Comments for The Layoff List http://www.layofflist.org Unemployment, Economic and Political News and Opinion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on 11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think by Darryl Jamieson http://www.layofflist.org/2011/09/22/11-reasons-why-the-unemployment-crisis-is-even-worse-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-10977 Darryl Jamieson Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:13:50 +0000 http://www.layofflist.org/?p=6499#comment-10977 Great article! If you are one of those unfortunate unemployed who is considering writing your own resume you can view <a href='http://www.freeresumeexamples.net/resume-samples.asp' rel="nofollow">resume samples</a> on FreeResumeExamples.net where over 50 professional resume writers have uploaded their resume examples to view and download. Great article! If you are one of those unfortunate unemployed who is considering writing your own resume you can view resume samples on FreeResumeExamples.net where over 50 professional resume writers have uploaded their resume examples to view and download.

]]> Comment on Repeat after me: The 13-month unemployment extension does not extend benefits past 99 weeks by Mike http://www.layofflist.org/2011/01/11/repeat-after-me-the-13-month-unemployment-extension-does-not-extend-benefits-past-99-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-10651 Mike Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:35:15 +0000 http://www.layofflist.org/?p=6285#comment-10651 I've sat here and read every single post you guys have put out there. Its truly heart breaking and a little overwhelming to see good people in a bad way. I too am in this perverbial sinking ship. I started working in retail 12 years ago as a favor to my sister while I was in college. It was a part time gig, and shortly after Christmas I was promoted to full time, and then I climbed the corporate ladder so quick after that. I gave up on college and started making over 50k a year within the first year I was there. I was givent store after store, after store, fixing train wrecks for my boss with no recognition, until I was awarded breakout manager of the year back in 2003. Me, out of 1,500 store managers and I was running one of the biggest stores in the country for my company, until that one day I was let go because I was a budget cut on a piece of paper. I was a great employee that believed in servant leadership, brought every single store out of the hole they sent me to, won numerous awards, never had an employee EVER quit on me, because I was such a great boss and then BAM! My entire career was summed up on a piece of paper saying I made to much money. This was my life and I sacrificed me engagement, never having kids, never devoting my life to anything besides my job to a budget cut. That's how the ball fell in my court. From there on out I have had 3 more positions in management, and again I was dragging stores out of the mud into positive numbers, but again and again I'm looked at as a budget cut on a piece of paper. My last position my store was closed down and instead of relocating me I was replaced by someone who was willing to take half of what I was making to take over the only management position left in the area. Its been almost 99 weeks since I last worked, and being I'm a single in shape tall attractive white male with a lot of confidence, I can't seem to get a position anywhere. I've been told I am over qualified, don't have a degree (to sell cell phones) I mean really? Do I really need a degree to sell a cell phone? Let's see I've got 12 years of selling luxury items to people, and I can't sell a cell phone, because I don't have a degree? I look for a job every single day with no luck, and it takes most of the day to do this task, because so many companies aren't legit, or are looking for that elusive degree to do a task a child could do, and yet I'm not qualified. I'm a single home owner who built my house with my own to hands, because I was raised by a contractor and was taught what hard work was as a child, and I wonder if I will be able to find a position, before the bank tries to take it away from me. I eat what I can, when I can, and I often stretch food to the last morsel, before I can figure out what bill I can put off to buy food. Food has became a luxury item to me. Something we normally take forgranted, and when my fridge is full I feel like I went on some crazy shopping spree and bought everything I ever wanted. I do know what you people are going through and the stress it puts on you guys, and I do feel for all of you good people out there suffering trying to get a job to be greeted with endless hours of filing apps that will never be read, calls that will never be sent from potential employers, and feeling let down. It sucks, because what happened to the day you could walk in and go eye to eye with someone and tell them you're looking for a job and they can speak with you right then and there. Now its get back in your car and go home, fill out the app and leave us alone. It truly sickens me about how unprofessional we have gotten and how much technology has made the general public lazy. All I want is to go back to work and help people like us get back on there feet, and pass that help onto the next person in need. We as a nation fought for everything we have, and we were once the worlds super power, and now we are just some poor outsourced country that will still come and bail out any country that needs us. We need to help our own first, because these countries that we help out, would NEVER come to our aide if we needed them to. I could literally ramble for hours about what is wrong with our country, but I won't, because I'm sure I would break the soap box from standing on it to long and ranting on like a sain person with actual ideas how to fix our great nation. I will leave you people with this, and I will be done. I put my faith in GOD, the one, the only Lord and Savior. He will give us what we need and never put to much in front of us that we can't handle. He will be our calm in the storm, out light in the dark, and one true being we should be thankful to. I thank him everyday just for waking up, and I praise him when he gives me a beautiful sunset, a sunny day, the ground that I walk on, the family I have, and people that love him like me. God will always be there and I will never put anything or anyone in before him. God will get us through this troubled time and I can only hope you people are as blessed with as many beautiful things around as I am. I may be down, and out, a little weathered from this storm, but without God I am nothing. I will say a prayer for each and everyone of you in these early hours as I type this message in hopes it will give one of you, if not all of you the strength to get up, rise above these ashes like a phoenix and take back your life and demand to be heard. One voice can make all the difference, and millions working together can accomplish anything. Thank you, Mike. I’ve sat here and read every single post you guys have put out there. Its truly heart breaking and a little overwhelming to see good people in a bad way. I too am in this perverbial sinking ship. I started working in retail 12 years ago as a favor to my sister while I was in college. It was a part time gig, and shortly after Christmas I was promoted to full time, and then I climbed the corporate ladder so quick after that. I gave up on college and started making over 50k a year within the first year I was there. I was givent store after store, after store, fixing train wrecks for my boss with no recognition, until I was awarded breakout manager of the year back in 2003. Me, out of 1,500 store managers and I was running one of the biggest stores in the country for my company, until that one day I was let go because I was a budget cut on a piece of paper. I was a great employee that believed in servant leadership, brought every single store out of the hole they sent me to, won numerous awards, never had an employee EVER quit on me, because I was such a great boss and then BAM! My entire career was summed up on a piece of paper saying I made to much money. This was my life and I sacrificed me engagement, never having kids, never devoting my life to anything besides my job to a budget cut. That’s how the ball fell in my court.

