Posted on 04/07/2024 11:02:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Tens of thousands of Americans have been made redundant at large companies this year. according to Warn Tracker, a website that tracks upcoming layoffs based on WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988) notices.
The WARN Act mandates that employers conducting large-scale layoffs or closures notify employees as well as state government officials of job losses at least 60 days in advance. WARN notices must be served by companies that have 100 or more full-time employees or 100 or more employees who, in aggregate, work at least 4,000 hours per week, excluding overtime.
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My dad worked for Humble oil company/Exxon from 1958 to 1989.
When the bottom dropped out in ‘83 he had to take a big paycut to keep his job.
There was a joke going around.
The difference between a West Texas oilman and a pidgeon was that the pidgeon could make a deposit on a new car.
Yep, no surprise.
What a dump
Your to kind it’s more like a hot out house and getting worse by the day.
Civility is in a slow death event.
You don’t need collage to be a pharmacist, that’s racist!
My newcomer friend Miguel has his own pharmacy set behind 7/11
It’s right next to the dumpster. He’s undocumented.
Congratulations! I’m glad you laned on your feet. That’s a hell of a course load.
*** 1) 75% of Americans feel ‘better’ about their coming finances this year now ***
Wow! He’s not talking with anybody I know. Even the die-hard Democrats I know are complaining about feeling poorly about the coming year and their finances.
They’re just gas-lighting people with this nonsense.
My son is in a similar situation.
I’m sorry to hear this. I fear the layoff numbers are only going to get worse.
BTTT!!!
What incentive does any company have? They can pay people off, get a bailout, then get federal dollars for hiring “asylum seekers”. Diversity pays government cash.
My company laid off 200 last week including half the peeps in my department. I had seniority and was OK this round. It’s ugly out here.
Good for you. When I was working, one company grew at a great rate for ten years, then shrank for the next ten. There were layoff rounds every six months to a year. That was horribly demoralizing wondering if you were going to get it next. At the first round of layoffs, there were generous “early retirement” benefits based on age and years of service, but I was way too young to meet the magic number.
Our daughter got laid off a couple weeks ago and was given a verbal offer for a new position on Friday with the formal written offer coming tomorrow. So there are always companies hiring in the worst of times.
Interesting story and tag line. I empathize. I’m biomed engineer/CV physiologist/biophysicist. Friends from high school were Caltech geoengineers who migrated to N. Dakota. (one married an attorney so he’s comfortable)
I quite working in 1996 but I know what your thread of fate entailed. Gave up flying (mostly ‘cause of vision and work committments - don’t have pic of Cessna 340 in source for freerepublic) I’m ornery. Grew up farming in ND. Then mining on ‘duh range’ in MN. I’ll survive because parents installed that in us. But I worry about my god and great god-children.
To get back to the reasons for the post - High Flight
by J G Magee
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;”
and - despite growing up in MN/WI I never learned to water ski. At age 35 two friends - a pharmacist and an osteo-surgeon both at Brooks Army) had me fly to TX. They had me, sore and bitching, barefoot and on slalom in 4 days. The pharmacist was my CFII and is probably now retired from SW Air.
My dad had a painting with that poem written on it.
I know.
Two IT workers in my circle from church just lost jobs - neither saw it coming; something weird is going on in that industry; I’m retired now, but 5 years ago we couldn’t hire enough IT workers
That's a British phrase, FWIW.
-PJ
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