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  • From: "Shawn Hood" <shawnlhood AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] You know your state's in trouble
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:35:37 -0500

This is alwways interesting to watch:

http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:32 PM, <kristeneberlein AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the URLs getting munged. Here they are corrected:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/010509-ibm-employees-buzzing-about-layoff.html
>
> http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1357198.html
>
> Kris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kristeneberlein AT mindspring.com
> Sent: Jan 7, 2009 2:26 PM
> To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] You know your state's in trouble
>
> IBM laid off 38 regulars in RTP in November, as well as 100 RTP contractors.
> Right now the rumor mill suggests that IBM will be announcing layoffs on
> January 23, perhaps as many as 16,000 world wide.
>
> See
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/010509-ibm-employees-buzzing-about-layoff.html
> or http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1357198.html
>
> Kris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Czeiszperger
> Sent: Jan 7, 2009 12:58 PM
> To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] You know your state's in trouble
>
> As far as I can tell its not as bad as in 2001. Yet. I don't know anyone
> personally who's been laid off, and while Nortel laid off another batch,
> employers like Cisco, SAS, and IBM haven't announced any layoffs as far as I
> know. I don't know if they're hiring either, which is more to the point for
> you. This is probably something best done by gauging the reactions from the
> bulk of list members.
>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Ilan Volow wrote:
>
> As long as we're on the subject...I left NC a couple years ago for a mac
> development job (impossible to find in NC, at least back then) and
> occasionally I toy with the idea of coming back.
> What is the IT job market (esp. for programmers) like in the Triangle right
> now? Does it mirror the downturn in the other sections of the state's
> economy?
> -- Ilan
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>
> when there's so many people filing for unemployment the website crashes:
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-01-06-ncarolina-unemployment_N.htm
> The recession has pushed the jobless rate in North Carolina to 7.9% in
> November, the last month for which figures are available. That was the
> highest since October 1983.
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Czeiszperger
> Chapel Hill, NC
> "He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." - H. Simpson
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