Lay off stories

[Engels]

Well, it seems that the economic carnage is still not over, and the NY Times is carrying a bit of news about the recent lay offs at Radio Shack. Just when you think it can't get any more grotesque...someone raises the bar:

Employees at the headquarters here received an e-mail message on Tuesday morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.

“The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,” the notice stated. “Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”

“If I put myself in their shoes, ” Mr. D’Souza said. “I’d say, ‘Didn’t they have a few minutes to tell me?’ ”

Last month, the company hired a former Kmart executive, Julian C. Day, as chief executive

Shares of RadioShack rose 29 cents, to $18.21.

[Sky]

Goddamned stock market. Ruining the country.

I have anti-layoff advice: Don't fuck the boss's wife. Even if she's asking for it and he's fucking your girlfriend behind her back.

[Engels]

Sky, honey, that's not a layoff. That's getting in the sack and getting the sack.

[Merusk]

.. and he's fucking your girlfriend behind her back.

Once they start fucking someone else they're not really your boy/girlfriend anymore.  At that point you're just another fuck buddy.. treat them as such.


As for the main topic.  I hadden't heard anything about Radio Shack layoffs.  It doesn't surprise me, though. Nobody repairs electronics anymore, anything else you need from there can usually be found at Home Deopt or Best Buy.  So all that's left is their Tandy stuff, and how many people need crappy remote controlled cars and off-brand electronics these days?  Radio Shack filled a niche for a good while, but it's niche is dying out. Thanks Wal*Mart and the disposable electronics market!

[HaemishM]

Radio Shack filled a good niche badly for many many years. But other than watch batteries and a satellite tripod, I haven't needed them in almost a decade.

This, however, is screaming towards the top of the "How to be Corporate Douchebags" list. And it's a long fucking list.

[Furiously]

Goddamned stock market. Ruining the country.

I have anti-layoff advice: Don't fuck the boss's wife. Even if she's asking for it and he's fucking your girlfriend behind her back.

In the ass?

[Sky]

Goddamned stock market. Ruining the country.

I have anti-layoff advice: Don't fuck the boss's wife. Even if she's asking for it and he's fucking your girlfriend behind her back.

In the ass?

I thought about fixing that to be clearer, since I knew some of you sarcastic bastards would read it that way. 

Behind his wife's back, ie: without her knowledge.

[Signe]

I hurt myself rolling my eyes at Furiously.   

[Nebu]

I hurt myself rolling my eyes at Furiously.   

With that avatar you shouldn't be rolling your eyes at anyone!

[Signe]

Somebody ALWAYS complains about my avatards.  That avatard is art, that is.

[Nebu]

It looks like ET after plastic surgery. 

[Murgos]

Don't fuck the boss's wife. Even if she's asking for it...

It's probably a really bad idea to fuck your boss's wife when she's not asking for it too.

[Lantyssa]

Somebody ALWAYS complains about my avatards.  That avatard is art, that is.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time.  If you do, it probably isn't a very interesting and probably not worth using.

[Paelos]

Somebody ALWAYS complains about my avatards.  That avatard is art, that is.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time.  If you do, it probably isn't a very interesting and probably not worth using.

I still can't figure out if the cat in yours is happy, or if they are squeezing it and it is screaming for help.

[Lantyssa]

It is happy.  Sakaki would never hurt an animal.

[angry.bob]

I still can't figure out if the cat in yours is happy, or if they are squeezing it and it is screaming for help.

Know more about Azumanga Daioh, nub - it's one of the 5 best anime series of the last decade. No matter how many times you watch them, they never get old. The manga on the other hand is WTF?

[Signe]

I don't know what anyone is talking about anymore.  ESPECIALLY angry.bob.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah but once you get past the shouting and cuss words could anyone really tell us what angry.bob is talking about?

[Ironwood]

Basic Human Freedoms.

[Righ]

What differs us from other animals is the ability to negotiate away freedom.

[hal]

A thought. To be discussed. This whole "find a job" as implemented in America thing is totally borked. Good useable and productive people miss jobs because they don't flat out lie on there resume? In reality you just keep applying until you get a job because you have no chance getting a job that you might be qualified for. Or that kiss of death, when you really need a job and they tell you your overqualified. I got so overqualitfyed that I ended up homeless. The spell checker let me down here. But I'm to lasy (or drunk) to care. deal with it or ignore it.

