Comments on: This Week in Layoffs – 9/18/09 http://lawshucks.com/2009/09/this-week-in-layoffs-91809/ A self-deprecating look at life in and after BigLaw Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:03:28 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Guest http://lawshucks.com/2009/09/this-week-in-layoffs-91809/#comment-1319 Guest Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:13:27 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=3273#comment-1319 If you believe unemployment is only 9.7% I've got some great stock tips for you, just send me your money first and I'll make you rich!!!! Those layoff numbers don't reflect all the firms NOT on the radar - I know because I was laid off and I'm sure I'm not counted. Things are going to get worse too when reality strikes Wall Street and they realize they over bet the recovery. <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm</a> If you believe unemployment is only 9.7% I've got some great stock tips for you, just send me your money first and I'll make you rich!!!! Those layoff numbers don't reflect all the firms NOT on the radar – I know because I was laid off and I'm sure I'm not counted. Things are going to get worse too when reality strikes Wall Street and they realize they over bet the recovery.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

]]> By: Mamie http://lawshucks.com/2009/09/this-week-in-layoffs-91809/#comment-1318 Mamie Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:11:30 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=3273#comment-1318 Are you kidding who gives a whot if they are saving, are you nutz. The law firms are letting go of 30 yearers and under. But sooner or later the whole legal world is going to go down at once. So you people that are still working are in for a hugh surprise. The balloon will burst and last to go will feel it the most, and it could not have happened to Nicest of people. What goes around comes around. Are you kidding who gives a whot if they are saving, are you nutz. The law firms are letting go of 30 yearers and under. But sooner or later the whole legal world is going to go down at once. So you people that are still working are in for a hugh surprise. The balloon will burst and last to go will feel it the most, and it could not have happened to Nicest of people. What goes around comes around.

]]> By: Thrifty Sophisticate http://lawshucks.com/2009/09/this-week-in-layoffs-91809/#comment-1314 Thrifty Sophisticate Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:02:46 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=3273#comment-1314 Are people who were not laid off saving more in the wake of all of this? If you were laid off, so you still live a "lawyer-like" lifestyle or are you being super frugal? Are people who were not laid off saving more in the wake of all of this?
If you were laid off, so you still live a “lawyer-like” lifestyle or are you being super frugal?

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