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Old 11-14-08, 04:20   #97 (permalink)
Len_A
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Re: Should the government bail-out include domestic automakers?

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Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy View Post
One of the posters in this thread has been out of work for 14 months, probably thru no fault of his own, but a guy who got FIRED gets $200 million. Your assessment of "why give it to the people who screwed it up" fits pretty well with letting Paulson and Bernanke run the bailout when they were the ones in charge when it blew up.
Yep. Out for 14 months, and I didn't get fired. My company got bought out, and the new owner brought in his own management team. openings were skimpy to begin with, when I got laid off in September, 2007, but after the price of gas started to really spike upward, earlier this year, the openings really dried up. And since then, I'm hearing from the few people I have interviewed with, the employers are really getting picky on filling the openings. I've seen the same company run the same job posting in Careerbuilder and Monster three or four times, or more. One company I know ran the same help wanted ad eight times since last September.

Bob Nardelli, who ran Home Depot (almost into the ground), would not have been my choice to run Chrysler, but somehow he recruited Jim Press away from Toyota.
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