economic poopfest

[Eric is God]

Research In Motion is still going strong. At a time when AT&T, Sprint, Apple, Microsoft and other big tech companies are laying off thousands, I haven't heard of a single layoff and still over 1,000 open job postings on our website. After 2 years here my team has gone from 2 people to 12, with 4 job recs still open for subscriber and churn analysts.

[Foreign]

I work at a small software development company (about 15-20 people total) with a large client base (well over 2000 clients). About 10% of our clients went out of business in the last year, but we aren't really struggling to the point where people are being fired. On the contrary, people are still getting their annual salary increases and our newer products are seeing a period of growth despite the economic downturn in the past year (mostly because we specialize in tax/payroll solutions). I'm not worried about my job in the least, since the product I work on handled about 1.5 million W-2s for our clients this year-end.

[pascone]

government job=i don't care about this "economic crisis"

[Cops]

you guys realize that most refineries have been losing serious money over the past few months, right

its like when you get your texas driver's license they hand you a case of their own special kool-aid

post of the year

[Cops]

just won $140 at roulette, economically I'm looking better than I did yesterday.

[paradise!]

u suck

classy as usual, money

[Money]

u suck

[paradise!]

you just dont grasp very much...

as a whole, cat is down. in my facility, certain areas are down. scrapers (what i was in) were down bad due to the housing market.

trucks and large mining trucks in particular are still booked up for the next 18 months or so (that means theyve already sold 18 months worth fo trucks, they just have to build them now)

so please, just shut the fuck up. yes cat is taking a hit, but they have over 100,000 people still (had over 120k, but 20k got the boot). and, contract people are the first to go, since youre not in the whole real world, i would assume you dont know that.


we had another recession a few years back (right around 2002) where cat was hurting as well. they had layoffs then, then rehired and was right back in a couple years.

please para, just shut the fuck up if you dont understand it. feel free to ask a question if you want to know how it works

lol. I'm amazed how you can tell us one sentence, and expect us to know everything else? You really could have done better than to say "only some of it is down".

I've asked plenty of questions. Plenty. I asked you directly what else you guys do besides construction and road maintenance, and you give me jaklsklfjklj23. The only thing i've been doing in this thread is asking questions about CAT. Money was the closest one to giving me an answer (which was prolly wrong, dumbfuck).

to what was said earlier, Sorry about that.

[DankNuggets]

so... anyone in need of a mechanical engineer with two and a half years experience?

try looking into some power companies, i know they're starting to plan and build new nuclear reactors all over the country. They'll definitely need ME's, but idk what kind of experience they'd want, or if it's something that's even available in your region. (they're trying to build like 4 here)

[DankNuggets]

Maybe so Pearl Jam...

In December, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 1 state and
the District of Columbia, decreased in 48 states, and was unchanged
in 1 state (Oklahoma). The only over-the-month increases in the level
of employment were recorded in Louisiana (+3,700 or +0.2 percent) and
the District of Columbia (+100 or less than +0.1 percent). The largest
over-the-month decrease in the level of employment was reported in
California (-78,200), followed by Michigan (-59,000), New York (-54,000),
Illinois (-36,000), Indiana (-35,300), and North Carolina (-34,900).
Idaho (-1.6 percent) experienced the largest over-the-month percentage
decrease in employment, followed by Michigan (-1.4 percent), Hawaii and
Indiana (-1.2 percent each), and North Carolina and New Hampshire (-0.9
percent each). Over the year, nonfarm employment increased in 8 states
and the District of Columbia and decreased in 42 states. Wyoming (+2.2
percent) reported the largest over-the-year percentage increase in em-
ployment, followed by Texas (+1.5 percent), Oklahoma (+1.0 percent),
Alaska (+0.9 percent), and South Dakota (+0.8 percent). The largest
over-the-year percentage decrease in employment was reported in Rhode
Island (-4.5 percent), followed by Arizona and Idaho (-4.3 percent each),
Michigan (-4.1 percent), and Indiana (-3.7 percent).


