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2022-09-03 Economy

US job growth moderates in August with 315,000 added while unemployment edges higher

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Pfizer minorities-only fellowship highlights growing corporate embrace of racial preferences

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-03 06:00|| 2022-09-03 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Lies, damn lies and statistics.

You see them everywhere.

Posted by AlanC 2022-09-03 09:21|| 2022-09-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I got my layoff notice last week.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-09-03 10:22|| 2022-09-03 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry to hear that Deacon. Been there, done that. Takes the 'feel good meter' a while before it finally leaves the peg. Nothing you have done. Nothing you could have done. It's not personal, it's just foking binnes in the current environment.

Difficult not to blame one's self, even subconsciously. Don't do it !

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-03 10:56|| 2022-09-03 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Deacon Blues, excellent advice from #4 Besoeker. I got laid off several times while working. But the Lord always provided me with a better job next time--and in fact, the layoffs sometimes protected me from a disaster that was about to happen at the old company.

Also: The first time it happened, the company provided outplacement services. And the resident psychologist told me that he switched his practice from family psychology to unemployment because "with unemployment there is always a happy ending." And it's true. He also told me that there are ten people out there dying to hire me (you); they just don't know you exist. Your job is to make them know you exist so that they can hire you. And that is also true. So keep your head up and go find the next, better job!

Posted by Tom 2022-09-03 11:43|| 2022-09-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Had to take a really crappy job after my layoff. Low pay and the boss was a dishonest creep. Had to work there for a whole year before finding a decent job. That was tough. Hope you can do better. But I finally made it to retirement and it's much better now. Hang in there, Deacon.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-03 11:58|| 2022-09-03 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker As soon as I could after the notice I started looking on job sites. I found one for 3 jobs doing what I was doing at the company I worked for. Pay was substantially lower than what I was making. I wasn't the only one, either.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-09-03 15:20|| 2022-09-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Landed on your feet. I figured you would. Congrats sojur.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-03 15:40|| 2022-09-03 15:40|| Front Page Top

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