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[Tom Petty]

Don't worry, Nancy Pelosi's stimulus bill is going to save our industry. I"m sitting her eyes closed and hand out and open, waiting for that ticket to lifetime security to float so gently into my hand.

This is a stimulus, bill, right?

this industry was beginning to die before you ever knew who pelosi was. what's your ****ing point?

Why so ticked off. Tom? Gear it down, man. I'm only stating what about 200 million folks are feeling right now, across party lines.

i'm not ticked off, clutch. i'm simply pointing out a fact.

pelosi had nothing to do with this. i don't see the point of drawing politics into this discussion.

So if I had blamed Bush or Cheney, you still would have had the same profane response? Why so angry? There's all kinds of stuff written on this site that goes all over the map. So what? I just don't get a kick out of writing an opinion that ties into what's being discussed here and get something akin to an FU in response.

your idea of akin is whatever you ****ing want it to be.

and this discussion has little to do with bush, either.

again, what's your point?

 

[luckyducky]

Boy, am I excited. I just noticed on here that I had caught and now passed Mel Ott on the HR list.

Geezus.

People, can we please keep this thread from getting locked?

 

[Mark2010]

this sucks. i know lots of mcclatchy folks. any word on when the layoffs will happen?

Didn't hear any details on my end. I'm just hoping anyone who's let go has enough time to land on their feet.

Think we're past that point. Nowadays, when you get let go, you land on your ass -- hard! -- and then you roll a few times, bang your head, cut your lip, scrape your knees, wrench your back and collapse face down in gravel. Then, maybe, if this recession breaks by 2010, you slowly and with great trepidation get back on your feet. And wonder if you can afford a new suit for a job interview that might never come.

Yep,that's pretty much the truth. When you get, say 200 people laid off and there's maybe 5 hiring, what are the odds?

I mean, tell me, how much sense does it make to send a resume to a place that is either 1) laying off people, 2) furloughing people, 3) filing for bankruptcy or 4) going out of business (see Seattle P-I)?

 

[Joe Williams]

this sucks. i know lots of mcclatchy folks. any word on when the layoffs will happen?

Didn't hear any details on my end. I'm just hoping anyone who's let go has enough time to land on their feet.

Think we're past that point. Nowadays, when you get let go, you land on your ass -- hard! -- and then you roll a few times, bang your head, cut your lip, scrape your knees, wrench your back and collapse face down in gravel. Then, maybe, if this recession breaks by 2010, you slowly and with great trepidation get back on your feet. And wonder if you can afford a new suit for a job interview that might never come.

Yep,that's pretty much the truth. When you get, say 200 people laid off and there's maybe 5 hiring, what are the odds?

I mean, tell me, how much sense does it make to send a resume to a place that is either 1) laying off people, 2) furloughing people, 3) filing for bankruptcy or 4) going out of business (see Seattle P-I)?

Might make sense if you can lowball them and encourage the brass to dump a higher-priced scribbler. But you'll want to stay at the bottom of the pay scale forever, just to make sure no one can do it to you.

 

[micke77]

SF_ Express....my sentiments and confessions, too....i look back on what I could have been saving and putting away and, instead, spent it on some foolish things and didn't do the proper budgeting..i could have had much more in my IRA or 401K. some of this is my undoing. and i think the vast majority of Americans, if they truly looked at themselves in the mirror, would admit that some of this can be attributed to a desire to go overboard on some things. now we're all suffering from it. i have second-guessed myself many a time as to some of the things i did financially that are now--with the current economic state of affairs--really biting me in the ass.

 

[jlee]

this sucks. i know lots of mcclatchy folks. any word on when the layoffs will happen?

Didn't hear any details on my end. I'm just hoping anyone who's let go has enough time to land on their feet.

Think we're past that point. Nowadays, when you get let go, you land on your ass -- hard! -- and then you roll a few times, bang your head, cut your lip, scrape your knees, wrench your back and collapse face down in gravel. Then, maybe, if this recession breaks by 2010, you slowly and with great trepidation get back on your feet. And wonder if you can afford a new suit for a job interview that might never come.

Yep,that's pretty much the truth. When you get, say 200 people laid off and there's maybe 5 hiring, what are the odds?

I mean, tell me, how much sense does it make to send a resume to a place that is either 1) laying off people, 2) furloughing people, 3) filing for bankruptcy or 4) going out of business (see Seattle P-I)?

Right about now, I'd consider finding another suitable income in any industry "landing on your feet." That's a tough prospect, too.

 

[clutchcargo]

I remember when I was 22, less than a year out of college, and signing up for a financial plan that included setting aside $100 a month in some sort of growth fund that paid someting like 6-8% a year. That was almost 30 years ago. I gave up less than six months into it so I could have more blow money.

I figured it out once that had I kept on doing just that same $100 a month at 6%, until the downer of the last six months, this would have been worth more than $200K or thereabouts. Not enough to retire on, but certainly a good base 15 years out from retirement age.

What a stupid I am.

 

[brettwatson]

If Sid Hartman needs $$, I'm sure his best BF Bobby Knight will be available for a bailout. Sid's been a member of the Friends of Bob club for decades, one of the plants Knight uses when he wants to get messages out. Surprised he didn't use Sid for his Georgia trial ballooon. But then he had Fisher in Atlanta to do his dirty work on that one.

 

[Mark2010]

I remember when I was 22, less than a year out of college, and signing up for a financial plan that included setting aside $100 a month in some sort of growth fund that paid someting like 6-8% a year. That was almost 30 years ago. I gave up less than six months into it so I could have more blow money.

I figured it out once that had I kept on doing just that same $100 a month at 6%, until the downer of the last six months, this would have been worth more than $200K or thereabouts. Not enough to retire on, but certainly a good base 15 years out from retirement age.

What a stupid I am.

You certainly aren't alone. Someone titled it "the tyranny of the urgent". It takes more self-discipline than most of us have to deny ourselves that vacation, newer car, electronic toy or whatever in favor of saving for something decades down the road.

But, as a wise-ass former colleague said upon reading a story of a man killed in his 20s, "that's one retirement plan that won't see the light of day."

 

[deskslave]

If Sid Hartman needs $$, I'm sure his best BF Bobby Knight will be available for a bailout. Sid's been a member of the Friends of Bob club for decades, one of the plants Knight uses when he wants to get messages out. Surprised he didn't use Sid for his Georgia trial ballooon. But then he had Fisher in Atlanta to do his dirty work on that one.

Bisher.