economic poopfest

[Squeezer]

i work for a big company which is a little sluggish right now in general (last year's financial results were released earlier today)

even more unfortunate, the product i work on is tied very closely to the housing market

home depot is that you?

[Zeebu]

i work for a big company which is a little sluggish right now in general (last year's financial results were released earlier today)

even more unfortunate, the product i work on is tied very closely to the housing market

[raizin]

My job is directly tied to boeing staying busy, and when those fucktards went on strike a few months back it really screwed us. My company had to let a few people go, and everyone else got there hours cut from 40 to 32. Keep hearing this "any day it will get busy again" im so sick of it. of an 8 hour day i work i prolly actually work 4, the other 4 is just standing around bullshiting with no work to be done.

Also my GF's work (dispaches for a plumbing company) had to cut all there hours down to 35 a week and lay off plumbers because no one wants to pay for the rediculous price of plumbing right now.


shit sucks. Im glad Money/screwston got me hooked up on downloading movies, fuck if ill pay to go out for a while

[kthx]

It hasn't really affected me because Texas has been spared from much of the economic crap that is affecting the nation. The fact that we have such a large port, a bunch of large oil companies, and other jobs that are necessities to every day life in America mean that I basically get to sit in a crisis resistant bubble. I guess one of the only problems would be a couple of auto factories that we have, but that isn't really a significant percentage of Houston's economy.

[Nycle]

I've actually profited from the crisis, I just got a new part time job at an insurance company. A lot of companies are exchanging some of their relatively expensive full time employees for 'cheap' students to save money. It's an excellent opportunity to get into a well paid job or even career, from a student point of view.

[Zeebu]

this hitting close to home with anyone here?

it is for me