66 Percent of CEOs Plan to Freeze or Downsize Workforce Size

ChiefExecutive ^ | August 11, 2011

[Smokin' Joe]

How bad does the economy have to be for a friggin’ MORTICIAN to get laid off???

It has to be really dead out there, I guess.

[ngat]

Darn it. Have I grammar-policed you before? Sorry.

Because of your post, I took the time to read further into the poorly written article, and what the anonymous author actually meant was : Despite a politically and economically tumultuous start to the month of August, CEO confidence stayed steadily OPTIMISTIC, - not pessimistic.

[null and void]

Good luck finding a job that does not involve flipping burgers or stocking shelves, if you can find those.

Stocking shelves? With what?

Note the empty pallets...

[Lexinom]

I think your assessment of CEOs as greedy, unprincipled, and selfishly enraptured in their own avarice is generally true but more broadly applicable to the human condition as a whole. Successful CEOs are simply in a stronger position to bring it to fuller expression.

(Of course there are exceptional, quality CEOs as well.)

[matt04]

Think of all the jobs that were created or saved to carefully and artfully arrange all those empty pallets.

Without Obama that person might be unemployed now, just like the hundreds of workers who would be loading moving and unloading those pallets.

[One Name]

You got it! None of those federal agencies can hang their hat on an article of the Constitution authorizing their activity.

Eliminate them.

[One Name]

They may find some young citizens fighting for those jobs much as the young Irishmen once muscled their way into the American landscape...

[kearnyirish2]

“They may find some young citizens fighting for those jobs much as the young Irishmen once muscled their way into the American landscape...”

The Irish were lucky in arriving at a time when the US needed soldiers, miners and railroad laborers; the last relative of mine to come over had to serve a tour in Vietnam before being granted citizenship.

A key difference is that the Irish were legal.