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[razorjak]

All corporation scumbags who lay-off people just before the holidays (or during depending on your religion) in order to make a good fiscal year presentation to the stockholders need to wake up each morning with a festering burning sore on their body for each person they've laid off.

Sometimes I think there's a good reason I stay in the lower tax brackets. I may not be able to afford things most of the time. But at least I don't get used to being able to travel and buy nice things and then have that all taken away because some suit wearing fucktard decides that his shareholders stock will rise an 1/8th of a point.

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[elixxir.livejournal.com]

Heh. You get used to it. It's just a strange, regular phenomenon these days...I can think of at least half a dozen people on my friends list alone who've been laid off in the past 6 months alone. Some more than once this year. Keeps us on our toes. Or something. :p

[the-tatyana.livejournal.com]

Our lay-offs will be taking place 2 weeks after the holidays "...so folks, enjoy your time off, but don't spend too much money in case you don't have a job to come back to." heh

[raindrops.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got my big boot right after the holidays... cunningly retro-ed to be on the books a day before I was eligible for my bigass annual bonus (we're the Corporation, we own time, and we bend it as we will)... left me stuck with a huge holiday AmEx bill that I would never have run up had I known I'd be unemployed within a month and denied unemployment benefits due to a clever reworking of reality... and then the eviction and the homelessness and the dealing with the fact that taken singly both unemployment and homelessness are damn fookin' hard to remedy, but couple them and you're worth more dead and will have less police-inflicted wounds. Thanks, guys.

Your second paragraph there kinda hits me right where I used to live when I had a home of my own.

And it's just BAU... to top it off, it's not even surprising. I'm on the fookin' welfare now since I was denied UIB. I thought I'd have difficulties with them, but when interviewing with the worker, he asked, "What did you do, where did you work, what did you make, why did you leave?"

I started to answer, "programmer/manager, $MAJOR_ISP, $$$$$$" and he cut me off and completed my answer for me: "they fired you and then denied you UIB saying you quit... and now you can't pay someone to hire you because of that."

I'll stop now before I go off a-ranting. Corporations are not persons, they cannot vote, they do not bleed and die for their country, yet they reap unimaginable benefits from those "natural persons" while proclaimed by fiat and practice to be above every law those same "natural persons" are subject to and bearing none of the responsibilities commensurate with those benefits.

Trimming the beef to make way for more fat... it must be hollowday time again.

[absinthea.livejournal.com]

ITA. I saw a clip about that on the news and it made my blood boil. Asshats.