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Last week was brutal for the workplace, with U.S. companies - like Caterpillar, Boeing, Sprint Nextel and Target - cutting more than 80,000 jobs all told. Losing your paycheck in a recession is certainly awful, and those who hold on to their jobs are no doubt better off than their fallen colleagues. But watching colleagues pack their things and go - and dealing with guilt that it wasn't you, anxiety that you might be next, exhaustion from the extra work you must take on and even envy of those who get to leave such a sullen environment - that's not much...
...SPRINT NEXTEL...
...cuts, is the behemoth of software, silently manipulating ones and zeros. Worlds apart, they've come together in the layoff business. Whether a company chops trees (Weyerhaeuser) or prices (Target), whether it sells Lipitor (Pfizer) or lumber (Home Depot), whether it services oil rigs (Baker Hughes) or cell phones (Sprint Nextel), job one is cutting payroll...
...seems impossible that a handful of companies could put nearly 80,000 people out of work in a day. Caterpillar (CAT), Pfizer (PFE), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), and Home Depot (HD) did most of the damage. What was not seen in the headlines was the thousands of smaller American firms which also fired people over the same 24-hours. Could 200,000 people across the economy have been put out of work in one day? Of course...
...excited to see what happens down the road.” Rookie Jeanne Mack also competed in the event, finishing at 1:42.53 for 18th. O’Callaghan, Looney, and Mack also teamed up with senior Jan Ng to place sixth in the women’s 1600 sprint medley with a time of 4:24.59. Despite just limited action over the weekend—further truncated by the inclement weather—Saretsky remains confident with where the squad stands with a full schedule of in-town meets forthcoming. “From wire to wire, we executed...