Layoff day at work...

• raiderbuck

  My fiancee works in journalism. So yea...her company has been laying people off left and right. Thankfully, she's got some interviews lined up for work at more stable companies. But yea, I've had a few sleepless nights wondering how the eff we'd survive in this city on my income alone.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  raiderbuck;1654483 wrote:My fiancee works in journalism. So yea...her company has been laying people off left and right. Thankfully, she's got some interviews lined up for work at more stable companies. But yea, I've had a few sleepless nights wondering how the eff we'd survive in this city on my income alone.

  
  Things are a little messed up right now. My wife's job is somewhat secure, but it is an ongoing process, we don't know what we'd do if she got the axe. I pull my weight, but not enough to pay our mortgage, or cars.
• raiderbuck

  Manhattan Buckeye;1654485 wrote:Things are a little messed up right now. My wife's job is somewhat secure, but it is an ongoing process, we don't know what we'd do if she got the axe. I pull my weight, but not enough to pay our mortgage, or cars.

  Yea, I make enough to pay the rent, and we've got enough saved to cover monthly expenses. It's just the thought of it all being on me kinda freaks me out. My fiancee is young, but she's put in a lot of time and energy into her work and I hate to see it go to waste because a company can't figure out how to get their heads out of their asses. Luckily, my office is expanding so my job is safe for the foreseeable future.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1654485 wrote:Things are a little messed up right now. My wife's job is somewhat secure, but it is an ongoing process, we don't know what we'd do if she got the axe. I pull my weight, but not enough to pay our mortgage, or cars.

  I thought you were a lawyer?
• Classyposter58

  

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1654520 wrote:I thought you were a lawyer?

  What house and cars does he have though?
• Belly35

  

  friendfromlowry;1654465 wrote:No one cares. Speaking of uneducated, you're usually the one sounding retarded. "That there voter base"?

  Using the word "retarded" defines your maturity and intellect.
  So you equate poor spelling and grammar with being in your vernacular “stupid and retarded”. You should get off your, I’m educated and I’m superior ego trip.
  
  http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/15-famous-thinkers-who-couldnt-spell/
  
  http://pensivepages.hubpages.com/hub/Even-the-Intelligenter-People-Sometimes-Dont-Speak-That-Good-English
• friendfromlowry

  Belly35;1654525 wrote:Using the word "retarded" defines your maturity and intellect.
  So you equate poor spelling and grammar with being in your vernacular “stupid and retarded”. You should get off your, I’m educated and I’m superior ego trip.
  
  http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/15-famous-thinkers-who-couldnt-spell/
  
  http://pensivepages.hubpages.com/hub/Even-the-Intelligenter-People-Sometimes-Dont-Speak-That-Good-English

  You're the last one to tell someone to get off their high horse. Rarely can you avoid a thread without bragging about how unconventionally successful you are despite a lack of this or that. Oh and while plugging in pro-guns or anti-dems/Obama when it's almost always irrelevant.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1654520 wrote:I thought you were a lawyer?

  Which means the only job you are qualified is to be a lawyer. Otherwise, you are unemployable. I couldn't get a job at the local McDonald's without lying on my resume.
• sleeper

  

  There are plenty of jobs in DC. As long as you aren't in Ohio(or anywhere else in the country) finding work is EZ.
• QuakerOats

  When you have an administration that is anti-business, anti-capitalism, anti-growth, anti-investment, and pro-regulation, pro-taxation, pro-plaintiff's lawyers, pro-marxism .......... this is exactly what you get ....... record unemployment, record disability, record food stamps.
  
  But somehow it is the fault of a few CEO's. God the stupidity is overwhelming.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  sleeper;1654545 wrote:There are plenty of jobs in DC. As long as you aren't in Ohio(or anywhere else in the country) finding work is EZ.

  That appears to be the only metropolitan area that has grown in the last 5 years or so.
• sleeper

  

  QuakerOats;1654547 wrote:When you have an administration that is anti-business, anti-capitalism, anti-growth, anti-investment, and pro-regulation, pro-taxation, pro-plaintiff's lawyers, pro-marxism .......... this is exactly what you get ....... record unemployment, record disability, record food stamps.
  
  But somehow it is the fault of a few CEO's. God the stupidity is overwhelming.

  Thankfully we only have 2 more years left of this clown. Then we can get a real leader in the white house like Gary Johnson or the second coming of Ron Paul.
• Belly35

  

  friendfromlowry;1654533 wrote:You're the last one to tell someone to get off their high horse. Rarely can you avoid a thread without bragging about how unconventionally successful you are despite a lack of this or that. Oh and while plugging in pro-guns or anti-dems/Obama when it's almost always irrelevant.

