The Worst Earth Day Ever

Being laid off is like finding out you have a deadly disease. You can be walking around feeling healthy as a horse. Until the doctor calls you regarding the tests you took the week before. Bam! disease……uh…layoff! Today was a beautiful day until I sat down at my desk. I spent the whole day in meetings where the discussion involved layoffs. Then they actually started laying people off in multiple states and time zones. I find it funny that people will fire everyone around you and expect you to keep working like nothing happened. Do we have desk jobs or are we invading Normandy? This is our new workforce reality. You take it one day at a time because you never know when your number will be up. I just wish we spent earth day recycling jobs instead of dumping them.

Do you need a drink to wash down that stimulus package?

Tell NAFTA to put down my Spicy Chicken Sandwich

On Monday, we received news that 65,000 job were slashed. I’ve been predicting that 2009 would be a bad year. I knew things were bad but we are getting near the bottom. Jack in the Box, a fast food restaurant, has been out sourcing their drive-thru since mid 2008. How do you out-source a drive thru? I know the company was trying to be more efficient but is this how?

When I call about my Credit Card I have to talk to someone in India. Is this what will happen when I want a milkshake? How many more jobs are we going to lose? These aren’t high paying jobs to begin with. We have given away the store in this country. In an effort to have bigger and cheaper for faster, we have let other countries control our fate. I don’t know of anything that is made in America anymore. I live in North Carolina, formally a Mecca for buying Furniture, and my coffee table came from England. I thought some guy would go to Asheville and cut a tree down. I ended up waiting for the slow boat to bring the table. What if the boat had of sunk? Then my coffee table would be with Davey Jones Locker. I don’t mind toys from Taiwan, but can’t we have toys from Tennessee as well? The Germans and the Japanese have already strong armed us in the car game. Don’t get me wrong because Honda makes nice cars. America use to be known as a nation that built things. Our manufacturing was the backbone of this country. Now I can’t even get a chair from down the street.

I know how Corporations work. Today they will take orders in the U.S. Tomorrow they will be taking orders from Indonesia. Corporations work by one rule. Make a lot using less. It’s the new American cost of doing business. But if I go to Taco Bell and this happens………………………..