Unemployment Poll

[Arkitech]

Last month right before christmas at my job (AT&T) there was a big meeting and my entire department was told they were being laid off with the exception of about 20 people. My dept has roughly about 130-150 people so it was a pretty sizeable layoff. Of course that's just the tip of the iceberg as AT&T is laying off roughly 12,000 people in total. Anyway I have about another month left before my last date, but fortunately I have a severance package to fall back on and I have a little bit of savings to help out as well.

With all of the people on ATOT who have been laidoff in the past year or so, I'm curious how many people are currently unemployed or facing that fate. I'm also trying to get an idea of which jobs have taken the biggest hits. I work in IT and it seems like that's a bad profession to be in right now with all the out of work computer professionals.

 

[imported_Imp]

Umm.. you forgot "Freeloading at home" under living status.

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: Imp
Umm.. you forgot "Freeloading at home" under living status.

lol, fixed

 

[slsmnaz]

still have my job, been here 9 yrs and I can make my payments on my house. There have been quite a few layoffs here but our dept in IT was short-staffed already.

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: Imp
Umm.. you forgot "Freeloading at home" under living status.

This probably means you're too young to be in the actual workforce so you really don't statistically count for this.

Edit: PS, why not add "Employed but having accepted a pay cut/role change"

 

[FoBoT]

i have never been "unemployed"

one time i took a week off between jobs to move from NY to GA, otherwise, i have had a job since april 14 1986

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i have never been "unemployed"

one time i took a week off between jobs to move from NY to GA, otherwise, i have had a job since april 14 1986

you do take vacations though, right?

 

[pontifex]

i've only been laid off for like 2 weeks now.
I worked in IT, tech support, so i guess that could be listed under service?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i have never been "unemployed"

one time i took a week off between jobs to move from NY to GA, otherwise, i have had a job since april 14 1986

you do take vacations though, right?

yeah, but i am still employed while on vacation


i do have 712 hours of sick time
i don't get sick very often

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: Imp
Umm.. you forgot "Freeloading at home" under living status.

This probably means you're too young to be in the actual workforce so you really don't statistically count for this.

Edit: PS, why not add "Employed but having accepted a pay cut/role change"

You should tell that to my sibling who's working, been out of college over 5 years and still living at home. Oh, and many of my friends who are approaching 30 and doing the same.

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: Imp

You should tell that to my sibling who's working, been out of college over 5 years and still living at home. Oh, and many of my friends who are approaching 30 and doing the same.

No matter your physical age, if you are still living with your parents I don't consider you a constructive member of society.

If I EVER had to resort to the same situation for whatever reason, I would judge myself the same way and try my hardest to fix whatever had landed me there in the first place.

Of course taking care of a decrepit/injured parent is another story.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: Imp

You should tell that to my sibling who's working, been out of college over 5 years and still living at home. Oh, and many of my friends who are approaching 30 and doing the same.

No matter your physical age, if you are still living with your parents I don't consider you a constructive member of society.

If I EVER had to resort to the same situation for whatever reason, I would judge myself the same way and try my hardest to fix whatever had landed me there in the first place.

Of course taking care of a decrepit/injured parent is another story.

Ok, fair enough. Cultural clash here.

 

[idiotekniQues]

hi i'm tony dungy - and i'm unemployed

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i have never been "unemployed"

one time i took a week off between jobs to move from NY to GA, otherwise, i have had a job since april 14 1986

you do take vacations though, right?

yeah, but i am still employed while on vacation


i do have 712 hours of sick time
i don't get sick very often

sounds like you need to get sick for a few weeks..unless you work at one of those places that will fire you while you are gone ^_^

 

[nageov3t]

employed. I've been working at this job for a little over 5 years and haven't been "really" unemployed since I entered the workforce when I was 16... there were times when I didn't work, but by choice. I've never been fired from a job and I only quit to go back to school or after finding something better.

I rent, don't have trouble making my rent payments... I get paid on the 15th and 30th of every month. the lion's share of my 30th paycheck every month goes towards rent. if money's tight, my credit card bill is what suffers. I usually pay my CC after the rent check clears with whatever money is left over.

