Anonymous voice of America's unemployed: "Anonymous voice of America's unemployed


Mar. 4, 2004 12:00 AM
This week I got a call from America, who happens to be a 43-year-old unemployed woman living in the Valley. She is angry. She is sad. America got my answering machine and left a message. George Bush's line must have been busy. John Kerry was probably out of town.

The woman on my recording does not actually claim to be America, but she is. She is a mother and a wife whose husband also recently lost his job. There are millions like her, she says, and no one is paying attention."

 
US House members to offer anti-offshore jobs bill: "US House members to offer anti-offshore jobs bill
Tuesday March 2, 1:51 pm ET
By David Zielenziger
NEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - About 50 U.S. House of Representatives members plan to introduce a bill on Wednesday that would deny U.S. companies federal financing and loan guarantees if they shift U.S. jobs overseas.

The proposed Defending American Jobs Act was written by Rep. Bernard Sanders, Independent of Vermont, and will be co-sponsored by about 50 other representatives, including Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Virgil Goode of Virginia.
Warren Gunnels, Sanders' legislative aide, said it's the first national attempt to deal with the issue of 'offshoring,' or sending U.S. manufacturing and service jobs to lower-cost venues abroad"

 
You know you work for the government when:

1. The process becomes more important than the product.

2. You don't see anything wrong with attending a meeting on a
subject you know nothing about.

3. You feel you contributed to the meeting just by being there.

4. You stop raising issues/problems because you know you will be
the one answering them.

5. You fly first class across the country to attend a conference
with 100+ people to discuss the fact that the project does not have
enough money.

6. You work for an acronym, on an acronym, and your job title is an
acronym.

7. You understand the rationalization of an acronym composed of
acronyms.

8. You know that the location of a meeting is directly related to
its importance. (A meeting at Fort Hood requires a subordinate or a
contractor, but the same meeting at Lake Tahoe requires your personal
attention.)

9. You've sat at the same desk for three years, done the same thing
for three years, but have had three different business cards.

 
Gateway to Cut Another 1,000 Jobs: "Gateway to Cut Another 1,000 Jobs

Tuesday March 2, 3:08 pm ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Personal computer and consumer electronics gear maker Gateway Inc. (NYSE:GTW - News) has cut about 1,000 jobs this year and will cut another 1,000 in the next few months, bringing the number of employees down to about 5,500, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.

The cuts by Gateway, which expects to close its acquisition of closely held PC maker eMachines Inc. around March 8, are part of a restructuring announced in September 2003, the spokesman said. Gateway said then it would outsource certain service and support operations, as well as some administrative functions."