From the category archives:
Here’s the great news as reported in the New York Times: “expectations for the future are improving in scattered areas…”
It’s amazing what passes for good news these days. For instance, if only 400,000 people are laid off in a month as opposed to the previous month’s five, or as opposed to the expectations, it’s somehow [...]
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I’ve been playing around with calling it Depression 2.0. Others call it the Great Recession. But Jeff Jarvis, the author of my new favorite book, “What Would Google Do,” calls it a great restructuring. You’ve got to listen to the guy. His book is fantastic, and everything he says is terrifically interesting. The book isn’t [...]
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It’s sort of a trick question. First of all, a colostomy is an operation that routes your colon to a hole in your side so that you can…well you know. There’s a bag and all that.
Anyway, according to this really interesting New York Times article, people are happier when they know the worst has already [...]
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Here’s a well-written blog that offers good practical advice for young educated professional people trying to ride out the recession. I can’t relate to it because I’m not a young professional person, and I’m not about to enroll in an MBA program or go for a law degree, and if I were 24 right now, [...]
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This site isn’t fancy, but it’s got a lot of good info on avoiding scams aimed at the laid off.
Most of these schemes are perpetrated by sleezeballs. Of course, whether or not you’re laid off, your own bank isn’t averse to scamming you. I got two bogus checks in one day from a couple banks.
One [...]
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I never really understood the whole credit crisis thing that got us into this mess, but now I do because I watched this brilliant bit. It’s 11 minutes long, but it’s brilliant in its clarity. It takes something very complex and makes it quite clear.
And very depressing.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
from Jonathan Jarvis on [...]
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Just because they caused the recession doesn’t mean the banks aren’t going to nickel and dime their victims to take advantage of it. According to the AARP bulletin, banks are happily allowing states to direct deposit your unemployment checks, and the banks are happily charging you fees to get at the money. This is done [...]
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Visit the Dead Company Club to see the amazing list of companies that no longer exist.
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According to the article in the Wall Street Journal, some people are getting way better unemployment benefits than the rest of us. They’re benefiting from a program that President Kennedy started, and President Obama just beefed up, called Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). Apparently it’s intended to help people who lost their jobs due to foreign [...]
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Here’s an article called 7 Lessons from the Meltdown. Good stuff. It’s got all the basic victims, the one losing her house, the one who lost his job and can’t find another, the one who’s deep in debt and can’t get out. Etc.
So I’m wondering. Is this a depression, a recession, a meltdown, all three, [...]
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Some people switch jobs because their jobs are killing them. Others do it because they have no choice – like several million Americans today.
Here’s a book that tells you the hows and whys of doing it for whatever reason. If you’re laid off, this just might be the time to think of yourself as [...]
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My hatred of the word “utilize” goes back to my Army days, but I’ll skip that and just put in a plug for Big Daddy Cool’s blog for the underutilized worker. The writing’s great, the posts are long, the site is fun, the attitude is good, even though he hasn’t worked in over 6 years [...]
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This is from Recession Wire, not as funny as the Unemploymentality post, but the same sort of vivid writing I love to read.
In my industry, print publishing, the wheels came off so fast that many of my colleagues were stumbling about the countryside, bruised and dazed, before they realized they had been in a train [...]
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You know, you read some bad stuff on blogs, and sometimes you read pompous moronic crap by people trying to pad their writing resumes (he resists urge to link to example), and sometimes you read stuff like this from Unemploymentality, my pick as the funniest blog in the recession blog genre.
So here we are – [...]
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Our dentist is a nice guy who tells really bad jokes, so I’m glad to hear dentists are thriving in the recession. Here’s a quote from Time.
The one guy is 63, just lost his job at a health insurer, and is afraid he’ll never find another one. The other has three kids, one in college, [...]
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