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Sports news and commentary Deadspin has been sold again — and its entire staff has been laid off. Deadspin, once owned by Gawker Media, became part of G/O Media in 2019. In a memo to company staff Monday, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that Deadspin was sold to European firm Lineup Publishing. With the sale, the staff of Deadspin is getting pink-slipped. “Deadspin’s new owners have made the decision to not carry over any of the site’s existing staff and instead build a new team more in line with their editorial vision for the brand,” Spanfeller wrote in the...

Workers contracted with YouTube Music made headlines this weekend for saying they’d been laid off in the middle of an Austin City Council meeting. A clip of last Thursday’s city council meeting shows Jack Benedict, a member of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA), appealing to the city council to pass a resolution in support of the workers. As he’s speaking, one of his coworkers, Katie Marschner, walks up and tells him: "Not to interrupt but they just laid us all off."

A large batch of Ford workers at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne have been temporarily laid off as the company endures the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. The company said Friday the number of workers was approximately 600, WWMT reported Friday. The workers affected are from the body construction department and the south sub-assembly area of integrated stamping, the outlet noted.

Hundreds of thousands of retail workers across the US have been furloughed from their jobs until further notice as their employers take drastic measures to cut costs during the coronavirus crisis. The retail sector has been hit hard over the past few weeks and months, and for conflicting reasons. While grocery chains and food delivery companies are scrambling to meet surging demand, other retail businesses deemed "nonessential" by the government have been forced to shutter stores and are now finding that a large portion of their business has dried up. Store closures across the country are taking their toll on...

This is a stunning 45 second video by ex HP programmers exposing Carly Fiorina expressing support for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama!

<p>Illinois employers warned they would lay off more than 1,000 workers in the coming months, according to notices filed with Illinois regulators in February.</p> <p>Accretive Health warned it would lay off 148 workers. The company said in January the layoffs are part of a broader restructuring in which positions will be moved from Chicago to other cities to be closer to clients. Accretive said then the layoffs could affect as many as 170 workers. The company employs about 600 people in the region.</p>

This list has been getting around the web quite a bit. By most accounts it seems to be written by VtheK, with the original post here.I've only seen it in text, and this is the perfect type of thing to make a graphic for...

I am a 62 year old engineer who is wheelchair bound. I just got laid off from my job, and I have applied to like 50 jobs so far with no success. I doubt I find one before the election because everyone is afraid to hire because of the uncertainty, and with Obamacare looming, I don't blame them. If Obama is re-elected I am afraid my goose is cooked along with millions of others in the same shape that I am. It's not my nature to seek handouts, so applying for disabilty, social security, etc. is not an option for...

A teacher who supported Barack Obama’s education "stimulus" bill ends up getting laid off—twice! Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess, a young lass of 25 years, agreed to fly to Washington to stand behind President Obama and give him symbolic support as he signed his much-touted (but ultimately very empty) "education" stimulus bill on August 10. While she was already unemployed at that time, the expectation was that Obama’s all-saving bill would "stimulate" local Toledo schools into hiring her. However, for poor, little Amanda, not only was her effective lay off date August 25, but after she was hired for...

A 30-STONE factory worker has been laid off - in case he falls on his pals and CRUSHES them. Tubby Barry Fowers had to climb on platforms despite being prone to blackouts. But he was considered a danger to himself and others and took an offer of redundancy at his job making power equipment. Barry, 51 - who also has diabetes, angina and other heart problems - said: "I had to climb on to platforms about three feet off the floor to install parts. They were worried I might pass out through my diabetes. They said my weight was a...

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is considering steps to ease the burdens of laid-off workers, including possible extensions of unemployment and health benefits, officials said Saturday. The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package to augment the $787 billion measure approved this year. But with the jobless rate continuing to climb, President Barack Obama said Saturday he is exploring "additional options to promote job creation."

I just got laid off and I'm thinking about working for free. I've been working for 27 years and I've been fortunate that this is the first time this has happened to me. I have a family with 3 kids and I won't be able to work for free for very long (for a couple weeks perhaps) but I thought that I might look for work outside my usual 10 hour day in a cubicle tap-tap-tapping on a computer for the tech industry. I got paid well but to tell the truth I'm tired of the hectic pace and Asperger...

One of my readers is an underemployed 59-year-old man from among us here in the South Suburbs. Call him Harry. He works in information technology. Slowly and wearily, he says: "Once you get past 50, I swear, it gets tough, it gets really tough." For instance, Harry applied for a job with a city of Chicago department that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He got an offer for some contract work. There were no benefits, but it was a paying job. A woman from the city called him one Monday morning and wanted to know if...

<p>BEIJING — A laid-off Chinese worker set himself on fire in Tiananmen Square (search) in central Beijing early Wednesday on China's National Day and was hospitalized with injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency (search) said. The report said his motive was unknown.</p>

More aid requests from once affluent seen ALLEN – Mary Ann Knight thought she had seen and heard it all in the eight years she has worked at Allen Community Outreach, helping people make ends meet. That is, until former upper-middle-class residents, hit hard by corporate layoffs that have rocked North Texas the last three years, began walking through the agency's doors, seeking help paying bills. Mixed in their stacks of monthly bills that cover life's necessities are those that also cover lives the clients don't want to leave behind: $800 car payments, private school tuition that ranges from $1,200...