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not looking good.lots of lay offs,thank you,Obama.
Sarah Palin for President.she's got my Vote

not looking good.lots of lay offs,thank you,Obama.
Sarah Palin for President.she's got my Vote

I don't think Obama's to blame for the mess left by the guy before him. But let's not talk politics ;)

Since I started as a freelancer, my position has been a lot more robust. I don't depend on one employer, but I have several clients. And when I lose one, I have the others I can rely on. And there are always new opportunities around the corner. Now I never know what I'm going to do in 2 weeks, I don't get paid vacation or anything, but I've been busy for the past 3 years. And the economic crisis didn't affect me that much (but Canada has largely been spared, compared to the US).

What kind of job do you do?

2 years ago, after 24 years in the printing industry, I took the leap of faith and went into full time business for myself www.drmulligans.com . My old job which I still work about 15 hours a week is dying quickly. As is the entire printing industry. Just 5 years ago the printing business employed 10 full timers and 3 part timers. Now it's the owner and just 2 part timers totalling about 35 hours a week between us.

The only reason I am still there is that I do still get a retirement plan and I KNOW that if I left I wouldn't get even half the rate I get now.

The only reason the stock market has turned around is because companies are showing a profit after BIG layoffs. Nobody is being hired back. The only reason unemployment is going down is because people's unemployment benefits are running out and they can't re-apply. Have you noticed that foreclosures continue to rise??

Now with the so-called Stimulus Package that isn't doing anything, my grandchildren and their grandchildren will be paying for this debacle.

I sure hope the Mayans were right about 2012!!

I sure hope the Mayans were right about 2012!!

Damn, only 3 years left to break 80... :P

I don't think Obama's to blame for the mess left by the guy before him. But let's not talk politics ;)

I don't want to talk Politics. I want to talk about what a man said he was going to do. Obama knew what it looked like before he ran. He also said it would hard to turn things around. All I'm saying is nothing has turned. We are still going back ward. Nice to see he has time to watch sports and grow vegies for biggest loser.lol

I've been working for an E-commerce company out of Boston for 2 years now, (csnstores.com We dont have golf stuff yet, but i'm pushing for it!). The beginning of this year the company downscaled for the first time since it was created 7 years ago. I was only entry level at the time but shifted to the companies warehouse to handle deliveries and inventory. Since mid June, we've had a huge Spike in sales and happy to say, i worked my way to Warehouse manager from Entry level in just a bit more then a years time. I've actually positioned the warehouse pretty well, so i think i have job security based on just a few of the decisions i've made that help decrease some spending. I was without work for almost a year right after college when i was working construction and work slowed, but since starting with this company, i've felt really secure. It's very tough out there right now, but from what i can gather, business is picking up alot in sales across all markets, which is a good sign becuase to get the economy going, the public needs to spend money. the company just starting hiring Heavily to bring on 75 new Customer Service Reps. Things are looking up from waht i can tell and i just hope everyone here on stracka is getting by!

I'm a Business Analyst/Information Architect currently consulting for a large pharmaceutical (been here 6 years). So far so good. Will keep my fingers crossed.

I'm in 8th grade, I won't get laid off. I'd like to though.

Well Duckhunter I have had the same ole job for 21 years in the Chemical Mfg for the oil and gas Indus. I can say I have seen this many times, the ups and downs. Back in the late 80's when oil was at 16 dollars a bbl bad times. When we went to Iraq the first round things got bad for two years or better. The second time in Iraq not so bad but bad. Oddly enough 911 had five months shippments could not go over seas, was bad but recovered well. Now this year is starting to look better but it has very very bad. I do take all that away and think of the good times. We have had it so good for so long I'm sure we all need a wake up call, for me at least.
Our company still pays for every family members insurance, add to the 401K, bonus every quarter and countless other stuff. I wish more people could work for us. You understand it never has been the worker that has failed, its the people you work for that have failed you. We will see things come back around I hope soon. Ok stepping off my soap box.
Davy

I'm a Business Analyst/Information Architect currently consulting for a large pharmaceutical (been here 6 years). So far so good. Will keep my fingers crossed.

