Showing posts with label Doom Baby Doom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doom Baby Doom. Show all posts
Friday, November 19, 2010
Fox News North Delays Launch
La Presse provides an English translation, or you can read the original through this link. But the upshot is they're looking at sometime in 1st quarter 2011 rather than on January 1st, as previously stated. No reason given. Feel free to speculate in the comments. My favorite theory is...whoever thought this was a good idea has run out of LSD and is having 2nd thoughts.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Taste The Pain
My wife has been predicting an economic collapse for ten years now, just on general principles, and she's sort of happy her predictions are finally coming true. Her favorite blog (I am apparently not even in the top 10) has recently become The Layoff List. Run by a fellow in New York State, its purpose is to
...highlight the ever deteriorating job picture and to list smaller layoff announcements that don’t get the attention of main stream media. There is a great deal of scattered job loss information, but I want to try and gather as much information as I can and present it in a manner that is concise, informative and somewhat easy to read.
The site traffics in both news and rumors, and these latter tend more often than not to be born out. For example, LL called Microsoft's last round of layoffs several weeks before they were confirmed in the MSM. Quite a bit of Canadian content as well.
Reminds me a bit of that great old website, F***ked Company, that narrated the collapse of the tech bubble in the late 1990s.
So give it a visit, because things are far, far worse then you think.
...highlight the ever deteriorating job picture and to list smaller layoff announcements that don’t get the attention of main stream media. There is a great deal of scattered job loss information, but I want to try and gather as much information as I can and present it in a manner that is concise, informative and somewhat easy to read.
The site traffics in both news and rumors, and these latter tend more often than not to be born out. For example, LL called Microsoft's last round of layoffs several weeks before they were confirmed in the MSM. Quite a bit of Canadian content as well.
Reminds me a bit of that great old website, F***ked Company, that narrated the collapse of the tech bubble in the late 1990s.
So give it a visit, because things are far, far worse then you think.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Gauging The Year Ahead
Stock up on throwing knives! Invest your money in freeze-dried food and shotguns! From an economic stand-point, 2009 is going to stink!
Luckily, economic indicators exist in any work-place environment that can help you determine how your company will fare in the year ahead.
Firstly, what is the quantity and quality of the Xmas munchies your company put out this season? Where I am, it was nothing but unshelled peanuts, and people ate 'em and liked 'em. Thats a bad sign.
At your Xmas office party, how many people were slipping extra slices of meat into their pockets or purses? Did women-folk battle over the last ham-bone, for the "young 'uns" back home?
And if you see a guy wandering around asking about your HVAC system, you're fucked. The place is being sold out from under you. Something everyone should be thinking about, especially if you work for the feds.
Luckily, economic indicators exist in any work-place environment that can help you determine how your company will fare in the year ahead.
Firstly, what is the quantity and quality of the Xmas munchies your company put out this season? Where I am, it was nothing but unshelled peanuts, and people ate 'em and liked 'em. Thats a bad sign.
At your Xmas office party, how many people were slipping extra slices of meat into their pockets or purses? Did women-folk battle over the last ham-bone, for the "young 'uns" back home?
And if you see a guy wandering around asking about your HVAC system, you're fucked. The place is being sold out from under you. Something everyone should be thinking about, especially if you work for the feds.
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