From there on out I have had 3 more positions in management, and again I was dragging stores out of the mud into positive numbers, but again and again I’m looked at as a budget cut on a piece of paper. My last position my store was closed down and instead of relocating me I was replaced by someone who was willing to take half of what I was making to take over the only management position left in the area. Its been almost 99 weeks since I last worked, and being I’m a single in shape tall attractive white male with a lot of confidence, I can’t seem to get a position anywhere. I’ve been told I am over qualified, don’t have a degree (to sell cell phones) I mean really? Do I really need a degree to sell a cell phone? Let’s see I’ve got 12 years of selling luxury items to people, and I can’t sell a cell phone, because I don’t have a degree? I look for a job every single day with no luck, and it takes most of the day to do this task, because so many companies aren’t legit, or are looking for that elusive degree to do a task a child could do, and yet I’m not qualified.

I’m a single home owner who built my house with my own to hands, because I was raised by a contractor and was taught what hard work was as a child, and I wonder if I will be able to find a position, before the bank tries to take it away from me. I eat what I can, when I can, and I often stretch food to the last morsel, before I can figure out what bill I can put off to buy food. Food has became a luxury item to me. Something we normally take forgranted, and when my fridge is full I feel like I went on some crazy shopping spree and bought everything I ever wanted. I do know what you people are going through and the stress it puts on you guys, and I do feel for all of you good people out there suffering trying to get a job to be greeted with endless hours of filing apps that will never be read, calls that will never be sent from potential employers, and feeling let down. It sucks, because what happened to the day you could walk in and go eye to eye with someone and tell them you’re looking for a job and they can speak with you right then and there. Now its get back in your car and go home, fill out the app and leave us alone. It truly sickens me about how unprofessional we have gotten and how much technology has made the general public lazy. All I want is to go back to work and help people like us get back on there feet, and pass that help onto the next person in need. We as a nation fought for everything we have, and we were once the worlds super power, and now we are just some poor outsourced country that will still come and bail out any country that needs us. We need to help our own first, because these countries that we help out, would NEVER come to our aide if we needed them to. I could literally ramble for hours about what is wrong with our country, but I won’t, because I’m sure I would break the soap box from standing on it to long and ranting on like a sain person with actual ideas how to fix our great nation.

I will leave you people with this, and I will be done. I put my faith in GOD, the one, the only Lord and Savior. He will give us what we need and never put to much in front of us that we can’t handle. He will be our calm in the storm, out light in the dark, and one true being we should be thankful to. I thank him everyday just for waking up, and I praise him when he gives me a beautiful sunset, a sunny day, the ground that I walk on, the family I have, and people that love him like me. God will always be there and I will never put anything or anyone in before him. God will get us through this troubled time and I can only hope you people are as blessed with as many beautiful things around as I am. I may be down, and out, a little weathered from this storm, but without God I am nothing. I will say a prayer for each and everyone of you in these early hours as I type this message in hopes it will give one of you, if not all of you the strength to get up, rise above these ashes like a phoenix and take back your life and demand to be heard. One voice can make all the difference, and millions working together can accomplish anything.

