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more about #layoffhorrorstories more comments → AlexandraNerps: I will be horrified if all of my journal entries are deleted or otherwise lost. I've spent the last near decade on LJ and its' a huge important part ... more » BadUncle: LiveJournal, founded by engineer Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999, predated most blogging services and social networks, and anticipated many of their features... more » RevHalofan: How do I archive my blogs over there somewhere else? This is like mom throwing my diary in the fireplace, except it is mother russia... more » TriedandTrue: Perhaps those that truly were fired can show up on Monday ala George Costanza and just start working like nothing happened? more » graceless: Oh yes you are! Oh no you're not. Yes you are, No you're not. I'm confused. more » Larry Fine: The CEO quickly followed up the email with another one that just said "No, but really." more » Mafalda para Presidente: Well, regardless of how idiotic the gesture, it's still better than being fired. more » david: Ditch America and move to France, they don't treat employees like shit there. more » Ed: I just got my walking papers on Monday. They did a lot of cuts last week and those were all in the morning. I got laid off at the end of the workday. ... more » tshirttt: JinxyMcDeath, As an older worker who almost always now works with younger people who are in a position of authority over me, I hope people judge me by... more » Lizawithazee: First story girl, be careful. Because they told you you were "not a good fit" it could be considered a firing for cause, not a layoff. They could very... more » Mafalda para Presidente: Both my parents work for Mervyn's Co., which just announced it's closing its doors soon. They're supposed to close completely after December 31st, so... more » mitchel_stevens: You think this was scary? You should've been at the Apple hiring process yesterday. Constantly told how lucky we were to even come in for an interview... more » aurora*raby: I feel terrible for the people in the story. If it's any consolation, I was pushed out of a magazine job nearly a year ago. Since then, I've been work... more » Baroness: All these layoff stories are heartbreaking. But at least we live in the Land of the Free, right? Free to enter the workforce with $100k in student lo... more » -
#livejournal
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. -
#blinditems
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 » -
