In light of massive nationwide layoffs, do you fear you might lose your job in the next year or two? I feel pretty secure with my job at the moment but anything could happen. I just pray that we will all make it throught this somehow.

I already lost mine in June and my EI benefits run out at the end of January.

I'm effectively screwed.

I feel safe with my job, I'm not in jeopardy or losing it. I feel for those who are getting layoff notices this month and next month, and for those who have lost their jobs.

damn, this is nationwide? a few businesses in my area have laid off a bunch of workers in the last few weeks. i don't need to worry about much though since i'm only working a volunteer position.

I work in the automotive industry and we are not safe as you can tell. I dont spend my time worrying or stressing out about it, but I keep it in the back of my mind. To be honest I dont know what I will do or what will happen. I'll just have to pray and hope like I always do.

That said a part of my also wont be dissapointed because quite frankly I dont like my job. Its boring and non challenging on an intellecutal level.

Yeah, but not because of the economy. More likely because of certain people at my work who are attempting to do something to screw my job over. If the student I work with ends up in a different room, I either lose my job or I quit. So I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but I'm pretty sure it will.

I'm going to try and keep my janitorial job at the church as much as I can.

Yes. I'm affraid that I might lose my job because of a new computer system that the college is changing over to.

I work at a grocery store so I honestly have no idea. Btw for all who participated in my last thread about my job, since the manager I had before was replaced, things have gone much better :)

I work at a grocery store so I honestly have no idea. Btw for all who participated in my last thread about my job, since the manager I had before was replaced, things have gone much better :)
that must be a relief. he's the one who didn't deserve to be there, not you.

I work at a grocery store so I honestly have no idea. Btw for all who participated in my last thread about my job, since the manager I had before was replaced, things have gone much better :)
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that must be a relief. he's the one who didn't deserve to be there, not you.

the woman there now is much nicer, and doesn't bring a negative attitude to work.

about losing jobs though, my mom, aunt, and my dad have all come close to losing their jobs this month, but thankfully they didn't and others that work with them were sent away.

I work at a grocery store so I honestly have no idea. Btw for all who participated in my last thread about my job, since the manager I had before was replaced, things have gone much better :)

That's good news!

the woman there now is much nicer, and doesn't bring a negative attitude to work.


That's good news. Hope everyone here will keep their jobs. Good luck to everyone. We have to just stay positive.

I sure hope I don't lose my job. I work with my family who runs this grocery store in my town. I could get over because I'm young and still have a lot to learn but my God, to my father, aunt and uncle this is all they know. I'd be more heartbroken for them than for me.

I sure hope I don't lose my job. I work with my family who runs this grocery store in my town. I could get over because I'm young and still have a lot to learn but my God, to my father, aunt and uncle this is all they know. I'd be more heartbroken for them than for me.


I'll pray for your family's business. Apparently it's the family businesses that are getting hurt the most right now. :(

I'll pray for your family's business. Apparently it's the family businesses that are getting hurt the most right now. :(

We're not doing as good as we usually do but we aren't in desparate mode. But with the predictiblity of the economy, who the hell knows. That was sweet, I hope you'll be fine through this madness too. :wave:

We've already had a couple of lay-off's where I work & there's talk of another one after the first of the year, so I am very worried.

Well, in October my mom thought she would lose her job because of what department, how much she made and how long she was there for.

But she got transferred to another department and is still working at the company.

My sister didn't get laid off but it sounds like they are eliminating people at her company. My brother in law got a raise and a promotion in his job.

As far as I know my dad, stepmom are working as is my aunt.

Me, well, I don't know. I do work at a clothing store but I kinda do janitorial stuff before doing go backs and stuff. Store the last few days was really slow and manager told me she hates to cut hours..

I have several friends who have lost jobs. One is a Nurse, one is a Secretary and one is a Lawyer with a firm that is struggling.
My sister is at high risk of losing her job and she's a widow. My son may lose his job any day.
My husband's company is down to only working a few days a week.

Over 4 million people have lost jobs.
An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a century, as economic carnage spread ever faster and the nation hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard times since the Great Depression.

Some analysts predict 3 million more jobs will be lost between now and the spring of 2010.

The United States — already in recession for a year, may not be out of it until the spring of 2010 — making for the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, economists are now saying.

That said, more pain is certainly in store. According to Obama, things will get much worse before it gets better.
President-elect Obama said the dismal job news underscored the need for forceful action, even as he warned that the pain could not be quickly relieved.

A record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage was either at least a month behind on payments or in foreclosure at the end of September, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported.

On a personal level, right before Thanksgiving, Mark Pierce, 51, who was executive pastor at a church in Mansfield, Ohio, was given a choice: get laid off or take a lesser job with a roughly 40 percent pay cut. His last day of work was Tuesday.

No Job is safe from lay off anymore.