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(Yahoo)   The story: After four straight years of growth, employment figures dipped slightly last month. The headline: "EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN PINK SLIP BLIZZARD." In related news, Pink Slip Blizzard would be a great band name   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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real shaman
2008-02-04 6:32:15 PM  
You're not suggesting that the American free press resorts to fear mongering, are you?
 
superbeerchan
2008-02-04 6:40:28 PM  
And here I thought that Activision/Vivendi/Blizzard were hiring:

Blizzard Jobs!
 
Kyosuke
2008-02-04 6:42:15 PM  
In related news, Pink Slip Blizzard would be a great band name


Not if you want to get any gigs that pay well.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2008-02-04 7:15:48 PM  
BRING BACK PINK LADY AND JEFF!
 
Boritom
2008-02-04 7:33:43 PM  
brap: BRING BACK PINK LADY AND JEFF FLOYD!

Fixed.
 
youshallhaveeverbeen
2008-02-04 7:37:23 PM  
"In related news, Pink Slip Sock Blizzard would be a great band name"

FTFY
 
skinink [OhFark]
2008-02-04 7:38:45 PM  
"In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession."


This is what gets me. All these economy experts out there, and they can't tell us if we're in a recession, or if we are out of it.


And men might not panic so much if it were a pink lip blizzard.
 
masterj0n3z
2008-02-04 7:38:50 PM  
In related news, Pink Slip Blizzard would be a great band name



Or a tasty treat from DQ that is a good source of dietary fiber!
 
hotter than the ads
2008-02-04 7:38:56 PM  
Boritom: brap: BRING SEXY BACK PINK LADY AND JEFF FLOYD!

Fixed.

Fixed2.
 
bmihura
2008-02-04 7:39:13 PM  
I'd prefer some job cuts.

Even total losers are getting jobs in my industry, and that's not good for anybody.
 
clevershark
2008-02-04 7:40:43 PM  
I can't claim to be an expert, but in the past week both my immediate manager and a friend of mine who used to be a coworker got laid off, in his case for the second time in 4 months. They're both in the Northeastern US.

Obviously it's anecdotal evidence, it's only two people, and their loss of jobs won't even be recorded until the end of the month anyway, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to buy into the "everything is peachy" polyanna view of the economy.
 
bugmn99
2008-02-04 7:41:12 PM  
Punk Slut Buzzard, anyone?
 
firefly212
2008-02-04 7:44:43 PM  
The problem is, given the way our population and economies work... you can't just be growing, you need to be growing at a certain rate, or relative to everything else, you're falling behind. Yes, the retarded kid in the class is learning, but he's still just getting farther behind every day that passes.

/slashies can fix it
\\but not to many
///slashy inflation is real
 
snuff3r
2008-02-04 7:44:57 PM  
bugmn99: Punk Slut Buzzard, anyone?

Isn't that a Homer Hudson flavour?
 
dwalder
2008-02-04 7:46:30 PM  
I think it would make a better dessert name for binge eating.
 
Inbredpoet
2008-02-04 7:46:33 PM  
superbeerchan: And here I thought that Activision/Vivendi/Blizzard were hiring:

Blizzard Jobs!

I read this as something slightly more NSFW...

/Not in a Recession Proof Job, but Recession Resistant...
//When times are good, people want to drink, when times are bad, people really want to drink
///I fit into that category, I think I'll have a drink...
 
buzzvert
2008-02-04 7:46:33 PM  
Dave Barry is suing this thread for copyright infringment, section 51 paragraph 4a entitled "jokes beaten more than dead horses".
 
buzzvert
2008-02-04 7:47:33 PM  
wooo. simulpost.
 
Weasel3322
2008-02-04 7:47:34 PM  
youshallhaveeverbeen: "In related news, Pink Slip Sock Blizzard would be a great band name"

i came in here to say that
 
Noam Chimpsky
2008-02-04 7:53:17 PM  
Does this mean we can send the illegal aliens back home now to free up those jobs?
 
