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Downsized Executives Forced To Take 'Survival' Jobs
CNBC ^
| 3/1/2009
| Michael Luo
Posted on 03/02/2009 9:28:20 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:30:44 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
To: Red in Blue PA
This guy doesn’t sound like an exec to me... There’s been plenty of downsizing at my employer, but so far no execs have been let go.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:31:00 AM PST
by
Scutter
To: Red in Blue PA
Not to say that I would want to be in this man’s position and I’m glad that he willing to take a job that pays much less than he is used to in order to make ends meat... but wasn’t there a time when it was the norm to be grateful for any job you could get when you were down on your luck?
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:32:13 AM PST
by
chargers fan
(Bring on Next Year!)
To: Scutter
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:35:19 AM PST
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
To: Scutter
This whole article doesn’t quite ring true with me. However, if it is, then I admire the guy for taking whatever job he could find until he can do better.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:35:41 AM PST
by
basil
( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
To: Red in Blue PA
security manager for the western United States for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing a budget of $1.2 million and earning about $70,000 a year. Sniff, sniff. Nope. Doesn't pass the smell test. This one is made up.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:41:41 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: Red in Blue PA
Nine months ago he lost his job as the security manager for the western United States for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing a budget of $1.2 million and earning about $70,000 a year.The term "executive" just doesn't mean what it used to anymore.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:42:42 AM PST
by
Arguendo
To: chargers fan
Not to say that I would want to be in this man’s position and I’m glad that he willing to take a job that pays much less than he is used to in order to make ends meat... Hmmm... meat!
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Agreed. I know people in the company I work for making more to handle less, and they’re earning every penny.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:44:21 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(We didn't have to take any of it seriously, did we?)
To: Arguendo
exactly - this guy was a manager - just as his title reflected.
To: Red in Blue PA
A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do!! I’ve done a lot worse for a lot less.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:45:25 AM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: Scutter
True. . .it is the exec’s that will be the last to go.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:47:06 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: Red in Blue PA
this is not an “exec”....this is a regular person with a pretty good job NOW GONE.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:49:33 AM PST
by
applpie
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Sniff, sniff. Nope. Doesn't pass the smell test. This one is made up. No, but I know people in this boat who aren't making things up and I've been there myself. Did a year selling appliances at a furniture store a couple of years ago because I got laid off in a tight job market. I didn't think I was any sort of hero, just did what needed to be done to pay the bills.
To: Scutter
his job as the security manager
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:53:57 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: Red in Blue PA
These so called exexcs now working at janitorial services sounds pretty much like media invented nonsense. Really? An exec who was highly prized is now cleaning doorways for a living? Sounds hokey. Either he was monstrously overpaid as an exec or the story is false. Execs are snatched up by other companies long before they are fired. And even if fired, they usually find good work pretty easily.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:57:53 AM PST
by
Professor_Leonide
(I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
To: Professor_Leonide
“An exec who was highly prized is now cleaning doorways for a living?”
Honestly, that sounds like something the Wall Street execs would be incapable of.
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posted on
03/02/2009 9:59:03 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
03/02/2009 10:02:14 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: chargers fan
I read the whole article, and these people are not complaining, but dealing with life.
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posted on
03/02/2009 10:03:31 AM PST
by
Patriotic1
(Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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