  
  
  I’m proud of my accomplishment because unlike you I have some and I’m confident in who I am, what I have done with my life unlike you who have little to mention but lots to complain about.
  As for my pro-guns and anti-dems/Obama … what difference does it make
• thavoice

  Manhattan Buckeye;1654543 wrote:Which means the only job you are qualified is to be a lawyer. Otherwise, you are unemployable. I couldn't get a job at the local McDonald's without lying on my resume.

  Surely Sleeper could get ya in at McDonalds.
• derek bomar

  

  vball10set;1654470 wrote: Easy to say when they're not your employer.

  they'd never be my employer
• friendfromlowry

  Belly35;1654555 wrote:I’m proud of my accomplishment because unlike you I have some and I’m confident in who I am, what I have done with my life unlike you who have little to mention but lots to complain about.
  As for my pro-guns and anti-dems/Obama … what difference does it make

  No one cares.
• QuakerOats

  friendfromlowry;1654558 wrote:No one cares.

  
  And there is the problem. Actually about 45% of us really do care, while 55% do not care because they don't have to care because they are being carried by the 45%. That will change .......soon.
• Heretic

  

  Belly35;1654555 wrote:I’m proud of my accomplishment because unlike you I have some and I’m confident in who I am, what I have done with my life unlike you who have little to mention but lots to complain about.
  As for my pro-guns and anti-dems/Obama … what difference does it make

  You do realize that most people aren't receptive to the "HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF ME!!! I'M WAY BETTER THAN YOU NOBODIES!!!!!" approach, don't you?
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1654543 wrote:Which means the only job you are qualified is to be a lawyer. Otherwise, you are unemployable. I couldn't get a job at the local McDonald's without lying on my resume.

  
  So what are you doing then?
• queencitybuckeye

  QuakerOats;1654561 wrote:And there is the problem. Actually about 45% of us really do care, while 55% do not care because they don't have to care because they are being carried by the 45%. That will change .......soon.

  It won't.
• Con_Alma

  queencitybuckeye;1654569 wrote:It won't.

  agreed....at least not for a long, long time.
• Belly35

  

  Heretic;1654562 wrote:You do realize that most people aren't receptive to the "HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF ME!!! I'M WAY BETTER THAN YOU NOBODIES!!!!!" approach, don't you?

  
  
  If you consider yourself as a nobody that is your problem and you have to get over the fact that you think of yourself in that manner. I dont care who you are, you are no better that me ... we are equal
  If you can meet the standards then you will fall behind .... that just the way life is... reality
  
  To many people walk around with the I can't do, I can't make a difference, I' not good at this or that ... they are defeated before trying.. and that is a sad state of mind many people today have...
• Heretic

  

  Belly35;1654587 wrote:If you consider yourself as a nobody that is your problem and you have to get over the fact that you think of yourself in that manner. I dont care who you are, you are no better that me ... we are equal
  If you can meet the standards then you will fall behind .... that just the way life is... reality
  
  To many people walk around with the I can't do, I can't make a difference, I' not good at this or that ... they are defeated before trying.. and that is a sad state of mind many people today have...

  Which is all well and good...except for the minor detail that I don't really see people on here considering themselves nobodies. Just you telling them they're nobodies because they argue with you.
  
  It's actually kind of funny. If someone rips on your typing and grammar, you automatically jump into this "I might not type well, but unlike you I have real accomplishments!!!". ramble. Which, unless you personally know the person you're arguing with, is a judgement made without any factual or logical basis, which means you're essentially doing the same thing you're pissed at the other person for doing (determining a person's intelligence or worth solely on the words they typed on a message board).
• Manhattan Buckeye

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1654568 wrote:So what are you doing then?

  I work and hopefully my clients pay me. I have one amazing client that pretty much funds my business. I have a second one that is pretty good, community bank organization. Other than that, it is an adventure when it comes to billing.
  
  Not to take this to the politics board, but any government employee that has a pension is probably "wealthier" than most private sector employees.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1654589 wrote:I work and hopefully my clients pay me. I have one amazing client that pretty much funds my business. I have a second one that is pretty good, community bank organization. Other than that, it is an adventure when it comes to billing.
  
  Not to take this to the politics board, but any government employee that has a pension is probably "wealthier" than most private sector employees.

  You cant find a job at a firm?