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More than 200,000, or up to 2%, of the country's estimated 10.4 million IT workers are now jobless, according to Harris Miller, president of the Arlington, Va.-based Information Technology Association of America.

The US average is around 6% now, isn't it? And these weenies are complaining about 2% unemployment? Sheesh.

That number doesn't sound right.

We had a similar experince here where I work. For several years they couldn't even hire a single person(Manufacturing company in Silicon Valley, wages were not even close to the going rate and the working conditions are very blue collar), turn over was high. Now, we are fully staffed and every single person that left has called back in the last year looking for work.

I had several chances to leave but I entrenched myself in some mission critical stuff and expect to hang on through this downturn.

If history show anything, there will be another computer boom. Somewhere, some geeks are currently creating the next thing, and we'll be off and running again.

The US average is around 6% now, isn't it? And these weenies are complaining about 2% unemployment? Sheesh.

This 2% number is obviously false.