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  • March 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM #358664
    patientrenter
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    It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

    Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

    Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

    Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

    March 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM #358106
    Aecetia
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    Pup:
    I am glad you still have your job. I like your insight. If you move to a remote place and it is really off the beaten path, will you be able to communicate with us? I think many of us like the house in the mountains idea, but what about good medical care? I for one do not want to hunt small animals for food. I guess I will check out the shelf life on protein powder…

    March 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM #358407
    Aecetia
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    Pup:
    I am glad you still have your job. I like your insight. If you move to a remote place and it is really off the beaten path, will you be able to communicate with us? I think many of us like the house in the mountains idea, but what about good medical care? I for one do not want to hunt small animals for food. I guess I will check out the shelf life on protein powder…

    March 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM #358548
    Aecetia
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    Pup:
    I am glad you still have your job. I like your insight. If you move to a remote place and it is really off the beaten path, will you be able to communicate with us? I think many of us like the house in the mountains idea, but what about good medical care? I for one do not want to hunt small animals for food. I guess I will check out the shelf life on protein powder…

    March 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM #358582
    Aecetia
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    Pup:
    I am glad you still have your job. I like your insight. If you move to a remote place and it is really off the beaten path, will you be able to communicate with us? I think many of us like the house in the mountains idea, but what about good medical care? I for one do not want to hunt small animals for food. I guess I will check out the shelf life on protein powder…

    March 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM #358684
    Aecetia
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    Pup:
    I am glad you still have your job. I like your insight. If you move to a remote place and it is really off the beaten path, will you be able to communicate with us? I think many of us like the house in the mountains idea, but what about good medical care? I for one do not want to hunt small animals for food. I guess I will check out the shelf life on protein powder…

    March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM #358126
    partypup
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    [quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
    I knew a tipping point had occurred in January when a friend of mine in Santa Maria applied for a part time job as a cashier at a Trader Joe’s in Santa Maria ($8/hour), and 1000 people showed up.
    [/quote]

    I’m not saying things are good, but you do realize this was a brand new store? At a well known company that probably advertised the jobs. It’s not like 1000 people were there for one cashier’s job.

    In 1979 I went to apply at a new Big Bear in El Cajon and there were hundreds of people waiting in line. A poor economy like now, but not the end of the world.

    [/quote]
    Actually, many more showed up for the 3 or so other positions available, including manager.

    But it is a fact: there were roughly 1000 applicants for one (1) cashier job, according to the assistant manager who spoke with my friend.
    [/quote]

    So this brand new store only needed 4-5 people?

    Doesn’t pass the smell test.

    [/quote]

    They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?

    March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM #358427
    partypup
    Participant

    [quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
    I knew a tipping point had occurred in January when a friend of mine in Santa Maria applied for a part time job as a cashier at a Trader Joe’s in Santa Maria ($8/hour), and 1000 people showed up.
    [/quote]

    I’m not saying things are good, but you do realize this was a brand new store? At a well known company that probably advertised the jobs. It’s not like 1000 people were there for one cashier’s job.

    In 1979 I went to apply at a new Big Bear in El Cajon and there were hundreds of people waiting in line. A poor economy like now, but not the end of the world.

    [/quote]
    Actually, many more showed up for the 3 or so other positions available, including manager.

    But it is a fact: there were roughly 1000 applicants for one (1) cashier job, according to the assistant manager who spoke with my friend.
    [/quote]

    So this brand new store only needed 4-5 people?

    Doesn’t pass the smell test.

    [/quote]

    They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?

    March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM #358567
    partypup
    Participant

    [quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
    I knew a tipping point had occurred in January when a friend of mine in Santa Maria applied for a part time job as a cashier at a Trader Joe’s in Santa Maria ($8/hour), and 1000 people showed up.
    [/quote]

    I’m not saying things are good, but you do realize this was a brand new store? At a well known company that probably advertised the jobs. It’s not like 1000 people were there for one cashier’s job.

    In 1979 I went to apply at a new Big Bear in El Cajon and there were hundreds of people waiting in line. A poor economy like now, but not the end of the world.

    [/quote]
    Actually, many more showed up for the 3 or so other positions available, including manager.

    But it is a fact: there were roughly 1000 applicants for one (1) cashier job, according to the assistant manager who spoke with my friend.
    [/quote]

    So this brand new store only needed 4-5 people?

    Doesn’t pass the smell test.

    [/quote]

    They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?

    March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM #358602
    partypup
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    [quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
    I knew a tipping point had occurred in January when a friend of mine in Santa Maria applied for a part time job as a cashier at a Trader Joe’s in Santa Maria ($8/hour), and 1000 people showed up.
    [/quote]

    I’m not saying things are good, but you do realize this was a brand new store? At a well known company that probably advertised the jobs. It’s not like 1000 people were there for one cashier’s job.

    In 1979 I went to apply at a new Big Bear in El Cajon and there were hundreds of people waiting in line. A poor economy like now, but not the end of the world.

    [/quote]
    Actually, many more showed up for the 3 or so other positions available, including manager.

    But it is a fact: there were roughly 1000 applicants for one (1) cashier job, according to the assistant manager who spoke with my friend.
    [/quote]

    So this brand new store only needed 4-5 people?

    Doesn’t pass the smell test.

    [/quote]

    They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?

    March 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM #358704
    partypup
    Participant

    [quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
    I knew a tipping point had occurred in January when a friend of mine in Santa Maria applied for a part time job as a cashier at a Trader Joe’s in Santa Maria ($8/hour), and 1000 people showed up.
    [/quote]

    I’m not saying things are good, but you do realize this was a brand new store? At a well known company that probably advertised the jobs. It’s not like 1000 people were there for one cashier’s job.

    In 1979 I went to apply at a new Big Bear in El Cajon and there were hundreds of people waiting in line. A poor economy like now, but not the end of the world.

    [/quote]
    Actually, many more showed up for the 3 or so other positions available, including manager.

    But it is a fact: there were roughly 1000 applicants for one (1) cashier job, according to the assistant manager who spoke with my friend.
    [/quote]

    So this brand new store only needed 4-5 people?

    Doesn’t pass the smell test.

    [/quote]

    They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?

    March 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM #358196
    TheBreeze
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    [quote=JustLurking]Partypup is not a guy. [/quote]

    [img_assist|nid=10486|title=.|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=358|height=258]

    March 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM #358497
    TheBreeze
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    [quote=JustLurking]Partypup is not a guy. [/quote]

    [img_assist|nid=10486|title=.|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=358|height=258]

    March 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM #358636
    TheBreeze
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    [quote=JustLurking]Partypup is not a guy. [/quote]

    [img_assist|nid=10486|title=.|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=358|height=258]

    March 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM #358673
    TheBreeze
    Participant

    [quote=JustLurking]Partypup is not a guy. [/quote]

    [img_assist|nid=10486|title=.|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=358|height=258]

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