[holdmuhbeer]

The first thing they'll try to do is get back some workers that they let go, but many of those people have already taken career turns.... Companies are being very shortsighted at this point."

It will serve the greedy bastards right too, what goes around comes around.

[new cruelty]

hehe.

[CO_dreamer]

Phht. They'll just hire H1B Indians and Chinese.

[caisson71]

We'll see a turnaround when extended unemployment benefits start running out.

[banjo joe]

And they are displeased that half the workforce will pounce on better opportunity?
Har! Snivel... "where's the loyalty?".

[biblewonk]

I'm ready to quit engineering and drive a beer truck for 40 percent the pay.

[JimFreedom]

Good! They let me go in OCT 2001. 35 years IT and management experience. If they beg me maybe I will help them out from my terminal which will be located on a Caribbean Island. They can Kiss my a**.

[bimbo]

It will serve the greedy bastards right too, what goes around comes around.

The Greedy Bastards will not be suffering … There is no worker shortage, and there won’t be one in ten years. However, there is a shortage in the U.S. of workers willing to work for $2.00 per day. Eyeing such a labor pool in India and China makes the Greedy Bastards … well, Greedy.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

It will serve the greedy bastards right too, what goes around comes around.

There was a job in the town where I live that I both desperately needed and was an almost perfect fit for. The employer decided that almost perfect wasn't good enough.

Someday those sons of bitches may be begging for a good worker. If and when that day ever comes, I have to say it would be tempting to apply just for the hell of it (my qualifications will be even better by then), and then when they offer me a job, politely tell them, "I wasn't good enough for you before, so this time you can take your need and shove it up your..."