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The Most Depressing Layoff in New York?

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BookishLookish
12/30/08

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Boo hoo. I'm with awesome55. Get out there and scrap like the rest of us or fuck off back to wherever you come from. Nobody is entitled to work in the field of their choice--if you can't do the thing you were trained to do, learn how to do something else.

My grandfather came to this country with a PhD in Economics from the University of Florence, import-export business experience, and speaking six languages. The economy was even more in the toilet then. He got a job working on the floor in a factory with a bunch of rough-ass garmentos and was glad to have it. Man up, you jerks, and get to work.
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SinisterRouge
12/30/08

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New York Magazine was the biggest magazine to perpetuate retarded spending and living the high life...remember their gifts special wherein it advised you to get a chinchilla coat for your brother-in-law that cost $5K? Now they've embarrassed themselves to the point of acting like they give a shit.
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awesome55
12/30/08

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Kill or be killed you pussies. If you cant handle it move back to chicago and go work in "fringe theatre." Who said this city owes you anything more than a smack in the mouth. Frankly this economy is good for one thing, it thins out the ranks. More like Malthus, frankly, than Darwin. And thank God for that. You wanna friend, get a dog. Now fuck off and cry to your therapists.
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BookishLookish
12/30/08

@awesome55: My hero.
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squeakel
12/30/08

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It's hard for me to feel sorry for anyone who struggles in a creative field. Making a good living as an actor, writer, musician, etc. is so exceedingly rare it's like winning the lottery. Why people don't know this going in just boggles my mind. That's what day jobs are for.
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forwardmotion
12/30/08

@squeakel: I'm a writer. Think of it as a form of mental illness and it will start to make more sense.
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leonleonleon
12/30/08

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Wow, some of those are incredibly aggravating. I read through this one and felt like punching the dude in the face after every paragraph:

[nymag.com]
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SarahHeartburn
12/30/08

@leonleonleon: No. Tell me that one isn't a joke, please.
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WaltzingMatilda
12/30/08

@leonleonleon: I felt pretty bad for the 50-year-old woman from Citigroup who lost her job after 30 years in finance - but kind of bristled at: I'm eating leftovers! I'm on a budget! I don't shop at Saks or Neimans! My reply: sounds like the regular lives of tons of people.
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Astigmatism
12/30/08

@leonleonleon: Did he really write "I think that my generation won't have a crutch to lean on" two paragraphs after saying "I made sure that my dad deposited my car-lease money in my checking account-I think he is going to have to deposit rent money also"?

He didn't, did he?

Really?
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forwardmotion
12/30/08

@leonleonleon: You're totally right. It's a face puncher.
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Mysterious Skin
12/30/08

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This is all Darwin's theory at work. Survival of the fittest. Who will be left standing besides me?
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miss_msry
12/30/08

@Mysterious Skin: I dunno, probably the person behind you in the unemployment line.
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Mysterious Skin
12/30/08

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These stories confirmed my conviction that a lot of businesses are using the recession as an excuse to rid themselves of the dead weight hanging around the office (except for the Citigroup people which was clearly a mass layoff).
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pmarble
12/30/08

@Mysterious Skin: That's a pretty crappy thing to say. You want to pour a little more salt in these peoples' wounds. hmmm?
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pssshwhatever
12/30/08

@pmarble: I remember learning about this in college, but can't remember the name of it...fundamental attribution error, I think. Happens a lot with the shaming of rape victims. People blame others' misfortune on the imagined intrinsic flaws in those people (they're useless dead weight) instead of on uncontrollable outside circumstances (a cratering economy) because it helps them, subconsciously, reassure themselves that it won't happen to them. In their own heads, they don't have those flaws, so naturally they're safe, right? Right???

In reality, I think what most people are finding is that we're ALL dead weight, in one way or another. And if you think you're not, you're lying t yourself.
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Mysterious Skin
12/30/08

@pssshwhatever:

it is also true new technology is turning a lot of people into dead weight no matter how great they are

the secretaries in my office have less and less to do because everyone drafts their documents on their computers, emails them instead of fedexes them and on and on

so many industries like publishing and newspaper journalism are becoming outmoded
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Shelwood
12/30/08

@Mysterious Skin: Being expendable is not necessarily the same as being dead weight. The latter implies people aren't doing their jobs competently.
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newsnun
12/30/08

@Shelwood: Agreed. As one of the newly unemployed, let me say that I was laid off because the company folded. Everyone, including the president, lost their job. A friend of mine, a small business owner, is heartbroken because she will have to lay off employees, good ones, because she simply doesn't have the capital to pay them. It's that bad.

And Mysterious Skin - a little punctuation goes a long way, darling.
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forwardmotion
12/30/08

@newsnun: Why bother punctuating when you're just trolling?
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unclevanya
12/30/08

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This recession will bring out the inner Blanche DuBois in us all.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
12/30/08

@unclevanya: well, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
12/30/08

( the stranger the better )
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/30/08

@unclevanya: God I HOPE not! I'd rather believe that the human comedy (to borrow from Balzac) that is my life isn't destined to end as dismally as, well, EVERYONE'S in Streetcar! maybe it'll bring out my inner Scarlett O'Hara instead? I kind of like "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
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Baroness
12/30/08

@unclevanya: Ah take six hot baths a day.. to soooothe mah nerves.
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BookishLookish
12/30/08

@oyvehisyou: I prefer Maggie the Cat. But Scarlett was no slouch!
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SpyMagician
12/30/08

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One time a few years back I started crying in the middle of the night during a nature special about killer whales because I understood what it meant to be a penguin on a rock being pushed into the abyss by hungry sea mammals.
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Wrapitup
12/30/08

@Jack S: That's one of the saddest things I've heard. Shit man, that sucks.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
12/30/08

@Jack S: it's time for you to move to california.
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forwardmotion
12/30/08

@Monsignor Xtravagante D'ouchestache: It's no picnic here in California either. And we actually HAVE large hungry sea mammals.
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Smitros
12/30/08

@forwardmotion:

And the sea lion is a smelly beast, too.
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