Thousands of layoffs in April

We have had a job cuts too and other things scaled way back.

Kentucky courthouses will close for three days in 2012 to cut costs
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you medical types expecting a pay cut once Obamacare is enacted?

They're hiring down at the local gloryhole.

Medical would be the only semi safe sector, You would think

April has set a record for job layoffs...

My contract prematurely ended in April as an expected work order from the state did not come thru. Initially, the first week I found interest in my resume but the following week I was told that employers had either hired iterally or postponed hiring. However, now in May it seems to have picked up again. I'm in Oregon.

This contributes to all our problems
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I need to hire 2 people, but all i can find are idiots.

Had to shitcan a guy last week because he couldn't make it to work by 9....ever.

THIS

plenty of jobs if you are willing to do whatever it takes..

Plus employment rate went down to 8.1%

I am an hardware / software / firmware engineering recruiter working in San Jose, CA who just stepped out for a break because my head is spinning with the amount of offers I am doing, jobs i am getting ready to post, people I have to set up to start in a week and the managers wanted more resumes yesterday! I have done two interviews today and another to go plus scheduled 2 I don't have time to attend so i stayed off the schedule, and 6 more to set up that are aging. I can't work fast or long enough to keep up.

I am overloaded with hiring work to the point of serious stress.

Not kidding!!!

Wolf Blitzer on CNN just said that Obama claims to have created 4 million jobs since 2009 when the job loss was at 4,595,000 lost jobs when he took office. Wolf says that we only need to gain 95,000 jobs a month until November to get all the jobs back that were lost when Obama became president in January 2009.

With that good news, everything is looking hunky dory, so commence with the spending again.

This is a cool job, too. I have a graphic design/sign company. The positions are for fabrication, which I think is the funnest job in the house...

Low stress. Easy hours. Mainly inside. No piss test. good pay for the area... I can't figure it out.

That is called welfare roulette. Git yo check, maybe double it

SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WASTING TIME POSTING ON GLP?

GET BACK TO WORK, YOU GALLEY SLAVE.

yup...hundreds layed off at this place..

Traveland USA RV mall to close.

IRVINE – Traveland USA, one of the nation's first one-stop shops for recreational vehicles and services and a fixture in Irvine for nearly four decades, is about to close its gates for good.

38-acre parcel that Traveland has occupied off the I-5 freeway at Sand Canyon Avenue since 1973.
IRVINE CALIFORNIA.

Weekends often saw 1,400 cars come through the gates, many loaded with families who would picnic at the duck pond and enjoy entertainment at the nearby gazebo.

Maybe you should pay a better wage....

If someone will generate revenue that creates solid ROI, I will.

no doubt.

The pockets of hiring all over the US is insane. Never seen anything like it. One city doing excellent, and the city 20 miles away is hurting big time.

No, but I want to loose my job..nobody wants to drive right now..Many just park it and sit at home..

I was living in Sydney Australia for 8 years, when I decided to come home last June. I was home one week doing interviews and putting resumes. I had 2 job offers in the first week home, and I took one of those jobs, and I just left there last month because a better job came along. I have never had a problem getting a job.

The unemployment rate edged lower to 8.1% from 8.2%, but it fell because more people stopped looking for work. Some 342,000 people dropped out of the labor force to mark the second decline in a row, the Labor Department said Friday.

No wonder you have so much Red Karma

Mighty grim in Ohio. As for IT, you better have 5 yr minimum experience. Even then, there are anywhere from 10-300 applicants for every opening.

Thier math is great,isn't it? 340,000 just quit looking, add 115,000 jobs and its a drop of 1/10th of a percent.
It really does appear to be hit and miss. Some places are doing great, some terriable

Hahaha.

It's a fair deal... I work my ass off and get paid very well for it.

Yeah, selected area you got no chance.
Take Detroit, if some reason you live there, finding any valuable employment is almost impossible.

Keep Pluggin forward, but understand whats going on.

there are lots of 10 to 14$ a hour jobs here in grand forks, ND At that rate you can not buy a house

Same thing in NYC. Im in the business and I've heard from recruiters that most development verticals are running below 2% unemployment.

All this BS doom is cherry-picked locations and situations.

I'm a software engineer who has worked in the Silicon Valley for most of the past decade. I agree that there is plenty of work there. The problem is that the jobs you are offering are for the most part contracts with no benefits.
I think most folks who live in the Bay Area would agree that $110K plus benefits might buy a lower middle class existence for a small family. Without healthcare coverage, $110K will quickly bankrupt the average family residing in the area.
No offense, but I truly believe that headhunters are a serious detriment to our collective well being as society.