Also see: The Boston Globe Needs Purple-Tinted Glasses For Gaza
"Set for life? The unemployed say it's an illusion" by Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press | March 6, 2009
If anything will keep workers safe from layoffs, it isn't these: a graduate degree, a government job, a six-figure salary or even a new promotion. The people who used to be shielded during recessions are feeling unusually vulnerable these days. They are jobless in large numbers and the blow to their confidence is magnified because they aren't bouncing back as quickly as in past downturns, despite solid credentials and connections.... --more--"
Yeah, never mind the rabble getting its ass pounded every time. How many times can the MSM insult the American worker, anyway?
Need another one?
"Managers who deliver bad news are stressed, too
One personnel manager wakes in despair at 4 a.m., worried about the employees in her company. Another boss has to remind himself to eat right and exercise so that he can handle the stress. A third says he has had tears in his eyes for months.
They are the bearers of bad news, the Grim Reapers, the corporate executioners, the office hatchet men. They're the ones whose job is to tell employees they have been laid off. And these days, they're miserable, too.
Awwwwww, poor a**hole!! At least HE'S STILL WORKING -- for now! Is the MSM something or what?
"It takes a huge amount of energy to ensure I don't get emotional," said Wendy Mahle, the human resources manager at Sunrise-based Perfumania, which just laid off 95 employees because it is moving its headquarters to New York's Long Island. "If I started crying, that wouldn't help anybody."
American employers slashed 651,000 jobs in February, even more than analysts expected. When the monthly numbers come out, the focus is on the newly unemployed. Less attention is paid to the stress levels of those delivering the news. And they want it known they aren't all cold-hearted, script-reading drones who don't care about the people they are cutting loose.... --more--"
I really don't want to hear the violin about THEIR PROBLEMS, 'kay, shit MSM?
And about those LOST JOBS:
"The vanishing American job; 651,000 more losses in February point up changing workplace" by Peter S. Goodman and Jack Healy, New York Times | March 7, 2009
As government data revealed that 651,000 more jobs disappeared in February, a sense took hold that growing joblessness may reflect a wrenching restructuring of the US economy....
Translation: those jobs are gone. They are never coming back.
"These jobs aren't coming back," said John E. Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia in Charlotte, N.C. "A lot of production either isn't going to happen at all, or it's going to happen somewhere other than the United States...."
We've known that for quite sometime.
The latest crisis challenges the traditional American response to hard times....
Well, Obama is not worried so why should you be, American?
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