mike@layofflist on November 30th, 2008

Mike: While most economic attention is being paid to the holiday shopping weekend, the layoff news continues to roll  in. Even if the shopping numbers come in at a decent level, it won’t stop the job loss news, which is still gathering steam. Here are a few employment stories from the last couple days. The […]

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mike@layofflist on November 29th, 2008

Mike: I hope you all had a comfortable Thanksgiving. Sorry for the late post on this shopping frenzied Black Friday for retailers. While many a store was pumping sale priced deals on everything from clothes to cars, the unemployed weren’t likely out stuffing their shopping carts full of electronics or enviable jewelry. The talking heads […]

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mike@layofflist on November 26th, 2008

Mike: With the holidays quickly approaching, the job loss news would be expected to calm a bit, but it’s known that plenty of job losses occur around the end-of-year holidays due to companies having to arrange their budgets for fiscal realities.  I hope you all have a fine Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s a sampling of the past […]

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