| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 3:21:03 PM | | Each day, I wind up talking to people who are now the "no longer employed". Just wondering if it's just the people I know, or is the S*** hitting the fan yet. Blah,blah, blah...........just trying to fill up the 2oo requirement. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 3:22:30 PM | | Nothing going on here mind you I'm one of the least likely to be canned at work due to my great intelligence and blah blah blah etc... etc... well my experience I should say. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 3:24:29 PM | Well no, being self-employed I've not been canned.
I did however get rather pickled a couple of weekends ago (hic) 
Okay, actually I didn't get drunk.  | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 3:28:24 PM | Been doing better the last 2 Months than the 4 before that.
All is well on the economic Home Front. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 3:49:08 PM | | Down about $100k based on projections. That means a whole bunch less for Victoria. And I'm only 1 guy. Their take goes from 1200/month to 87/ month. We are not going to have a good year in this province. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 4:03:30 PM | | Thats great to hear Spud ....you have started some sort of a home business? Must be nice not having to rely on anyone but yourself anymore, a very liberating feeling.I wish you well on your new Business adventure...one thing...Look out events..Spud is making the big bucks now so he will be able to go to every event , ups the odds of meeting someone too ...again, Congradulations | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/28/2008 5:03:31 PM | I got my work to lay me off in April so I could go back to school, so I can't get fired from being unemployed, but come January I will be looking for work again.
I am not at all concerned about finding employment though, as there is always work for those who want it bad enough. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 12:32:01 AM |
on the upside we are having much free time
It's actually kind of nice. Been doing the 12-15 hour days, 24/7 for about 10 years. Nice to be getting caught up on things. May just buy that place down south and call it a day.
Not really. I know I'll be bored by the end of January. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 5:04:39 AM | I know I've asked for my pink slip,,,but they won't give it to me!!! Seriously thou, we had to layoff about 10 a couple of weeks ago just because the work load was getting down. I know this lull in the economy is kinda scarey,but it's kinda nice to have somewhat of a break in the schedule that I have been trying to keep up in the last 5-6 years. Even better now is the time to "cut the fat", get rid of the "dead weight", etc, etc. Or as I call it to some out there, a lesson in REALITY.
Too many out there in the workforce have been walking around like they were "untouchable" because of how busy everybody has been and the silly amount of work everyone had. Those are the first that get sent to the unemployment line. Too many out there never used the opportunity of the last 5 years to learn, make themselves better at their jobs, or I say to them, make themselves UNfireable.They now will have figure out what they are going to do as things slow down a bit and reality comes back into the big picture. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 8:19:50 AM | due to the fact there is always someone somewhere in this world with money to spend
self employment currently works for me | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 2:45:46 PM | Nope , I won't ever get canned because there are too many sick people around! | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 4:49:38 PM | I know a few people who have lost their jobs. It isn't looking too good.
I feel sorry for people who lose their jobs because there wont be that many new jobs around. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 6:09:55 PM | | and then there are Alberta and Saskatchewan. I know we don't wanna go but wih mortgages and all. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 6:14:49 PM | I still have my job OP, one that I will hopefully retire in. I figure I have about 22 years left of working. Wow! | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/29/2008 7:05:07 PM | | I dont personally know anyone who has lost their job since the US economy went to sh!t...Lucky for me I am Canadian living in Canada and this so called recession were supposedly having has yet to effect me or any one I know personally....And the US stock markets are raising every day so I dont see what all the hype is about. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 11/30/2008 8:19:45 PM | I HAVE BEEN CANNED, BANNED,DEBUNKED & SKUNKED
Yet i stll have the funk.
Being my trade is restoring delapatated dwellings, will i ever go out
of style.
If so, im going out IN STYLE!
PS, i am the master of plaster, i lay it on thick.
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 12/2/2008 10:00:20 PM | Awe it's no hat bad. Next door we have Alberta and then Saskatchewan. Both have lots of work. What, you don't wannna move? Oh well. None of the country's migrant workforce wanted to move either. You don't have to invest the money you make where you make it. You can invest it elsewhere. At least you don't have to move all the way down to Toronto. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to move to another part of the country and stay there to work. Sure it sux. But then someone else might say, "at least the opportunity IS there. (and not the other side of the country). For now.
Yes there IS that much work. It's just that it might not be right in our backyards, that's all.
I have one job and am waiting to go to the other one for the winter to work. (Crazy for four seasons and loves working out in the miserable weather). | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 12/2/2008 11:44:32 PM | | I have noticed over the last month a major slow down in northern BC and Alberta. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 12/4/2008 8:07:36 AM | | Not yet but I think its a matter of time, as all of a sudden we have to account for every minute we are there & pass in our stats every day........I'm not worried but I think a lot are, hopefully I'm wrong! | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 12/4/2008 8:30:05 AM | | I know a quite a few people who've been laid off, but the thing that makes it starkly obvious in my mind, is when I'm picking up my daughter from elementary school. It used to be that about 90% of the parents picking up were mothers ... now, I'd guesstimate close to 75% are fathers. | |
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| Anybody been canned yet?
Posted: 12/4/2008 8:34:22 AM | luckily business for me has picked up alot the last little while....lets hope it continues....I am in the type of business that when others dont work, neither do I. Things were a bit slow for 3 months but now my phone is ringing off the hook again  | |
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