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The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.
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By Owen ThomasComment by RevHalofan: How do I archive my blogs over there somewhere else? This is like mom throwing my diary in the fireplace,... 9 Responses | Other threads
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You're Fired, Er, No You're Not
Sequoia Capital, the backer of Apple, Yahoo, and Google, ordered its startups to slash their payrolls this fall. We hear one CEO fired people so enthusiastically he had to retract some of his pink slips. More » -
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Laid Off Just in Time for the Holidays
Time for the laid off to lawyer up. Today, Forbes reported that "white-collar workers laid off amid the financial crisis are using the 20-year-old plant-closing law" that requires employers to either give workers two-months notice of mass firings or pay up with two months worth of severance. With that in mind, after the jump, layoff tales involving grandparents, clerical errors and typos. (As usual, send your stories to tips@gawker.com.)
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By SheilaComment by JinxyMcDeath: Of my 6 friends that lost their jobs in the last 3 months (all of whom are highly educated), none... 19 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Let's Use One of These Hot Blonde Girls to Replace Her
Remember last Friday? Laid-off Weinstein company employees sure do. They had been asked on Wednesday to clean up their desks because a "special guest" was coming. Turns out it was HR to tell them they were fired. Surprise! We have more tales from the front lines of the inanity known as "work" (send your own stories to tips@gawker.com.) In this edition, a tale of being newly hired only to be fired, and another reason to hate Gmail chat.
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By SheilaComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Surely there must be such a thing as workers' rights? Why didn't they get notice? Do they get a severance... 15 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Laid Off for the Holidays
So the Dow closed, terribly, under 8,000 for the first time in five years, Time Inc's chopping more heads, and we're still looking for your layoff stories! (Send them to tips@gawker.com.) Oh, and? Remember the sad layoff story we you told you about earlier—it was a "post-9/11 husband-and-wife double-whammy"? There's more woe: More »
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By SheilaComment by zaropa: This is all well and good but on the CNN home page there is an in depth interview with the... 9 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Love Your Life? Lose Your Job
This round of layoff tales are dedicated to those fired from Wired, Time Inc.'s European contingent, and Michigan's autoworker retirees who have just had their promised lifetime healthcare stolen. Has Twittering your after-work activities like museums and park strollers instigated jealousy amongst higher-ups? Are you the only one left in your family with a job—only to be laid-off? Have you quit and tried to get your job back? Read on. (And send your stories to tips@gawker.com.) More »
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By SheilaComment by Penscribe: My company refuses to fire me but is attempting to bleed me dry. Today I was told by a boss... 15 Responses | Other threads
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Get Well Soon, Without a Job
In honor of the Friday layoffs sweeping through the media today, we bring you even more funny-sad stories of being fired. (Esquire, Wenner, O at Home, this one goes out to you.) As always, send your own anecdotes to tips@gawker.com. Read on for sick-bed and weekend layoffs and a guy who's been laid off so many times, he's a "kiss of death" to any company. More »
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By SheilaComment by FracturedAcetabulum: I just wonder how long it'll be before they start laying off Commenters. 3 Responses | Other threads
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If I'm the One Fired, Why Are You Crying?
Election euphoria hasn't stopped waves of layoffs. "The number of out-of-work Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged to a 25-year high," reports the AP today. With that in mind, it's another round of layoff... horror stories. Today's tales go out in tribute to the very recently downsized employees at Hearst (Redbook, Good Housekeeping), Time Inc., and the Village Voice. Holla! (Wanna send us your anonymous anecdotes? Write tips@gawker.com.) Today, we hear tales of crying, drinking, and a well-placed "Fuck you."
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By SheilaComment by ADismalScience: Why do people still bring personal effects to work? Seems insane in this environment. My desk is spotless and empty... 22 Responses | Other threads
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You're Fired, and Will You Tell Your Mom She's Fired, Too?
Have you ever been unemployed? Have you had to call the temp agency to tell them to "reactivate my file"? Is your net worth $240... in ones? Let the lyrics of REM to console us: everybody hurts. And everybody, according to the overwhelming amount of you're-fired stories we've been getting (tips@gawker.com), has been fired. But have you been fired by someone telling your kid instead of you? Or by finding a "people to fire" doc on your boss's computer? Did you unwittingly collate on your own "exit package"? More »
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By SheilaComment by JinxyMcDeath: I was was fired on my answering machine after working all day and my boss smiling and saying "Have a... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Tales from the Unemployment Line
If there's anything more random and inane than work, it's the very randomness and inanity in which we are laid off and/or fired from our jobs. Today is the third installment of Layoff Horror Stories (send yours, or your tales of unemployment-related ennui and depression, to tips@gawker.com—have you put on pants today?) We're about to hear from someone who was informed of their downsizing by the office building's doorman, a layoff that ended up in "one giant ass-fuck, basically," and listen to a rumor that some Conde Nasties have recently resigned themselves to freelancing... web freelancing.
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By SheilaComment by subpar: Can someone write about how the Bloods are going to slash my face this Halloween? For serious. Is it initiation... 7 Responses | Other threads
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"And Now I'm a Receptionist" (You're Fired)
Good morning! In the midst of recovering from the Dow's freakoutpanicmeltdown ("This recession is already deeper than the 2001 downturn," intones today's Times), we have another round of layoff... horror stories. There's a "classic banking fuckup" that almost ended in a "trading floor riot," a post-9/11 husband-and-wife double-whammy, and a person who has been downsized three times in eleven months. In other words, "Last year's [company] holiday card required the removal of 13; this year it's 15." More »
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By SheilaComment by overunderover: I was once unceremoniously canned (perp walk and everything!) from a mid-six figure position, premised on my political affiliation, though... 9 Responses | Other threads
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Happy Birthday, You're Fired!
Getting laid off is never fun. But complaining about how awful being laid off is, in a perverse and masochistic way. Because misery loves company, we want your layoff stories. (Send them to tips@gawker.com.) Here are two we received so far: one from a man who wasn't even allowed to get his birthday cards, and another about a laid-off employee who the bosses actually forgot to fire...
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By SheilaComment by JinxyMcDeath: My friend got laid off from her job as a lawyer and all she does now is lay in bed... 17 Responses | Other threads
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