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Hallmark introduces layoff greeting cards
Biz Journals ^ | 9-23-11 | Nashville Business Journal

Posted on 09/26/2011 9:34:46 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

"They sent us letters. They phoned it in. They asked their retailers, you know, in their neighborhood, where do I find a card that says this?” Hallmark Creative Director Derek McCracken told NPR. “And again, loss of job, like any loss, is a grieving process. And so we have to acknowledge as soon as possible what had happened and then try to support them. So that's where we kind of offer more cards on the, you'll get through this, versus dwelling on the loss of the job itself.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bizjournals.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cards; hallmark; jobs; napl; obmanomics
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the new norm...
1 posted on 09/26/2011 9:34:54 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

This is a joke, right? What next? Have a happy abortion cards?


2 posted on 09/26/2011 9:36:43 AM PDT by juliej
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Do they look like this?


3 posted on 09/26/2011 9:38:24 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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4 posted on 09/26/2011 9:38:24 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Rush just mentioned these on his show... one of the cards “Don’t think of it as a layoff - think of it as a break between stupid bosses”...


5 posted on 09/26/2011 9:38:53 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I can’t wait to send one of these cards to the WH after the Presidential election.


6 posted on 09/26/2011 9:38:53 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“the new norm...”

Well, it is obviously the “norm” if cards are being printed just for this type of thing. I have sent a “thinking of you” card along with a casserole and a pound cake to several people who have been laid off. I know it isn’t much but hope that the person feels that someone feels their loss.


7 posted on 09/26/2011 9:39:17 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I guess National Grandfathers Day on 9/11 didn’t sell enough cards.

Hallmark: Always ready to jump in with a card. For a price.


8 posted on 09/26/2011 9:43:13 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
The Layoff card has the message on the outside.

“Why send a crummy card, being laidoff isn't funny,
if you want to send a gift, send a little money!”

9 posted on 09/26/2011 9:43:47 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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10 posted on 09/26/2011 9:43:47 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
A lot of people are affected by layoffs. It seems to be a more specific version of a card to express regret about one's circumstances.

At least they didn't come out with a "So Sorry Your Parents Are Gone" card after the Menendez brother's trial. /sarc

11 posted on 09/26/2011 9:46:48 AM PDT by ken in texas (Can't Afford a Tagline... send money.)
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To: JoeProBono
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
We all think you're swell
But we're downsizing you!
12 posted on 09/26/2011 9:47:12 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: JoeProBono

This is grisly. It’s sick.


13 posted on 09/26/2011 9:47:21 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

LOL. This is just Hallmark finding a new way to gin up some business and make a couple $$$$$$. They aren’t giving the cards away. This says more about how Hallmark flogs certain days and events to generate business. Grandparents’ day, layoffs, cards for when you just feel sick (and aren’t in the hospital), and then the ultimate, “Just Thinking of You” card for the days that have no special event. Mindless consumerism.


14 posted on 09/26/2011 9:48:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Keith in Iowa

Next Hallmark will have a celebratory DADT for newly “out of the closet” military members.

It wouldn’t surprise me.


15 posted on 09/26/2011 9:48:55 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Is there one for Obama?


16 posted on 09/26/2011 9:49:33 AM PDT by Clay+Iron_Times (Time to make a stand, Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Obviously so


17 posted on 09/26/2011 9:50:59 AM PDT by Clay+Iron_Times (Time to make a stand, Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
You Voted For Obama Insanely

Hope You Enjoy Your Hopey- Changey

18 posted on 09/26/2011 9:52:07 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!...P.S. Why did FR ZOT Frantzie?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I don’t normally support Hallmark, but....!!!

Send these to WH and leading House & Senate Dem’s!!!

include a few comments about how capitalism works and socialism fails every time it’s tried.
also include:
“Hope you’ve bought enough lobbyists to stay employed”


19 posted on 09/26/2011 9:54:46 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: RckyRaCoCo
I lost my job building the intercontinental railroad so I moved to the 57th state to get that three letter word...jobs.
20 posted on 09/26/2011 9:55:38 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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