me first. With the economy and the talk of being laid off, who else is there?

11/11/2008 8:11:55 AM

apparently 40,000 USPS workers

11/11/2008 8:22:00 AM

you can go be a police officer. apparently raleigh has a major shortage.

Quote :

"The Durham Police Department has 31 positions open"

damn

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 8:26 AM. Reason : ]

11/11/2008 8:25:41 AM

^ I want to live, not get shot.

11/11/2008 8:29:18 AM

<--------

signed.

11/11/2008 8:34:53 AM

^^ cause a diamond specialist would be in the line of fire all the time

11/11/2008 8:35:50 AM

I'll know in a week.
Layoffs on the way

11/11/2008 8:37:41 AM

I hear RPD has a shortage of cops, so now would be a great time to temporarily sell narcotics.

11/11/2008 8:39:20 AM

you've never seen me with a weapon

11/11/2008 8:48:01 AM

i can get you a job as a wafer fabricator, but you have to be a middle school dropout

11/11/2008 11:02:17 AM

what kind of wafers are we talkin here

semiconductor or nilla

11/11/2008 11:02:52 AM

i suspect i'm good...but i hate my job so much that i'm going to find something else

you can have this one, if you want

11/11/2008 11:03:37 AM

its been about 2 weeks now.

thank god for severance.

11/11/2008 11:04:13 AM

^^what do you do?

11/11/2008 11:07:36 AM

hahaha it would be awesome to work on at the nilla wafer factory wouldnt it

11/11/2008 11:08:24 AM

^^ at the job i hate, i'm an application developer in php and coldfusion

i like the work, i hate the people and bureaucracy

i'm going back to consulting so i can travel again...this 40hrs/week in an office crap is for the birds

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM. Reason : arrows]

11/11/2008 11:12:08 AM

I'd probably get fired the first day cause there wouldn't be any wafers left.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM. Reason : ]

11/11/2008 11:13:00 AM

holla

11/11/2008 11:15:05 AM

i picked up a package of these things last week... beside the orange peanut butter crackers. they were called NEKOT

i've bought a pack like every day since then. i wanna work there

11/11/2008 11:15:37 AM

Unemployed here

11/12/2008 1:09:19 AM

Quote :

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Lovely

Dear Candidate,

We are not going to hire you but please fill out loads of crap for this new service we are trying to get off the ground and eventually sell.

Thanks,
Prospective Employer

11/12/2008 5:00:31 PM

i think i'm secure. i've made myself pretty indispensable during the last 7 months. the university is looking at a 5% budget cut ($25 million) and there's a hiring freeze. but my boss loves me and can't function without me.

11/12/2008 5:05:28 PM

Get a job you slackers!

11/12/2008 5:05:32 PM

Quote :

"me first. With the economy and the talk of being laid off, who else is there?"

TELL THE JANITOR TO HOOK YOU UP WITH A TOILET SCRUBBING JOB OVER THERE AT DUKE SON!

11/12/2008 5:06:18 PM

Quote :

"i've made myself pretty indispensable during the last 7 months."

you're never indispensable.

developing this idea is actually usually a pretty poor career move to make.

you know

if you ever want a promotion

11/12/2008 5:07:41 PM

^I'm on the phone with Arab13 LMAO

11/12/2008 5:08:01 PM

TELL HIM I SAID HAAAAAYYYY!

11/12/2008 5:08:58 PM

hi boy

11/12/2008 5:10:54 PM

Quote :

"developing this idea is actually usually a pretty poor career move to make. you know if you ever want a promotion"

i've already gotten 2 "promotions" since i was hired. and i have over $5K higher than i can go in my career band. and my boss is intent on moving me up in the career banding in the future, since i'm serving as a "research associate/laboratory manager/laboratory animal coordinator" rather than the "laboratory technician" i was hired as.
i'm expecting a significant raise at my annual review, as long as the economy isn't still dead next may. but hey, i won't cry if it doesn't happen. not many people can actually say they LIKE where they work and who they work with.

11/12/2008 5:14:14 PM

executive compensation consulting is proving to be pretty recession proof which is nice. rich people need to know what to get paid regardless of what the economy is doing

11/12/2008 5:18:03 PM

Signed.

11/12/2008 5:25:37 PM