Unemployed

[BlueWag66n]

A cousin of mine in Ontario iscurrently laid off from a Chrysler plant where they are or will make the new Challenger. He's got a bumper sticker on his Chevy Van that reads something tothe effect of: Want to lose your job? Just keep buying foreign!

Edit: There was another paragraph here, but on further consideration, its content had maybe a little too much bite to it!

Andy

[dmcbttf1984]

i'm in the same boat. i worked over nights at k-mart and i went in got settled tried to punch in and the computer wouldn't let me. i was like ok it wasa glitch. i told my supervisor about it she said start and we will see if we can fix it and just then the manger walks by and says we need to talk. then i wasinformed that i was no longer in an employe and they had tryed to call me that day to let me knoe but the whiped me out of the computer so any recored of methere was gone. to ad insult i had bought a sony psp a few days before i learned of getting caned.

it sucks i'm still trying to find work

[Kdog of NH]

Hope you all plan on voting next month ! The last 8 years are the worst I've seen in my 59!

K-dog

[redlinejohnny6872]

Add another member to the club, me, i joined it a few weeks ago.........

Every facet of the Automotive Industry is suffering big time, from top to bottom, i'm in there somewhere, more towards the bottom........

Good luck to all, hopefully it doesn't last too long for us.........

[MINGOTOY]

U.S. car companies need to produce good , small cars. They still don't see the writing on the wall . Americans need to buy what is best for them. Buying a great small American car or small SUV is not possible for any American person in the USA because there is no such animal......at least not in the USA. US car companies are developing and selling small cars in the but for the European and South American market and not the USA. Sure , gasoline prices aredropping but for how long? Unless you own a boat or trailer or work in construction or haul lots of people / stuff , you're an idiot to buy a big SUV togo to the supermarket. US car companies have way too many big cars/suvs/trucks. That is the problem.

Sorry to hear about your job loss again but perhaps you layed-off employees can pressure the American car companies to start producing the good small carsthat they produce abroad. Why isn't the Ford Fiesta here yet? WHy isn't the Ford Ecosport brought here ( a small SUV that looks like a smallerEscape.) When is the Chevy Cruze going to arrive here ? 2011 2012? WHy is this American car being sold abroad first? (I think that I know the answer tothis one... Chevy wants to get rid of the Cobalts first...)



maribell

[Charger68]

Common ground for ONCE there Kdog!!!

[HWsMinis]

I am sorry to read about so many people losing their jobs.

I work in the microchip design field and it's one that at one point only had a few hundred people worldwide thus getting and keeping very good paying jobswas easy. Since the job came around in the late 60s, there has never been much of a time when one couldn't get work...if they were willing to temporarilyrelocate. Within the last 3 months, I've been getting calls and/or hearing through the grapevine about a lot of people not being able to keep their jobs orfind new jobs in this field. Very scary for an electronics niche that has been going strong for over 40 years...during other working field good and bad times.My wife is one of those unemployed right now, but this is mostly due to our unwillingness to move. We want to spend a winter in Arizona, in our own house. Soit's our own doing.

Good luck to those out there looking for work.

Mike
HWsMinis

[MINGOTOY]

The economy is pretty bad all around. My brother works in a body shop w/ 10 employees in Queens, NY. They are barely getting work in tokeep everyone busy. A few of the guys were told to stay home this week. People are not fixing their cars. When there is a minor accident, people are notfixing the cars...They do get cars to fix from Hertz but people are also renting less now.. Less car rentals= less work...

The other day, my boy went backwards and banged his 93 Toyota against a fence post. The fence post won. The kid ripped the front bumper off the car and badlydented the frontfender. I had my brother screwed the bumper back on. The fender was banged into a shape and a few screws were added to make sure that itdidn't come off. I clearly saved my boy at least $400.oo...

Hopefully, things will change soon.


maribell