Information architect? Me too :)

I'm in 8th grade, I won't get laid off. I'd like to though.

Haha, wonderful :) I grew up thinking that we'd all die in a nuclear apocalypse before I'd have to find a job, so the future didn't really worry me ;)

I guess i'm lucky i do apt. maintenance they will always need someone to fix there stuff.

you must be a Dem. or live outside the USA,to think that Obama,is not to blame.always blaming the last guy,Bush..maybe Obama,can do a better job in Canada.this health care,is a joke.the man cannot keep what he promise.
and when the new President step in office ( Sarah Palin )she won't blame the last guy,she will do a better job.but lets not talk politics.
how's your golf swing? Syila
thank alot,Duckhunter,not blaming you,LOL

you must be a Dem. or live outside the USA,to think that Obama,is not to blame.always blaming the last guy,Bush..maybe Obama,can do a better job in Canada.this health care,is a joke.the man cannot keep what he promise.
and when the new President step in office ( Sarah Palin )she won't blame the last guy,she will do a better job.but lets not talk politics.
how's your golf swing? Syila
thank alot,Duckhunter,not blaming you,LOL

Dude, I'm neither Dem, nor outside the USA.. nor American for that matter... but to blame Obama for this mess is absurd. He's trying to find fixes for the situation he inherited. That's partly, not totally, his predecessor's fault. Mainly it's just the global economic/political situation he got that was totally beyond his control. Expecting him to fix the world in 9 months is a little much.

I definitely don't agree with the specific details of everything he's doing, but doing nothing wasn't an option. Give the guy time. Judge him in 4 years, or better 8, but be realistic about the situation he has to work in. Remember, even now congress is close to 50/50 and even the most right/left leaning states are 60/40.

Beyond America, largely because of the last guy in charge, there's massive resentment of the US. The Nobel prize may have been a little premature but Obama has done huge things to change global perception of the US. In the long run that's only going to help.

I have reservations about the guy, for sure, but there are no quick fixes. It isn't the Democrat's fault, or the Republican's, individually. It is what it is, and we'll get through it. These things are cyclical. We'll come out of the current situation, and at some point, probably in most of our lifetimes, we'll go right back into a similar situation.

That's how it works.

The Presidency, The Senate, The House, all controlled by the same party and nothing has been done. Who's stopping them? Oh yeah, if you don't do anything you can't do anything wrong. Controls to help protect us from having banks invest money dangerously were removed during the Clinton administration. Evidence shows rules easing during the Carter and Reagan years. The problem exceeds the boundaries of political parties. I was first laid off in 1994 after 15 years with a company. I was advised by a wise woman to acknowledge the fact that the job was what I did, it was not who I was. Good luck to all.

I'm in 8th grade, I won't get laid off. I'd like to though.

I work for a school Dis. I do cleaning and maintenance some things the schools will always need. right? 1 year ago they had to cut 16 mil. lots of people lost their jobs, there was even talk we may have to close all the schools for 6 months. Right now by end of Dec. they have to cut another 20 to 30 mil. Not sure what will be left of our schools? The kids here maybe laid off. It's sad to think there is a chance kids in the U.S. Can not go to school.

Unemployment in Rhode Island is up to 14.5%.....My sales for the year were down 2%, bu tmy profit margin dropped nearly 10%, needed to drop prices just to get orders! Thing is as a salesman you want order but as a business person you worry about who is goingto be abale to pay you! Job is stable but had to take a 20% pay cut! I have my opinions about the leadership of our great nation, but I reserve the right to keep them to myself! Politics is not a great topic with me! Lets just surfice to say that I am an American who has had enough of getting screwed by our elected officials both Dems and Repubs!

