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Have Your Played “Layoff”?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

My buddy, Guillaume, sent me this note about the online game called Layoff:
Basically it is a game where you line up workers to lay them off. Each worker has a story you can read before laying them off. Businessmen cannot be laid off. I guess when you get too many businessmen remaining, [...]

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During Layoffs, Keeping Information Confidential Is Essential

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Psst? Have you heard the one about the IT group being chopped next week?
Hey, have you heard that Chris took home her personal pictures?
Did you hear that I found a “RIF List” on the copier?
Rumors fly in the best of times. They become dangerous and hurtful during the worst of times. The unemployment rate in [...]

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RIFs have Started: Yahoo is First

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Well, this is going to get all too familiar over the coming year. Yesterday, Yahoo led the way to RIFville with an announcement that they would be laying off 10% of their staff before year’s end. Sure, all the trouble isn’t from the recent stock market collapse, but that’s a big factor.
Jerry Yang’s letter to [...]

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Those Who Are About to Be RIF’d, We Salute You

Monday, October 20th, 2008

[Photo credit: jnb24]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for –in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford [...]

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Time for Employees to Go Lewis & Clark

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I was browsing someecards.com today (great way to waste an hour) and saw this card that I thought was perfect for the RIF Days ahead. Going Lewis & Clark is one way to not be there when the hammer drops.

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