happen in my area. Today 60 people are being let go from where I work. Another company that makes rims for the "small 3" has closed it doors, 243 people out of work. Other plants in the area have let go over 600 people today. Maybe if I don't answer the phone and just close my door they will leave me alone.

 

Same here. I work for a major US insurance company, we've had thousands of cutbacks last year and thousands more scheduled for next year. The scary thing is, that so many people have lost jobs, that now I'm at the bottom of the totum pole.

 

The company I work for announced 2000 layoffs last week, 1290 of them at our plant. We are still down 1400 from the last layoff a year ago just in our plant. In December they asked for 1200 non exempt employees to take a voluntary retirement.

 

According to the incoming administration there will be 2 million jobs be created or 'saved' * and another 2 million jobs created or 'saved' * in 2010.


* Revised, modified, and updated prediction as of 01/12/2009.

 

Unless they grant another extension onto the 26 weeks of un-employment, that's a long time to hold one's breath!

 

I'm thirsty. Does anyone have any Kool-Aid?

Whew, refreshing. Thank you.

 

I hope you guys noticed the new rhetoric of "saved" jobs which now equally shares the stage with "creating" jobs, so the incoming administration is setting itself to be credited for saving jobs which people would not have lost.

Whoever has not read Animal Farm should spend a few bucks and buy the paperback. It would be a good preview to the next four years.