Thank you,
Mike.

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]]> Comment on Repeat after me: The 13-month unemployment extension does not extend benefits past 99 weeks by Krissy http://www.layofflist.org/2011/01/11/repeat-after-me-the-13-month-unemployment-extension-does-not-extend-benefits-past-99-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-10395 Krissy Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:23:19 +0000 http://www.layofflist.org/?p=6285#comment-10395 I was laid off October of 2009. Woke up to a normal day for work (as I have done eachday for the past 12yrs). I'm 37yrs old, I worked for a total of 20yrs straight, 8 years @ a former Company, then 8yrs @ another Company.. ( A Brokerage Firm,CT) I was the type of Employee who never called in sick, hardly ever made mistakes, worked hard everysingle day, I was liked and very pleasant to be around and work with, some of my co-workers I saw more than my family. In a way I looked at my job as not a job I had to get up for and sit in traffic for hours, sometimes longer..but as a 2nd family. I enjoyed my job very much and that was shown in my work, my hard work for 12yrs. Then one Friday morning that all changed. The "New" Manager of the Company" was there for maybe a year. I Walked in the door, then that dreaded feeling of , "Can I talk to you in my office". I knew, that overwhelming sick, heart in the throat feeling, im sure many will know what I'm talking about. Before I knew it, the people I trusted for so many years and a new Manager sitting across from me, handing me a folder with my name on it, as the folder was handed to me, I was then hit with another blow, he didn't even know my correct name, all I thought..this one person..who doesn't know me, my work, my life or what I've contributed, has just ruined my life, and didn't even pronounce my name Correctly, wow ! Since I've applied for countless, countless jobs..from stores,Companies,Banks,Animal stores, ect.....Anything...Anything ! I had perfect credit, like I said I worked hard for 20yrs and now, my credit is gone..I cant even get an apartment or a used car, nothing ! Somethings as basic as a cell phone, Car Insurance, the UI to charge this laptop battery, food,clothes,Gas money. Eventhings I never thought twice about, like a haircut,my hair is so long so I cut it myself. Even the small "stupid" items like makeup, I mean you cant show up for a interview looking not so "Refreshed", right ??!? I could sit here and name a thousands things, but all I want is work, I want to get up like I did for those 20yrs and work, be a apart of society, workforce, to feel selfworth once again, confidence..and most of all I just want to pay my bills and establish credit once again, so I can afford an apartment, car, basic things..If your credit is affected, it becomes a domino affect. Sincerley "Me" (AKA one of the 99ers) . I was laid off October of 2009. Woke up to a normal day for work (as I have done eachday for the past 12yrs). I’m 37yrs old, I worked for a total of 20yrs straight, 8 years @ a former Company, then 8yrs @ another Company.. ( A Brokerage Firm,CT) I was the type of Employee who never called in sick, hardly ever made mistakes, worked hard everysingle day, I was liked and very pleasant to be around and work with, some of my co-workers I saw more than my family. In a way I looked at my job as not a job I had to get up for and sit in traffic for hours, sometimes longer..but as a 2nd family. I enjoyed my job very much and that was shown in my work, my hard work for 12yrs. Then one Friday morning that all changed. The “New” Manager of the Company” was there for maybe a year. I Walked in the door, then that dreaded feeling of , “Can I talk to you in my office”. I knew, that overwhelming sick, heart in the throat feeling, im sure many will know what I’m talking about. Before I knew it, the people I trusted for so many years and a new Manager sitting across from me, handing me a folder with my name on it, as the folder was handed to me, I was then hit with another blow, he didn’t even know my correct name, all I thought..this one person..who doesn’t know me, my work, my life or what I’ve contributed, has just ruined my life, and didn’t even pronounce my name Correctly, wow ! Since I’ve applied for countless, countless jobs..from stores,Companies,Banks,Animal stores, ect…..Anything…Anything ! I had perfect credit, like I said I worked hard for 20yrs and now, my credit is gone..I cant even get an apartment or a used car, nothing ! Somethings as basic as a cell phone, Car Insurance, the UI to charge this laptop battery, food,clothes,Gas money. Eventhings I never thought twice about, like a haircut,my hair is so long so I cut it myself. Even the small “stupid” items like makeup, I mean you cant show up for a interview looking not so “Refreshed”, right ??!? I could sit here and name a thousands things, but all I want is work, I want to get up like I did for those 20yrs and work, be a apart of society, workforce, to feel selfworth once again, confidence..and most of all I just want to pay my bills and establish credit once again, so I can afford an apartment, car, basic things..If your credit is affected, it becomes a domino affect. Sincerley “Me” (AKA one of the 99ers) .

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