Turn off CNN, throw away Time magazine, and stop reading Washington Post. Instead, point your favorite browser to alternative media. If the recession is over, why do the layoffs continue?



http://www.hrlive.com/layoffs.php


www.timebomb2000.com


www.kitco.com

 

Cause layoffs and hiring are a lagging indicator maybe?

 

Instead of wallowing in the negativity maybe you should look at

www.monsterjobs.com
www.salesjobs.com


Lots of jobs to be had.

 

Without reading it, I've gotta question the objectivity (and applicability) of a site called "timebomb2000".

Waxy

 

I gotta go with Waxy on this one, too. Seems a predetermined mindset from the name. Maybe "Chicken Little" would have been an equivalent name choice?

 

The unemployment rate - Which stood at 5.9 percent in November- is lower than the average for the past thirty years. That is right at the threshold that most economists, as recently as the mid-1990s believed, was the lowest it could go without triggering inflation.

 

The average unemployment rate in the 80s was about 7.5%.

In the 90s, said rate was 5.8%--remember the alleged prosperity?

Now, said rate is about 5.6%.

Lots of jobs to be had....classified ad reps for newspapers are still very employed, but if one wallows in the pity of that very highly skilled (sarcasm inserted if you did not notice) job standing at an assembly line that is lost and doesn't seek training in another field, that fault lies with the worker his/herself.