The Jobless and Less Layoff Tracker roared past the half million mark yesterday, landing at 548,549 announced layoffs. This is an exciting moment in the short history of my blog and the long history of our country. And by exciting, I mean absolutely terrifying. It seems like only four months ago I was being laid off, [...]
Category Archives: Layoffs
Everybody gets fired
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
We’ve all been there, some of us many times. My wife and I have close to 500 selections on our Netflix list, which we recently discovered is the limit. It’s not that we’re movie buffs so much as we like to keep track of things. So when one of us discovers something, it goes on [...]
Layoffs from the boss’s perspective
Sunday, February 1, 2009
As an expert in layoff-ology and a layoff victim many times over, I have difficulty empathizing with the people doing the layoffs. But I’ve never been in their position, nor frankly thought much about their plight. I’m usually too busy saying goodbye to co-workers and packing up my stuff to worry about my boss and [...]
Want job security? Sell fruit in Manhattan
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The fruit guy has more job security than I ever did. I’ve been laid off and unemployed 4 times in 8 years, but he’s still selling fruit on the same corner.
Jobless and more
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Norm Elrod’s Jobless and Less blog is mentioned in an article on Ragan.com. His blog about layoffs and unemployment is on the cutting edge it would seem…
Toy story: the recession edition
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Watching a toy store close from my bedroom window
Without football, unemployment gets a little harder
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
A grateful fan’s lament that his team’s season is over
Taking stock of your career, the kind of stock that’s still worth something
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Two questions to ask yourself when laid off
Unemployment – opportunity or limitation?
Friday, December 12, 2008
Why a layoff is both an opportunity and a limitation