Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production to follow. Grab the RSS feed! In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips! Items Mentioned: Ford Motor Credit, Ashley Furniture, Old Sturbridge Village, TMK Ipsco, Unemployment Haiuks Direct Download … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #6
The Recession File: #5
Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production to follow. Grab the RSS feed! In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips!Items Mentioned: Toyota buyouts, Google Audio Ads, Nike, Microsoft, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, The405Club.com. Direct Download … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #5
The Recession File: #4
Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production to follow. Grab the RSS feed! In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips!Items Mentioned: $789b stimulus package, YellowBook, Appled Micro Circuits, Sheriff's Department in Placer County, U.S. retail sales up, men more likely to get laid off. Direct Download … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #4
How I Found My Job During the Recession
After getting laid off, I entered my own personal “Unemploymentality”. And unfortunately, I didn’t immediately find the silver lining. Instead I retreated to the biggest pity party I had ever thrown myself. What finally woke me up from my coma?An impromptu phone interview that resulted in an in-person interview (remember I almost acted desperate on my first interview?). This ultimately transpired into...a JOB!I wish that I could give you some grand story about how I left my last job embracing the pink slip in hand, smiling and skipping into a fierce and determined frenzy that culminated into a newer, shinier, and prettier occupation.Instead, it was the hard work I did in the few weeks prior to the actual layoff. Once I entered the world of unemployment, I pretty much fit the stereotype down to the bath robed drone staring off into the television.So what beautiful words of wisdom do I have to leave my fellow pink-slippers? What magic key is there to unlock the door to … [Read more...] about How I Found My Job During the Recession
The Recession File: #3
Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production to follow. Grab the RSS feed! In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips!Comapnies Mentioned: Intel, Starbucks, Caterpillar, USB Bank, TimelyDemise.com. … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #3
Work Lyrics: i don't wanna wake up
E-shy began performing as a teenager as a spoken word poet on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Sounding like Eminem, he takes out his aggression against 'The Man' with his new song "I Hate My Boss."i don't wanna wake upi don't wanna go to workcause i hate my bossi'm gonna kill him … [Read more...] about Work Lyrics: i don't wanna wake up
Why the Obama Salary Cap Is Lame
Those ever-so-popular executive compensation packages have been in the news quite a bit lately thanks to President Obama's decision to force companies to limit the amount of money they give to bank executives if that bank gets a bailout check. I think it's a bad idea for companies or the government to limit executive pay (although I may be the only one), and here's why.So Long, SuckersThink about this. Imagine that you are one of those highly-paid executives, and your company suddenly adopts a plan that will limit your pay. Now you have a choice. You can either stay at your current job and get less pay, or you can move to a company down the road that would love to get your skills working for them (and they will be paying a premium for your services). What are you going to do? We both know that you're going to move to the new company for more pay. Why would you expect an executive to do anything different?You Get What You Pay ForIf you want a good, top-shelf executive to run your … [Read more...] about Why the Obama Salary Cap Is Lame
The Recession File: #2
Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production to follow. Grab the RSS feed! In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips!Comapnies Mentioned: Muzak, Harvard, Wal-Mart, Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Direct Download … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #2
Joe Torre and Corporate Loyalty
If anyone in Major League Baseball seemed to stand in stark contradiction to the corporate fat cat owners, and their armies of accountants and attorneys, it was always Joe Torre. Yup, good ole Joe who, despite the fact that he's a millionaire many times over, possessed what can best be described as that 'common touch' we in America love so much. While the standard M.O. of the Steinbrenners and others of their gizzillionaire ilk is to operate on the profit uber alles mentality, Joe appeared to stand for principles, for leadership, and above all for loyalty.Yet to many, including not only baseball fans, but sportscasters and even players, Torre's previous populist persona has been besmirched by the revelations he recently made in his new book. True, and while the entire bio isn't all that kiss and tell, Torre does take a good number of swipes at not only the Yankee management, but at some players as well. Probably everyone can either agree with, or at least understand, Torre's taking on … [Read more...] about Joe Torre and Corporate Loyalty
The Recession File: #1
Jobacle.com is proud to launch The Recession File, a daily audio broadcast that will deliver the latest unemployment news and layoff headlines in 90 seconds or less. Fancy production and RSS feed to follow. In the meantime, tell a friend and do your best to dodge those pink slips! Comapnies Mentioned: University of Chicago Medical Center, FedEx Freight, McDonalds, Recessionwire. Direct Download … [Read more...] about The Recession File: #1