 

[BW86]

Employed
N/A
Living with Family
IT

 

[ggnl]

Luckily, my employer hasn't been hit very hard by the recession. No layoffs yet, and none planned.

 

[MustISO]

Still employed, no issues paying mortgage (2,000/mo)

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: Imp

You should tell that to my sibling who's working, been out of college over 5 years and still living at home. Oh, and many of my friends who are approaching 30 and doing the same.

No matter your physical age, if you are still living with your parents I don't consider you a constructive member of society.

If I EVER had to resort to the same situation for whatever reason, I would judge myself the same way and try my hardest to fix whatever had landed me there in the first place.

Of course taking care of a decrepit/injured parent is another story.

lol. I'm sorry that I'm spending a few months working/saving money at home after college before med school starts. I'd wager the patients I've taken care of, and research I've done, would be arguments for constructive input during this time. But hey, being ignorant is cool, too.

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
lol. I'm sorry that I'm spending a few months working/saving money at home after college before med school starts. I'd wager the patients I've taken care of, and research I've done, would be arguments for constructive input during this time. But hey, being ignorant is cool, too.

You could be Einstein for all I care, you still aren't contributing to what this country needs to stay afloat, part of which is a healthy real estate market. Sorry if that hurts the ego your medical profession gives you.

 

[IGBT]

..don't worry about it. when the obama starts the draft ya'll will have lots of jobs.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: Imp

You should tell that to my sibling who's working, been out of college over 5 years and still living at home. Oh, and many of my friends who are approaching 30 and doing the same.

No matter your physical age, if you are still living with your parents I don't consider you a constructive member of society.

If I EVER had to resort to the same situation for whatever reason, I would judge myself the same way and try my hardest to fix whatever had landed me there in the first place.

Of course taking care of a decrepit/injured parent is another story.

Living with parents a few years after college while working full time helps you save a ton of money. Like down payment on a new house type of money. You start renting and that's money you'll never see again. Too many in this culture are too quick to want their "freedom" rather than put themselves in a much better place financially (and everything else that comes after getting a house).

I think people need to consider this / themselves before the economy as a whole (which is being argued here - and not even the main reason people step out). Do people who move out right away even buy houses within 3 years and actually "help the market"? Do people who move out and rent right away help the market at all?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
lol. I'm sorry that I'm spending a few months working/saving money at home after college before med school starts. I'd wager the patients I've taken care of, and research I've done, would be arguments for constructive input during this time. But hey, being ignorant is cool, too.

You could be Einstein for all I care, you still aren't contributing to what this country needs to stay afloat, part of which is a healthy real estate market. Sorry if that hurts the ego your medical profession gives you.

That's almost exactly what I was going to post.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
lol. I'm sorry that I'm spending a few months working/saving money at home after college before med school starts. I'd wager the patients I've taken care of, and research I've done, would be arguments for constructive input during this time. But hey, being ignorant is cool, too.

You could be Einstein for all I care, you still aren't contributing to what this country needs to stay afloat, part of which is a healthy real estate market. Sorry if that hurts the ego your medical profession gives you.

you mean all these people who buy houses and can't afford them are healthy for the real estate market? isn't that part of the reason the economy is in such a mess right now?

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Saga

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
lol. I'm sorry that I'm spending a few months working/saving money at home after college before med school starts. I'd wager the patients I've taken care of, and research I've done, would be arguments for constructive input during this time. But hey, being ignorant is cool, too.

You could be Einstein for all I care, you still aren't contributing to what this country needs to stay afloat, part of which is a healthy real estate market. Sorry if that hurts the ego your medical profession gives you.

Are you honestly saying that because I don't own property I'm not contributing to the economy? Are you that obtuse? If it makes you feel better, I just purchased a condo in Florida for vacation property/investment purposes. Does that make me worthy? Nice dig at medical professionals, too; I'm not quite sure where the talk of ego comes from? Unless of course it's an extension of your landowner superiority complex? I guess we should just go back to only letting property owners vote. I suppose I could go into all the home owners who are in way over their heads because they overspent on their homes, but hey, they're still fighting the good fight to save the economy, right?