LaidOff
More execs starting own businesses, including scooping poop
8:00AM 2/03/2010
Joseph Gliottone has a quick comeback to his former advertising colleagues when they ask him about his new job picking up dog poop.
"It's the same product category, but a different clientele," said Gliottone, 53, who was a senior vice president of print production at an ad agency in Boston, and...
One great thing about bowling, at least to the casual fan, is that even if you only bowl a 100-game, hitting a few strikes can leave you believing that maybe someday you'll be good enough to be a pro bowler.
I've seen guys with beer guts put such sweet spin on a bowling ball that you thought it...
Everyone in an office has an opinion on who the slackers are in their area and who should be fired or laid off if it comes to that. But they don't get to make those decisions; the bosses do.
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Canned over a tuna fish sandwich: Employers use any excuse (and the recession) to lay off workers
4:30PM 3/17/2009
Anyone who has worked in food service knows that any day-old goods are up for grabs. I've heard of people feeding their whole families on leftovers brought home from work. And once it does go to the trash, it's often picked up by dumpster divers. And why not? Better to feed someone than let it go...
Even though he could be counted on to always know your name and favorite drink Eddie Doyle, the real life Cheers bartender, was laid off late last month along with several other employees of Cheers. Doyle's layoff from his "perfect job" has been blamed on the continued economic crisis that has...
When Chris Hutchins, a 24-year-old management and business strategy consultant got laid off in December, he decided to take networking to a different level. He launched something called "LaidOffCamp San Francisco."Hutchins says the times are right for a self-organizing networking and coping group...
The laid-off chronicles: Nannies getting the axe
4:00PM 12/12/2008
I wrote earlier this week about how child care is becoming a luxury that many families can't afford; and in the post I predicted that, in a prolonged downturn, "full-time child care will be a perk that only the wealthiest two-income families even consider." In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, news...
Recent unemployment statistics are somewhat frightening: last week, the Labor Department reported that new applications for unemployment insurance had jumped by 38,000 over the previous week. The number of first-time claims, 407,000, was the highest that it's been since immediately after Hurricane...
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