[vikingcelt]

Thanks for your comments and, yes, I wonder what these posters here with their smart-ass comments will do after that layoff notice comes. It's not exactly easy out there these days...especially if you are an older, white American male.

[SauronOfMordor]

When the blue-collar jobs were going, and the factories closing, I didn't think it would happen to me and my friends.

Last week I ran into a guy I knew years ago. A few years back, he was a middle-manager for software quality assurance for IBM. Last week, he rang up my purchases at the supermarket. My brother-in-law was a consultant for KPMG a few years back. Now he sells tennis stuff

The new reality is that there is no job that is secure. Not manufactoring (gone to china), not construction (taken over by illegal immigrants) not technology (outsourced to India or China, or taken over by H1Bs).

There was one smug freeper on another thread who was not worried. He's a sales rep for an outsourcing firm. He does not yet realize that the people in India who currently man call centers will also be able to make sales calls.

[glory]

BTDT, twice in 18 months--YAWN--you learn to deal with it.