C’mon, FLU. The best you can do is a story about some laid-off middle manager from the toy industry?

Toys are the most discretionary item in the universe. Of course that industry is gong to get hit during a recession.

And middle managers? Companies can get the most bang for their buck by cutting the layers of middle schmanagement flab.

This guy was lucky to ever have a job. If it wasn’t for the housing bubble, he’d probably be working at some call center or something. Plus, I bet he’s spent all the money he made on frivolous crap and sent his daughter to some $50,000 a year private school so that she could get a worthless art history degree.

Let’s see a story about someone with real skills and a real job who has gotten laid off.