Tag: April

Confirmed : A large amount of Lay offs in April and May!

Paul

Hired & Laid off within 2 hours! Help me efreshin, recession Lemonade $1

It’s looking like a big problem coming our way!

  • Gulf Stevedoring Services, LLC  – 11 to 50 People –  4/30/2024
  • Safran Cabin, Inc. – 251 -500 People –  4/30/2024
  • Denbury Inc – 101 – 250 People –  4/30/204
  • Expedia – 101 – 250 People – 4/30/2024
  • BuzzFeed – 51 to 100 People – 4/30/2024
  • Levi Strauss & Co. – 101 to 250 People – 4/27/2024
  • Del Monte Foods, Inc. – 101 to 250 People – 4/26/2024
  • UPS – 251 to 500 People – 4/27/2024
  • Rio Grand Valley Sugar Growers – 251 to 500 People – 4/29/2024 (*)
  • AVMAC LLC – 101 to 250 People – 4/30/2024
  • RaterLabs – 2501 to 5,000 People – 4/6/2024
  • Walmart – 101 – 250 People – 5/31/2024
  • Cisco –  451 to 1000 People – 4/15/2024

I perused the Warntracker and got some of the data to show you just how much this might a be problem coming to all of us.    As of writing this today 3/12/2024, this could become even more people who will be told they are laid off.   The real question is, are you keeping track of your own company that you are working for to help you prevent yourself from getting laid off.   If you are in a big company and you are worried you might be next the best thing I can tell you to do is create alerts for you using Google and have them be sent to you as soon as Google finds out about it.  Google will send that to your email when and how often you tell it to.   As of right now Q1 is almost to the 50,000 employees who have been laid off.

Picture from Layoffs.fyi

My thoughts

Other than Rio Grand Valley Sugar Growers, All the other ones are probably not normal.   I don’t know about Rio Grand and if they are laying people off due to growing seasons but I do not think this is going to end well for the industry as a whole.  Each one of these are not just tech but are in the Retail, Technology, food, and other areas.  So you can see this will impact a lot of people around the US and the world to be able to find a job.   I’ve talked about finding a job is hard right now, this will make even harder for everyone to do so many people will be looking for work if they don’t get severance pay or some kind of pay.   They will not be able to get unemployment for a while if they are claiming severance and that could cause problems down the road for other workers.  What we will see in the coming months are people working harder for less pay, I am almost sure of that, if something isn’t done and the Fed will probably not cut interest rates right now due to down turn of the economy.  This will be a short blog post but it should show you to at least be watchful of what to come.

You asked for it, Now it’s real — Vista SP2 Dec 4,2008

Paul

Beginning Thursday Dec. 4th, we will be making the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta available to everyone through a Customer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP will launch on TechNet and be available to anyone interested in trying out this service pack. The CPP is intended for technology enthusiasts, developers, and IT Pros who would like to test Service Pack 2 in their environments and with their applications prior to final release. For most customers, our best advice would be to wait until the final release prior to installing this service pack.

[Via Technet]

[ad#ad2-right]Yes you heard right, you can get into the Beta of Vista SP2 and not have to wait till April.  Some things to remember:

  • It is a Beta

  • It will Have Bugs

  • It is for people who want to test it out

  • It should only be installed for people who need to test it out

Some of the changes that they are going to incorporate into Sp2 are support for new types of hardware and emerging standards that will grow in importance in the coming months.  The complete list of changes can be found here.   I will be testing this out sometime this weekend to give it a full thorough check out.   I will give a report later on this month possibly first part on January I would like to give it a complete test.   To test it out yourself, check out this link for directions on how to download it.

Vista To release Service Pack 2 in April 2009

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[ad#digg-right] Some sources are reporting that Vista SP2 will be out in April.   According to Engadget they claim TechARP is a bunch of Malaysian Kids that like to boast about how they broke the Vista SP1 and XP SP3 release schedules to the world.  They claim though that Vista Release candidate is to be out around February.Microsoft has indicated that this SP3 will include Windows Search 4, Bluetooth 2.1 wireless support, faster resume from sleep when a wireless connection has been broken and support for Blu-ray.   I personally think it will include some of Windows 7 features to better get people accustomed to Windows 7 when they come out.

[ad#ad2-left]Although this is speculation and no hard evidence I think it has some merit due to the fact that Microsoft has admitted in the past that Vista was a big Letdown.  I don’t think they can any more to damage than they have already done.   If anything Windows 7 will be a easy Success if they pull it off in the right way!!!  Although with WIndows 7 be leaked online there is no telling what will happen. I am sure what ever happens will be interesting to say the least!!!

Rumor: GE to be the next to layoff its workers!!

Paul

GE to Layoff 11,000 Workers!! GE to Layoff it workers!

According to sources of friends close to me, their seems to be a consensus that there will be a major layoff coming from GE. My source is talking about it being a lot of people will be laid off and that it will start happening in the coming weeks.

According to Yahoo Finance saying this “52 week change of GE is -50.86% from last year. ”

[ad#ad2-right-1]Now last year this time there Stock Price was 38.38 a Share and now they are 18.60 a share.  They dropped -19.78 over the year.   The seemed to get close to the 38.38 a share on April 4, 2008 with making  37.56 a share.  That was there highest this year, due to the fact that people were getting there income tax refunds in the mail.    Also NYSE says they had a slight increase in July and Aug, that is due to the Stimulus package that we got in 2008.

Now I’m not a financial expert in the least.  I just see what I see with stock prices.  These could mean they are doing extremely well, or they could indicate that the company is planning on laying people off.  I’m just trying to provide a background on why they might lay people off.  We are getting to he point of becoming a Depression and no longer a Recession.  What do you think?