[Triforcer]

A thought. To be discussed. This whole "find a job" as implemented in America thing is totally borked. Good useable and productive people miss jobs because they don't flat out lie on there resume? In reality you just keep applying until you get a job because you have no chance getting a job that you might be qualified for. Or that kiss of death, when you really need a job and they tell you your overqualified. I got so overqualitfyed that I ended up homeless. The spell checker let me down here. But I'm to lasy (or drunk) to care. deal with it or ignore it.

Your welcome is wearing thin.  And if even I think you're annoying troll, banville isn't too far away.

[Murgos]

A thought. To be discussed. This whole "find a job" as implemented in America thing is totally borked. Good useable and productive people miss jobs because they don't flat out lie on there resume? In reality you just keep applying until you get a job because you have no chance getting a job that you might be qualified for. Or that kiss of death, when you really need a job and they tell you your overqualified. I got so overqualitfyed that I ended up homeless. The spell checker let me down here. But I'm to lasy (or drunk) to care. deal with it or ignore it.

75%, a number I've seen, of all jobs in the US are recieved by networking.  This is particularly true the higher/more skilled/more specialized you go.  Blindly applying for anything and everything and lying about your qualifications is not the way to get a real job.

[Lantyssa]

Someone forgot their morning, mid-morning, lunch, afternoon, dinner and nightcap coffee.

[Sky]

Know more about Azumanga Daioh, nub - it's one of the 5 best anime series of the last decade. No matter how many times you watch them, they never get old. The manga on the other hand is WTF?

Yes, everyone should be ashamed if they don't know about your niche cartoon interests! WTF, indeed.

[schild]

Know more about Azumanga Daioh, nub - it's one of the 5 best anime series of the last decade. No matter how many times you watch them, they never get old. The manga on the other hand is WTF?

Yes, everyone should be ashamed if they don't know about your niche cartoon interests! WTF, indeed.

Do you know what Battlestar Galactica is? Oh? You do? Because it's definately, no doubt in my mind, more niche than Azumanga Daioh. Azumanga Daioh also didn't create The New Trekkie.

[Sky]

 

[Engels]

Do you know what Battlestar Galactica is? Oh? You do? Because it's definately, no doubt in my mind, more niche than Azumanga Daioh. Azumanga Daioh also didn't create The New Trekkie.

Schild, bro, I do not doubt that the anime cartoon has merits above and beyond BSG, but I think I'm going to have to ask you to define 'niche', since conversationally, at least, niche indicates a smaller audience, and for better or worse, I think its fair to say that BSG has had more exposure than just about any anime cartoon.

[UD_Delt]

Do you know what Battlestar Galactica is? Oh? You do? Because it's definately, no doubt in my mind, more niche than Azumanga Daioh. Azumanga Daioh also didn't create The New Trekkie.

I think you may be mistaken on the comparative popularity of Battlestar Galactica to ALL anime combined, at least in the US.

The pilot to this series, the biggest budgeted (US$7 million) pilot ever up to that time, was originally released theatrically in Canada, Western Europe and Japan in July 1978 in an edited 125-minute version. (See Saga of a Star World for information on the pilot).

On September 17, 1978, the uncut 148-minute pilot premiered on ABC to spectacular Nielsen Ratings (attracting 65 million viewers).

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%281978_TV_series%29

To the best of my knowledge I can't think of any Anime that appeared in prime time on a major US network.

[NowhereMan]

I think Schild meant in terms of its content appeal, i.e. BSG is crazy sc-fi that only us nerds like while Azumanga is about growing up and life at school, universal themes.

That said, WTF? What were you smoking when you made that statement?

[JoeTF]

Maybe he wasn't looking at just US?

[Llava]

Given that this Azumanga Diaeuoaeieoh isn't on TV in the USA, or at least on any channels that I've noticed, I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to have not seen it or heard about it (I've done the latter, but not the former).  BSG, however, is on a TV channel in the USA.

Worldwide it may very well be more popular.  We're not in the world.  We're in the USA, dammit.

[Tebonas]

Those timetravelling BSG rapesquads roaming around the countryside surely messed up some of you in their youth. Only explanation for that much hatred.

BSG is on TV channels in Europe as well, never heard about Azumanga Diablabla. Anime runs in the children programs over here or very late at night though, so I might have missed it.

[penfold]

WTF is Azumanga Diaeuoaeieoh then?

I've not even heard about this on my various geek forums.

[Ironwood]

Oh God, DON'T get him started.