Fark Master Flex
2008-02-04 7:55:09 PM  
superbeerchan: And here I thought that Activision/Vivendi/Blizzard were hiring:

Blizzard Jobs!

The first thing I thought of was this.
 
LeafyGreens
2008-02-04 7:57:18 PM  
Did somebody say Blizzard?

FOR THE HORDE!
 
Shrinkwrap
2008-02-04 7:57:18 PM  
bmihura: I'd prefer some job cuts.

Even total losers are getting jobs in my industry, and that's not good for anybody.

What's your industry? I need a job, and I fit the loser criteria.
 
redshoejess
2008-02-04 7:58:09 PM  
Good call, subby. "Pink Slip Blizzard" will be added to my list.
 
chaddsfarkprefect
2008-02-04 7:58:19 PM  
True, Subby, but I am one of those surviving the blizzard so it still sucks to be me, the minority.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2008-02-04 7:58:41 PM  
The McJobs that replaced all the tech jobs that this administration outsourced has run dry? Had to happen sometime I guess.
 
phule
2008-02-04 8:00:58 PM  
Six of us got our pink slips today... Pretty blizzardy here on my end.
 
TXCROWE
2008-02-04 8:05:07 PM  
DELL is laying off plenty.
 
algorhythm and blues
2008-02-04 8:06:48 PM  
I came in here to say Pink Slip.

/done and done, I see
 
twfeline
2008-02-04 8:07:24 PM  
I disagree with Subby. I think "Rock Bottom Remainders" is a better name for a rock band.
 
proteus_b
2008-02-04 8:13:09 PM  
first they came for those who procrastinated 3 hours a day, and we said nothing, because we moved on to another link.
 
AtomicPenguin
2008-02-04 8:13:40 PM  
Get used to it, it's an election year.
 
yotta
2008-02-04 8:13:50 PM  
Quick, let's give some more money to the rich guys!
 
DrVoice
2008-02-04 8:14:17 PM  
skinink: "In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession."
This is what gets me. All these economy experts out there, and they can't tell us if we're in a recession, or if we are out of it.
And men might not panic so much if it were a pink lip blizzard.

The problem with that is that, officially, you can't tell that you're in a recession until after it has already happened. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, so you'll be six months into one before you can officially say that, yes, one is going on.

Hence the weasel words, I bet.
 
beerbaron
2008-02-04 8:15:24 PM  
You were expecting the MSM to play up the good and play down the bad economic news in an election year with a Republican incumbent? If so, you haven't been paying attention.

1980: Reagan elected.

All through the 80's were story after story of the "homeless".

1992: Clinton elected. If you were watching the MSM you would think the homeless problem had been solved. Nary a peep about them for two full terms.

2000: Bush elected. Stories about the homeless return to our newspapers and airwaves!

The MSM. They can disappear thousands of people for eight years. Don't fark with them.
 
redsquid
2008-02-04 8:17:27 PM  
Times are tighter then a mormon girl! I've been looking for 3 monthes and can't find work. Not just respectable work- any work. The shiat jobs won't hire me because they think (rightly so) that I'll jump ship as soon as a better offer comes along, and the jobs in my field are getting tons of replies so there's always someone more qualified. It seems the medical field is the only thing going right now.
/going down to the community college
//gonna learn how to read x-rays
 
Grey Street
2008-02-04 8:18:34 PM  
During freshman year of college, my roommate and I spent the better part of the year coming up with awesome band names, despite the fact that neither of us played an instrument.

Pink Slip Pileup, Deadbeat Debauchery, and The Frisbee Aftermath were our favorites.
 
kilgorn
2008-02-04 8:19:08 PM  
The American press has no idea what the word objective means

/agenda driven
//leftist
///socialist

They no longer expose, they "go with the flow"

/useless bastards
 
Smiths
2008-02-04 8:25:56 PM  
As someone who resigned from his job last month after discovering evidence of looming pink slip plans, I'm getting a kick out of these replies......

