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Well, absolutely, but there is no reason to withhold human kindness in the process! We have some very nasty people that go out of their way to mess with people and I have a problem with that. I'm just lucky that I'm not a target!
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There are a lot of changes going on where I work:
*Vacation has changed to PTO (personal time off). Okay, when I am out a week on ‘vacation’, call it PTO if you want. But other changes happened too.
*If you need to be gone for more than 2 hours, it comes out of PTO.
*If you were sick before, you didn’t get sick days, but still you could stay home and get better. Don’t come in and make other people sick. Now it comes out of PTO. So rather than use PTO, people come to work sick, spread it around and the company looses productivity.
*We used to have flex time, come in at 6:30 and leave at 3:00 or 3:30 depending on if you were hourly or salary. Worked great for those with kids. I would come in at 7:00 and out at 4:00. I could get home and make supper and do my online classes. Now everyone is supposed to work 8-5 unless there is a business reason to have a different schedule.
*You have an hour for lunch. If you leave the building, fine, you are at lunch, but if you are at your desk, they ask you to work.
Maybe these are common place at other companies, but it is such a big change where I work, and coming very quickly, it is discouraging. Well, that change and that I haven’t had a raise in 28 months. I guess it is better than a pay cut. My last meeting with the boss/owner, I was reminded that I could be replaced for a lot less money.
I just love
coming here every day. 
DonComment
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Land O'Lakes to close Madison Dairy
April 15, 2009
MADISON, Wis. - Land O'Lakes Inc. plans to close its butter
manufacturing plant in Madison and lay off 120 employees.
The cooperative based in St. Paul, Minn., said Madison Dairy would close
within 60 days because it no longer is economically feasible to operate.Comment
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No more Land O Lakes Butter? I hope not!
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I'm with you.....I love their butter, and their American Cheese, too.Originally posted by billymach4No more Land O Lakes Butter? I hope not!
Angela
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.
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I am a CPA in the Chicagoland area and my office prepares approx 800 individual tax returns and 150 business return.
What I can tell you is that out of all the returns I prepared and clients I met with this year about 75% have been affected by this economy.
Many are living with one or both spouses unemployed. Others have had their pay cut and are working more hours and picking up the slack for their fellow co-workers that have been laid off.
There were very few people who weren't worried about job security or where their own business were heading.
Unemployment is over 9% in Illinois but I believe this is understated and doesn't include the people who have taken pay cuts and their unemployment benefits have run outComment
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We had an engineering meeting yesterday, and the boss starts out with the info about how tough it has been. March and April will not break even. He is looking into 32 hour work weeks or pay cuts. My last pay increase was 2-1/2 years ago,
and now it may go down. But I am still working. 
DonComment
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New York Snack Vendor Evicted Over Huge Rent Bill
Aug 2009
A New York City hot dog vendor has been evicted from his prize spot outside
the Metropolitan Museum of Art because he couldn't pay a whopping rent bill
of nearly $54,000 a month - almost $643,000 per year for the vending rights.Comment
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Bad economic times hitting the county I live in, hard..... (Long Island Blog)
Bankruptcy Season
Economy: Jobs Down; Unemployment Up; Bankruptcy Up
Many Owners of Million Dollar Homes Filing for Bankruptcy
Benefits of Bankruptcy and (NY) Bankruptcy Information
Long Island Bankruptcy Blog |Comment
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I have been posting BLS Branson unemployment figures on a Branson forum, which makes me quite unpopular there. The frequent users of that site is made of of Branson lovers who want nothing changed and never admit to anything being wrong with the place.
What the facts show is that there are about 3500 folks more than normal on unemployment, on top of about that number that have dropped out of the labor force altogether. Despite significant development the past five years, employment levels were actually higher 10 years ago.
Real estate sales are all but nonexistent, and at depressed prices. Of course, the RE people spin that to their favor, talking about what a great time it is to buy.
I picked up a local paper on the way to the airport because it had a story about one local county slashing millions of dollars from their road fund and the other local county not being able to get a second on their budget proposal.
I left that paper on the dash, so I didn't get to read it.
RCI Member Since 24-Aug-1989/150-plus Exchanges***THE TIMESHARE GRIM REAPER~~~Exchanging/Searching/SW Florida/MO/AR/IA/Consumer Advocacy/Estate Planning/Sports/Boating/Fishing/Golf/Lake-living/Retirement****Sometimes ya just gotta be a dickComment
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With so many people out of work and/or less money coming
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