Comments on: Very Sad News

By: kim

kim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:41:58 +0000

How sad.
I do agree that sadly we are more than likely going to see more stories like this. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

By: Jeri

Jeri — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:36:26 +0000

Holy, I’m very glad you have green card in hand and I hope next month’s news is good news for you. My BIL went to work for Boeing last week – on the operations side, not the manufacturing side – so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for him as well.

By: Holy

Holy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:12:32 +0000

I cornered a Seattle Times columnist (who shall remain nameless) last night at a school concert and said you know, can you tell the powers that be to lay off the depressing headlines – no wonder people are tuning out and away from mainstream media – they could be a tad more creative and use their communication power more altruistically in these depressing times…they serve only to fuel the anxiety…hence you have people jumping off of buildings. He mumbled something about, well that’s what the news is…and I thought no, that’s not what the real news is….

And in the case of Boeing, if you read the fine-print – the 10,000 layoff isn’t even a local layoff – we’re talking about an incremental 500 beyond the original 4,500 but you really have to look to read that…it pisses me off.

I know a couple that were laid off and of course, we have face a similar possible plight next month but thank freakin’ God all my extreme anti-Bush blogging didn’t factor into our green card application because it finally came through – got word yesterday. So that’s a huge sigh of relief for us – it means not having to potentially up and move within a few weeks – and being able to jump ship to another employer if needed instead of playing the temp visa game.

By: MWT

MWT — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:10:01 +0000

Hrm.

By: Jeri

Jeri — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:53:34 +0000

Anne – I did see that story, which was awful. As Vince said, I don’t think this will be the last of them, and it’s sad – there is emergency assistance out there.

By: Anne C.

Anne C. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:31 +0000

I'm sure you heard about the fellow who killed himself and his family after being fired.

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:39:08 +0000

Sadly, I suspect this will not be the last of these stories.

By: Janiece

Janiece — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:18:36 +0000

I’m trying to remain hopeful by trying to determine what I want to do in response to the President’s call to service.

It doesn’t fix everything, but it helps.

By: mattw

mattw — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:12:59 +0000

That’s terrible.

By: Tania

Tania — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:56:48 +0000

Oh no. That’s awful. I have lots of friends that are Microserfs and contractors for M$. This is just awful awful awful.