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| Tim Brandt (Timb)
Registered Member Username: Timb Post Number: 262 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 74.244.14.221  Rating: N/A |
We laid off 10% of our workforce today. Fortunately I made it through but I lost 1/3 of my employees with no input on who went or stayed. Now I have to figure out how to do the same job with a fraction of the man hours | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 395 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.228.218  Rating: N/A |
PRAY!!! | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 455 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 70.212.185.144 Rating: N/A |
Tim....these are tough times...I feel for all of you that are going thru this; but thank the LORD you made the first cut! As I grew up, I can remember my dad, who was the son of an Arkansas dirt farmer/circuit preacher, reminding us along the years about the fellow who complained about having no shoes....until he saw a man who had....no feet. There is always someone in more dire straits that we ourselves. Best wishes to you and your family. FWIW  ...Proverbs 3:5&6 RCB | ||
| Skip N (Skip)
Registered Member Username: Skip Post Number: 37 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 97.73.64.178  Rating: N/A |
Tim, According to Gartner Group you guys are leading the way.......To bad that didn't translate into sales. A good prayer for the country wouldn't hurt. Not that devine intervention could fix things It's a long race hang in there. Skip | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 673 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 66.82.9.75 Rating: |
Having lived thru a bunch of recessions , "We laid off 10% of our workforce today." Yet I never EVER remember the Gov letting a single "worker" go? Why is that? FF | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 790 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 72.146.76.57  Rating: N/A |
The Postal service will be cutting back hours/days. Our garbage collection is considering cutting back on crews. The State Auto Registry is considering doing away with Saturday service. Some of the local guys that have been working for the highway department (under contract), are presently not working. There's some serious plans to cut back on school transportation. The list is long, so I won't ramble on... but the Bush Recession is hurting more, than some people want to believe. And there's no "quick fix" to undo 8 years of the beating this Nation's taken. | ||
| Tim Brandt (Timb)
Registered Member Username: Timb Post Number: 263 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.165.176.62 Rating: N/A |
Fred, I hear ya but I was once a govt scientist working for NOAA that was laid off when Bill entered office and cut the budget. That said it was the best thing that ever happened to me because I went back to grad school and then landed this job in the software industry which has provided for me far better than NOAA ever did Prayer has been a large part of all this in fact this was yesterdays devotional What Does God Know about You? (Part 2) by Rick Warren Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:13 (NIV) *** *** *** *** God knows everything about your faults and failures, and your feelings and frustrations, and he also knows what your tomorrow holds. God knows your future. We’re all interested in the future. It’s interesting to me the things people will use to try to figure out what’s going to happen next: astrology, horoscopes, reading tea leaves, consulting with people, bio-rhythms. But they’re going to the wrong source because the only one who knows what’s going to happen next is God. The Bible says, even before you were born, God knew all of your future (Psalm 139:16, Jeremiah 29:11). This means God sees your tomorrow, today. He already sees the things you’ll face. The fact is, God is not limited by time. He’s able to be in the past, the present, and the future all at the same time. Think of it like this: if you were in the Goodyear Blimp looking down on the Rose Parade, you could see the beginning of the parade and the end of the parade all at the same time. God, from his perspective, can see past, present, and future all at once. That should give us great confidence in God. It’s comforting to me that he knows everything that is going to happen in my life. He not only knows about the future, he’s there in the future. He not only walks with us day-by-day, he can also walk in our future. God is already prepared for everything you’re going to face – tomorrow, next week, or next month. What the future holds may surprise us, but it doesn’t surprise God. Nothing ever catches him by surprise, or makes him say, “Oh, really?!” Next month or next year you may be faced with a crisis, and you may ask, “What’s happening? Where is God?” God’s been there all along, preparing. He’s already in your future and he’s prepared for everything. If I know that God knows all my tomorrows, today, then I should ask him for advice. He knows what’s going to happen: “Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own” (Jeremiah 33:3 MSG). The things you don’t know, God can tell you about. He’s not going to lay out your whole life all at once, telling you everything that will happen in your life. If he did, you’d likely get very discouraged or prideful or both. Instead, he gives it to you a little bit at a time. It’s like this, when you’re driving up a mountain on a curving road and you’re caught behind a slow car, you may think, “If I could just see around the curve, I’d go ahead and pass this guy.” If there were a helicopter above, the pilot could let you know if there was another car around the curve. From his perspective, he could help you out. The same is true with God: from his perspective, he knows everything that’s going to happen, so you can ask him for advice. Here’s what I’d suggest, when you get up in the morning, go over your schedule with the Lord. Pray, “Father, you’ve already seen this day that I’m about to experience. You know ahead of time every interruption I’m going to face, every cranky person in the office, every flat tire, every traffic jam, every missed plane, when I’m going to spill the coffee on my suit. You’ve already seen it all. Would you, right now, give me the strength to cope through this day, the strength that I need for today.” | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 940 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.57.152.243 Rating: N/A |
"Yet I never EVER remember the Gov letting a single "worker" go? Why is that? FF" Charlotte County in Florida has recently laid off employees and closed some of the county offices. | ||
| John Lacey (Junkman42)
Registered Member Username: Junkman42 Post Number: 68 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 69.19.14.39  Rating: |