Funny, all the conservative states with lower taxes seem to be having a better time coping with this huge economic problem.

funny, even after reading through that large, unreadible block of text, i still don't see how you came up with those conclusions.

pretty sure those bold states are conservative. but then again you have an atypical definition for conservative.

in south carolina, a conservative staple, we're hovering just under 10% unemployement. we started the year at 6.1%, so we've gone (-3.9%) as well. That's on top of a (-1.1%) from nov. to dec. that beats our "liberal" neighbors NC.

and here's an actual link to back up my numbers. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9738859

[DUMBRIT!]

10% of our workforce was cut last week. I work in the advertising/marketing industry and we've been hit quite hard.
I work on online marketing which is holding up better than offline marketing though

-DB!

[Money]

Ah yes, of course of course, I should automatically know exactly what CAT does and how they do it. Just shut the fuck up, CAT specializes in construction/highways,roads,etc, go suck some huge ass gorilla balls. Sweet mother mary catherine of josephine.

How the hell can you say I'm wrong, CAT was even mentioned on CNN about how bad they are goddamn doing. I don't understand how you and zeebu can argue that "we're doin peachy, just bad in some areas." The fuck is that? If CNN went out of their way to list CAT as a company that is in trouble then...I got this itching feeling that it could possibly mean that the company is in some goddamn trouble.

I really must be missing something here, if zeebu works for them and says only a part of them is doing bad, then wtf, lead financial analyst of caterpillar.

u suck

[Doc Flabby]

I've had less time for subspace as you guys may have noticed

[Zeebu]

Ah yes, of course of course, I should automatically know exactly what CAT does and how they do it. Just shut the fuck up, CAT specializes in construction/highways,roads,etc, go suck some huge ass gorilla balls. Sweet mother mary catherine of josephine.

How the hell can you say I'm wrong, CAT was even mentioned on CNN about how bad they are goddamn doing. I don't understand how you and zeebu can argue that "we're doin peachy, just bad in some areas." The fuck is that? If CNN went out of their way to list CAT as a company that is in trouble then...I got this itching feeling that it could possibly mean that the company is in some goddamn trouble.

I really must be missing something here, if zeebu works for them and says only a part of them is doing bad, then wtf, lead financial analyst of caterpillar.

you just dont grasp very much...

as a whole, cat is down. in my facility, certain areas are down. scrapers (what i was in) were down bad due to the housing market.

trucks and large mining trucks in particular are still booked up for the next 18 months or so (that means theyve already sold 18 months worth fo trucks, they just have to build them now)

so please, just shut the fuck up. yes cat is taking a hit, but they have over 100,000 people still (had over 120k, but 20k got the boot). and, contract people are the first to go, since youre not in the whole real world, i would assume you dont know that.



we had another recession a few years back (right around 2002) where cat was hurting as well. they had layoffs then, then rehired and was right back in a couple years.

please para, just shut the fuck up if you dont understand it. feel free to ask a question if you want to know how it works

[kthx]

Maybe so Pearl Jam...

In December, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 1 state and
the District of Columbia, decreased in 48 states, and was unchanged
in 1 state (Oklahoma). The only over-the-month increases in the level
of employment were recorded in Louisiana (+3,700 or +0.2 percent) and
the District of Columbia (+100 or less than +0.1 percent). The largest
over-the-month decrease in the level of employment was reported in
California (-78,200), followed by Michigan (-59,000), New York (-54,000),
Illinois (-36,000), Indiana (-35,300), and North Carolina (-34,900).
Idaho (-1.6 percent) experienced the largest over-the-month percentage
decrease in employment, followed by Michigan (-1.4 percent), Hawaii and
Indiana (-1.2 percent each), and North Carolina and New Hampshire (-0.9
percent each). Over the year, nonfarm employment increased in 8 states
and the District of Columbia and decreased in 42 states. Wyoming (+2.2
percent) reported the largest over-the-year percentage increase in em-
ployment, followed by Texas (+1.5 percent), Oklahoma (+1.0 percent),
Alaska (+0.9 percent), and South Dakota (+0.8 percent). The largest
over-the-year percentage decrease in employment was reported in Rhode
Island (-4.5 percent), followed by Arizona and Idaho (-4.3 percent each),
Michigan (-4.1 percent), and Indiana (-3.7 percent).


Funny, all the conservative states with lower taxes seem to be having a better time coping with this huge economic problem.