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Lay Offs

My Laid-Off Life

by Avenger on February 23, 2009

This seems fairly cool, some sort of documentary for the laid off, but I’m not sure it’s actually taken off yet. I found this great quote on the site, though. I get it totally. “Now my work is finding work. I sit at home, behind my computer. When I was first laid off, I would [...]

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Laid off MBAs

by Avenger on February 23, 2009

Here you can read about some laid off MBAs in the Wall Street Journal. I hate the Wall Street Journal. I hate Wall Street, but I’ll try to rouse up some sympathy for the Laid-off MBAs. Some of them are pretty old, you know, over fifty. They’re all accomplished, and they have a lot to [...]

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Men Petting Cats All Day

by Avenger on February 17, 2009

The New York Times seems to like to publish articles about sad professional men who lose their jobs and sit around petting their cats and stroking their beards all day. At least that’s what the photos with the articles seem to imply. There’s a lot of talk about the psychological effects of layoffs, the shame [...]

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