The reason I started this blog was to highlight the employment picture and to list smaller layoff announcements that don’t get the attention of main stream media. There is a great deal of scattered job loss information, but I try to gather that information and present it in a manner that is concise and, hopefully, informative.
My name is Mike and I live in upstate NY, an area which hasn’t seen the financial destruction of housing and job loss that many other parts of the country have witnessed, yet the economic picture here is not rosy by any means. I have spent the last 20 years as a Quality Control Manager for a large environmental remediation firm and then as a Documentation Analyst for a large manufacturing operation. I have a little extra time to dedicate to this blog, since I am a 1099 and finished up a long term project a few months ago.
I hope to grow this site into a one-stop location for job information. That may take some time, since this is a one-person operation currently.
If you or your company need a technical writer, please feel free to contact me for further information on how I can be of assistance.
If you have any comments or suggestions on how The Layoff List can better serve you, please contact me at Mike (at) layofflist.org
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hi, i’ve just linked to your blog on ours at http://fsn.typepad.com/blog/ because i think it’s a fascinating site and a real sign of the times that it even exists!
keep up the good work.
I see that you are having the same problems with this theme that I am. The column’s break and the right one goes underneath the left.. I seem to “fix” it when I uninstall a few of the plug ins.. thought maybe my twitter feed was messing it up so I removed, it seemed to work but now “broke” again on firefox but looks fine on safari. I really LOVE this theme and I don’t want to have to change but this is really frustrating to me as I”m sure it is to you! Let me know if you figure out a fix.
Michael,
Thank you for being a fellow reporter who is taking the issue of longer term UI seriously. It’s overwhelmingly heartbreaking to hear the stories some of the jobless 99′ers can tell.
hi michael,
i live in so cal (long beach, ca to be exact) and am 6 months into my unemployment and when I first started hearing from friends a few weeks back about their potential termination of benefits (little did I know I would soon be one of those people as well), I immediately went on line to begin researching and one of the best sites I came across was your examiner piece. You helped me with valuable, easy to understand information and that supported me with contacting approx 15 different politicians in ca govt, white house and congress to address this matter.
I just wanted to say thank you for your excellent information and for the wonderful stuff you are doing. One of these days I will definitely make a donation to this website as your doing Americans a great service!
With much appreciation,
Michelle M
This is a disgrace. Have you opened the newspaper lately, inbetween your recess sessions, or your fancy lunches. If you were in our shoes it might be a different story. I think your all full of crap.
Wonderful thing you are doing here, Mike. You are to be commended for presenting these very real and human stories that make up the numbers we read about as well as presenting the facts concerning unemployment and the plight of the unemployed. The situation is truly heart-breaking and a very sad commentary on our values, particularly the values of those who oppose or stall the passage of legislation that would ease the desperation of all these hard-working people. Thank you and please keep doing what you’re doing here.
Hey Mike you really know your stuff! If I ever become a lottery winner I’m hiring you for an idea I have for a mens support group, until then thanks for everything!! God Bless!!