My personal opinion: No person's job is safe, we are all expendable due to one issue
We are being led by people who’s only thought is "how can I be re-elected". The issue with that is why would any person in their right mind spend millions of dollars to get a job that pays 80k a year? So you have to ask yourself, "What's the draw". There must be more money in politics than what "we" pay them.
Lobbyists line the pockets of EVERY elected official, Dem or Repub, national or local. Why would anyone vote against a bill that directly affects adversly a group that has given them millions of dollars?
If you want to fix it, make them pay for their health insurance like we all do. Remove EVERY lobbyist from capital hill, and enact laws that will imprison any person from taking money from them, including so-called "campaign contributions".
The base line issues we are trying to get through are not democratic or republican. The issue is greed. You are denied payment for medical procedures because of corporate greed. You are denied insurance because of corporate greed. The government can not make things better because of political greed. You are laid off from your job because of greed. Jobs are moved to foreign countries because of greed. Gas went over $4 per gallon because of greed.
Until we start electing people instead of politicians we will always be in a downward spiral picking up speed exponentially.

And as for Sarah Palin..... don't even get me started.

Sorry for the rant.

Hey Duck, nice post. I agree, I don't think anyones job is safe anymore unless your in the medical field in some shape or form. I'm a regional mgr. for the company I work for and I have been forced to layoff a handful of employees myself the last couple of years. But nothing was more of a eye opener than just recently I was forced to layoff one of my managers whom had been with the company for about 8 years. That was by far one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my lifetime. And now there is talk that we will be taking a pay-cut company wide from top to bottom in a few weeks with the holidays right around the corner. Its a tough deal. I'm losing more and more confidence in our President with every passing week. But on the other hand, you couldn't pay me enough to do or be in his shoes. No way!! All we can do is pray for our jobs, pray for our country, pray for our family and friends, but most important, just pray!! There's an old saying out there that I firmly believe affects millions of people. We all are just a paycheck away from being broke~~

Hey Duck, nice post. I agree, I don't think anyones job is safe anymore unless your in the medical field in some shape or form. I'm a regional mgr. for the company I work for and I have been forced to layoff a handful of employees myself the last couple of years. But nothing was more of a eye opener than just recently I was forced to layoff one of my managers whom had been with the company for about 8 years. That was by far one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my lifetime. And now there is talk that we will be taking a pay-cut company wide from top to bottom in a few weeks with the holidays right around the corner. Its a tough deal. I'm losing more and more confidence in our President with every passing week. But on the other hand, you couldn't pay me enough to do or be in his shoes. No way!! All we can do is pray for our jobs, pray for our country, pray for our family and friends, but most important, just pray!! There's an old saying out there that I firmly believe affects millions of people. We all are just a paycheck away from being broke~~

Thanks gj24, I think your right we do need to pray for many things to help us out of our down fall. Most of all I think we need to help the U.S. first right now. If you do not look out for number 1 NO ONE WILL. The one thing I think is most true about what you said is so many of us no matter how much we make are only a pay check or two from the streets. I pray God please help us all.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes? If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have
approved? If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement
plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky? If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? If George W.Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment? If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is? If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite? If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11? If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to> flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? If George W. Bush had created the position 32 or more Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved. If George W. Bush had
ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved? So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him
so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 months -- so you'll
have 3 years and 2 months to come up with an answer.

i think Obama,needs a bucket of Mulligans.

i think Obama,needs a bucket of Mulligans.

Do we have the time to wait for him to hit one in the fairway.

Badgolfergreg.....AMEN. I could not have said it better. BTW, you left one out from this week...

If George W. Bush had watched a documentary about HIMSELF on TV instead of watching the results of the voting on Tuesday, would you have called him "narcissistic"?

And while I'm on the topic, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have done more for peace in this world than Obama will ever do...the Nobel Peace Prize was purely political...nothing more nothing less. Oh yeah, and GWB liberating millions of Iraqi people from an opressive regime, that was about oil and not freedom, right...

I'm with you badgolfergreg.