I made myself sad.
 
Krusty_the_Barbarian
2008-02-04 8:31:16 PM  
yotta: Quick, let's give some more money to the rich guys!

That would work despite your sarcasm, when was the last time you received a paycheck from a poor person, or even a middle class one?
 
beerbaron
2008-02-04 8:34:40 PM  
spamdogbeerbaron, perhaps it had more to do with the policies of Reagan vs. Clinton?As you are in Australia, I'll cut you some slack and explain it to you.

There have always been "homeless" in this country, as least as long as I have been alive, and much before, I am sure.

We just used different terminology. We called them "bums", "bindlestiffs" or just plain old "hobos". The place where they lived was not called an "encampment" we called it "skid row".

Then teh EEEEEEVIL Reagan got elected and they needed to pile on. Some consultant, opinion maker, or think tank came up with this whole "homeless" crisis out of whole cloth, complete with new terminology.

There were "homeless" before Reagan, there were "homeless" after Reagan, there are "homeless" today. Not one president has done a tinker's damn about it aside from paying lip service.

In short, another fake crisis, displayed when expedient. Just like the phony economic bad news. Let me ask you, if the economy is so bad, how come people that know and have been correct in the past, like Bob Brinker, just aren't seeing it?

FYI, the Reagan years marked a time of unprecedented growth and prosperity, a time when the poor and in particular minorities were uplifted economically like never before in our history, but if you watched the MSM here, you would never believe it, as many still do not.

But numbers don't lie, so I'll stick with those. They help me beat the stupid folks in the Stock Market, and vote for the right person come election time.

The MSM is powerful. The can practically talk us into a recession, just like Jimmy Carter did. There's your real evil.
 
A Day Older than Yesterday
2008-02-04 8:35:44 PM  
spamdog"Four straight years of growth" why do I not believe this?

Because you've been listening to the old media.
 
Bacontastesgood
2008-02-04 8:39:44 PM  
It's called an inflection point. If you don't think the next year or two will suck on the job market, then you aren't paying attention.
 
swaxhog
2008-02-04 8:40:02 PM  
skinink

"In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession."


This is what gets me. All these economy experts out there, and they can't tell us if we're in a recession, or if we are out of it.


And men might not panic so much if it were a pink lip blizzard.

It's the same bs as when the stock market goes up everyweek for 3 years and then one day it drops. Instead panic, end of the western world type news. Two days later, it's already regained its loss and is climbing again and a few people (probably in the news field) became filthy rich off it.
 
MooseUpNorth
2008-02-04 8:40:20 PM  
spamdog: "Four straight years of growth" why do I not believe this?

Oh, it grew. The same way most salaries have tended to "grow". Well below inflation. CEOs with insane salaries raised the salary average. Everybody else lost ground.

... The same way unemployment went steadily down, because they simply stop counting unemployed people after they were unable to find work for a while...

The population growth of your country was well ahead of your job growth. Last I checked (about 8 months ago), Bush had just about a perfect record. Of fail.
 
beerbaron
2008-02-04 8:40:25 PM  
A Day Older than Yesterday: Because you've been listening to the old media.

Oh, snap!
 
hornblowerfan
2008-02-04 8:40:44 PM  
Yup. The place I work laid off 40 in January and about 26 in December. We have only 500 employees...
 
Lamune_Baba
2008-02-04 8:42:06 PM  
spamdog: "Four straight years of growth" why do I not believe this?

There has been plenty of growth in the last few years.
Just not for you.

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/shamelessly stolen from another thread
//always loves a good graph
///get back to work, peasants!
 
misteree
2008-02-04 8:42:33 PM  
FTFA: The country hadn't seen such a nationwide job loss since 2003, when employers were still struggling to recover from the last previous recession.

nobody else noticed this?
 
Nightmaretony
2008-02-04 8:43:40 PM  
Boritom: brap: BRING SEXY SEX BACK PINK LADY AND JEFF FLOYD!


FTFY
 
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