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March 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM #359401March 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM #358834svelteParticipant
I can still remember doing my paper route in the 1970s and seeing several homes on my route with bomb shelters constructed in their front yard…I found out because I asked one of them what the hatch and vent tube protruding from their lawn was for.
People have expected armageddon for a long time.
Just make sure that whatever YOU spend your hard-earned cash on to prepare for it can easily be converted into a wine cellar, like my friends from the 1970s have no doubt done by now.
March 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM #359136svelteParticipantI can still remember doing my paper route in the 1970s and seeing several homes on my route with bomb shelters constructed in their front yard…I found out because I asked one of them what the hatch and vent tube protruding from their lawn was for.
People have expected armageddon for a long time.
Just make sure that whatever YOU spend your hard-earned cash on to prepare for it can easily be converted into a wine cellar, like my friends from the 1970s have no doubt done by now.
March 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM #359278svelteParticipantI can still remember doing my paper route in the 1970s and seeing several homes on my route with bomb shelters constructed in their front yard…I found out because I asked one of them what the hatch and vent tube protruding from their lawn was for.
People have expected armageddon for a long time.
Just make sure that whatever YOU spend your hard-earned cash on to prepare for it can easily be converted into a wine cellar, like my friends from the 1970s have no doubt done by now.
March 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM #359314svelteParticipantI can still remember doing my paper route in the 1970s and seeing several homes on my route with bomb shelters constructed in their front yard…I found out because I asked one of them what the hatch and vent tube protruding from their lawn was for.
People have expected armageddon for a long time.
Just make sure that whatever YOU spend your hard-earned cash on to prepare for it can easily be converted into a wine cellar, like my friends from the 1970s have no doubt done by now.
March 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM #359417svelteParticipantI can still remember doing my paper route in the 1970s and seeing several homes on my route with bomb shelters constructed in their front yard…I found out because I asked one of them what the hatch and vent tube protruding from their lawn was for.
People have expected armageddon for a long time.
Just make sure that whatever YOU spend your hard-earned cash on to prepare for it can easily be converted into a wine cellar, like my friends from the 1970s have no doubt done by now.
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM #358844Reality
Participant[quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
[/quote]That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
[/quote]I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
This might be another one:
“Laid-off professionals turn to ‘survival jobs'”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008798590_jobs01.html
[/quote]I browsed the article. It isn’t pretty, that’s for sure. But we have been here before, especially in the San Diego area in the early 90’s when a lot of the defense industry went away. Folks who were making good money found themselves unemployed or underemployed. There were lots of stories like this. Sad but nothing new here.
The Dow concerns me more.
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM #359146Participant[quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
[/quote]That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
[/quote]I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
This might be another one:
“Laid-off professionals turn to ‘survival jobs'”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008798590_jobs01.html
[/quote]I browsed the article. It isn’t pretty, that’s for sure. But we have been here before, especially in the San Diego area in the early 90’s when a lot of the defense industry went away. Folks who were making good money found themselves unemployed or underemployed. There were lots of stories like this. Sad but nothing new here.
The Dow concerns me more.
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM #359288Participant[quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
[/quote]That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
[/quote]I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
This might be another one:
“Laid-off professionals turn to ‘survival jobs'”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008798590_jobs01.html
[/quote]I browsed the article. It isn’t pretty, that’s for sure. But we have been here before, especially in the San Diego area in the early 90’s when a lot of the defense industry went away. Folks who were making good money found themselves unemployed or underemployed. There were lots of stories like this. Sad but nothing new here.
The Dow concerns me more.
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM #359324Participant[quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
[/quote]That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
[/quote]I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
This might be another one:
“Laid-off professionals turn to ‘survival jobs'”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008798590_jobs01.html
[/quote]I browsed the article. It isn’t pretty, that’s for sure. But we have been here before, especially in the San Diego area in the early 90’s when a lot of the defense industry went away. Folks who were making good money found themselves unemployed or underemployed. There were lots of stories like this. Sad but nothing new here.
The Dow concerns me more.
March 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM #359427Participant[quote=partypup][quote=JohnAlt91941][quote=partypup]
They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
[/quote]That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
[/quote]I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
This might be another one:
“Laid-off professionals turn to ‘survival jobs'”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008798590_jobs01.html
[/quote]I browsed the article. It isn’t pretty, that’s for sure. But we have been here before, especially in the San Diego area in the early 90’s when a lot of the defense industry went away. Folks who were making good money found themselves unemployed or underemployed. There were lots of stories like this. Sad but nothing new here.
The Dow concerns me more.
March 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM #358869TheBreeze
Participant[quote=partypup]
Dude, I just got back from Paris and am headed to Tahiti this summer.
I have NEVER stopped enjoying life! What have you done lately? ;-)[/quote]
Paris? Tahiti? What are you going to do if Partypupageddon hits while you’re there? How will you get back to your bunker?
March 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM #359171Participant[quote=partypup]
Dude, I just got back from Paris and am headed to Tahiti this summer.
I have NEVER stopped enjoying life! What have you done lately? ;-)[/quote]
Paris? Tahiti? What are you going to do if Partypupageddon hits while you’re there? How will you get back to your bunker?
March 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM #359313Participant[quote=partypup]
Dude, I just got back from Paris and am headed to Tahiti this summer.
I have NEVER stopped enjoying life! What have you done lately? ;-)[/quote]
Paris? Tahiti? What are you going to do if Partypupageddon hits while you’re there? How will you get back to your bunker?
March 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM #359348Participant[quote=partypup]
Dude, I just got back from Paris and am headed to Tahiti this summer.
I have NEVER stopped enjoying life! What have you done lately? ;-)[/quote]
Paris? Tahiti? What are you going to do if Partypupageddon hits while you’re there? How will you get back to your bunker?
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