The giant bubble has burst. All of us have been living beyond our means for a very long time. I believe that We have all been responsible for a giant ponzi scheme that while not deliberate , has grown out control and it finaly just would not support itself anymore. As an example the small town I live close to hired a 75 thousand dollar a year city manager and a 45 thousand a year building inspector and had never had any payed city employees other than a clerk to send out water bills and a couple of men to service the water system and trim a few roads. They saw a building boom coming, it did not happen and now they are broke and want to raise taxes to support their stupidity. Do not blame GWB because He is simply not the reason for all of this mess, We are, each and everyone of us. My take, and I admit guilt. John | ||
| Tony LEE (T_lee)
Registered Member Username: T_lee Post Number: 47 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 41.214.138.36 Rating: N/A |
"Yet I never EVER remember the Gov letting a single "worker" go? Why is that" Don't know much about your system, but here the government decided many years ago that employing people was not the proper function of government. Since then it has sold off most functions and employed contractors to do most of what was left. Now, it is true that it rarely puts off workers - but only because it doesn't employ many anyway. To be fair, God doesn't employ nearly as many as He used to either. (Message edited by t_lee on January 30, 2009) | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 1319 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.110.9  Rating: N/A |
A few of the states are starting to think like business; when things are bad, try cutting the fat instead of raising taxes to take care of it. This country started on the downhill when credit cards became popular and people started piling on the debt. Causing the years of good economic times. Time to pay the piper. Now to get out of this mess, this debt has to be worked down before any serious consumption starts to grow the economy. Meanwhile, these card companies charge 20 plus percent interest rates, making it near impossible for millions to get solvent for years. I know it is their own fault mostly, but the economy could take years to recover. Don't forget about all of those millions of student loans. This has been building for years and has finally coming to a head. Consider yourself fortunate if you have low debt. All of us are going to get our fair share from all these many bailouts to come. Anybody that is convinced that this is all GWB's fault is grabbing the easy answer. The reasons are complex and beyond the interest of the average person. Simplified sound bites are easy and obscure the real problem. I personally think that the price of oil hitting $150 dollars per barrel caused everything to topple now instead of later. Speculators, greed, world demand, politics, etc. The price of oil is going to determine the rate of recovery for us, unfortunately, as most now realizes how this effects the price of EVERYTHING.At least, when you played Monoply, you could start the game over and the losers got to start again. Which one was/ are you??? This debate could go on for hundreds of posts. Nuff said from me. | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 676 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 66.82.9.61 Rating: N/A |
"but the Bush Recession is hurting more, than some people want to believe." How did the first 6 years of the best economy seen on the planet end? In 2006 with the election takeover by DEMOCRATS . These are the folks that protected F&F from rational actions (like NOT demanding 50% of the loans it bought be "sub prime" ..no job? no income? a Liars unverified loan for you) that GB asked congress for over 17 times! Look to Barney Frank, and Chris Doddering for the trigger to the failure of a another "gov" agency. Dont forger Chuck "the Shmuck" Schumer who crashed a bank in CA to help in the BO election. FF | ||
| Gus Causbie (Gusc)
Registered Member Username: Gusc Post Number: 818 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 208.54.200.69 Rating: N/A |
I love it when you guys blame Democrats for this Bush mess!! Kind of silly after eight years of Bush and his other idiots doing their best to wreck the country. This requires a really deep sand pit into which one must insert one's head. | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 946 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 71.54.29.215 Rating: N/A |
I don't think its make any differnece whether they call themselves Democrats or Repubicans, they are all politicians and there is definatley enough blame on both sides of the fence. Jack | ||
| Josh McElhiney (Zcommanager)
Registered Member Username: Zcommanager Post Number: 26 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 166.217.205.227 Rating: N/A |
Jack, I agree with you. Unfortunately, most politicians are propelled by nothing more than their own self-serving agendas, not giving a S#*! about their constituients (sp). I'm a registered Republican and voted for John McCain, but I must say, thus far - and I know it's still very early in his term, I am pleased with President Obama's performance, and his willingness and determination to change how our corrupt government works (both sides). He at least seems to have the 'intestinal fortitude' to shake up Washington - more-so than anyone else has done in quite a long time. Capping Senior Executive pay to $500,000 from Wall Street Bailouts, what a great start!? Finally someone is willing to take on these banking 'tycoons.' Hopefully Congress can swiftly wade through the constitutional 'mambo jumbo' and figure out the legalities of enforcing this salary 'cap off.' Now if he could only get his cabinet nominees to pay their damn taxes! Okay, I'm stepping down off my little soapbox now. | ||
| Larry & Lynne Dixon (Larry_d)
Registered Member Username: Larry_d Post Number: 185 Registered: 7-2005 Posted From: 71.111.188.44  Rating: N/A |
Are these P poor choices or is it payback for favors done in the election. Maybe all have been laying in the same bed. From the Gov., old friends and cabinet picks his batting average is, not very good. And may God save us. I am done also | ||
| Clint Hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 3 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.235.190 Rating: N/A |
I have had to ask the question in the last election "vote for someone, that would be insane! Why would I continue to authorize and pay another to make important decissoins for me, it is more likely they would make those decissions in with their best intrest in mind, not mind. " Like the my bus sides and back & top reads www.realcanadiandemocracy.net . Just my way, maybe not your's |
