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• Swinging the ax — how to fire someone

  Sun Sep 26, 2010
  • The article implies that getting laid off and getting fired are the same thing.  While there are similarities, they are fundamentally different.  Someone is generally fired because he/she has done something "wrong", such as poor performance, stealling from the company, not being a …

• Women more optimistic than men about economic outlook

  Thu Jul 29, 2010
  • Hmmm...guess we can add 22,000 more women to the pessimistic column. Aren't statistics fun!

• Women more optimistic than men about economic outlook

  Thu Jul 29, 2010
  • lifeisadimension is essentially correct. Although not quite at 75 percent, according to a recent Newsweek article, it was definitely not a few percentage points difference, as quoted below:

• Women more optimistic than men about economic outlook

  Thu Jul 29, 2010
  • Thought I read somewhere that, proportionately speaking, men were laid off in higher numbers than woman. Jobs that were traditionally dominated by men such as construction, heavy manufacturing, etc. vanished with no hope of ever getting them back.

• NYC teachers to leave ‘rubber rooms’

  Thu Apr 15, 2010
  • Looks like the tide may be turning toward paying teachers more if students perform better due an influx of Federal grant money to persuade states and school districts to do it. Check out this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36278615/ns/us_news-education/

• NYC teachers to leave ‘rubber rooms’

  Thu Apr 15, 2010
  • An at-will employee essentially means that you are not required to join a union in order to hold onto a job.

• Mika Brzezinski: I should have told my kids the truth

  Tue Jan 5, 2010
  • I was in a similar situation in '08, when I was laid off along with hundreds of my friends and colleagues as a result of a management change and "restructuring". I know children react differently to bad news, but her daughter being in a fetal position in school seems like an extreme reaction.

• Your Career: How to get a promotion in 2010

  Sun Jan 3, 2010
  • You're post is too funny, and probably much too close to reality.

• Retailers report sales declines for August

  Thu Sep 3, 2009
  • Sorry ashton, you got it wrong about the Cash for Clunkers rebate. Below is straight from http://www.cars.gov/faq Is the credit subject to being taxed as income to the consumers that participate in the program?

• Obama touts plan to change college loan system

  Fri Apr 24, 2009
  • The Joe Biden quotes were widely reported on April 17th all over the country. Didn't think i had to cite what should be recent, common knowledge. Here's one of many links: http://dailyjournalonline.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/doc49e89b8317c0f900016406.txt