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Charlotte bracing for Wachovia job cuts06:29 PM EDT on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 By MARK BOONE / WCNC E-mail Mark: MBoone@WCNC.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mecklenburg County’s second-largest employer said Tuesday it would cut nearly 11,000 jobs as Wachovia announced a second quarter loss of $8.9 billion. The bank employs more than 20,000 people, ranking just under Carolinas Healthcare System in number of workers, according to data from the Charlotte Chamber. Many of Wachovia’s positions are expected to be trimmed from the company’s Charlotte offices, said Dr. Tony Plath, an associate professor of finance at UNC-Charlotte. “Any way you look at...

My Brother-In-Law, my sister and their family have lived outside of Naples, Italy for years. He supports the Navy as a GS worker and their policy is that you can only spend so many years overseas before you have to come back to the states. One of their options is supporting a base in Corpus Christi, TX. My sister has looked online and found that a lot of people trash the place. Is the city really that bad (remember, they lived near Naples, home of mafiosi and piles of trash)? Are there safe towns with good schools are are a...

Well friends I have finally decided to leave China. I am living at home in Kansas City with my wife and baby. If any of you freepers out there are in need of a good, honest, conservative employee then I am in the job market. I have the following skills. Education Administration Management Web publishing International consulting Office and Clerical. 80 wpm Very good computer skills Very good people skills 3 Years in the Marines 3 Years in the Army B.A. in History with a Theater Minor. Thanks guys.

WUHAN, CHINA -- Sun Yuanping skipped her college graduation ceremony for a job interview. It was all-day affair and the bookish 22-year-old felt good about it. After all, she has degrees in marketing and botany from well-regarded school in this central Chinese city, and she ranked in the top fifth of her class. Sun never heard back from that prospective employer nor from dozens of other companies and government agencies where she has applied since she graduated in June. Recently, after tearful self-reflection and long nights tossing in bed, she pared down expectations and began sending her resume to small...

CBS is expanding its coverage of the environment. We seek a talented reporter/host for Internet video broadcast. We are looking for smart, creative, hard working up and comers, who can bring great energy, creativity and a dash of humor to our coverage. A deep interest in the environment and sustainability issues will serve you well. You are wicked smart, funny, irreverent and hip, oozing enthusiasm and creative energy. This position requires strong people, reporting, story telling and writing skills. Managing tight deadlines should be second nature. Knowledge of the enviro beat is a big plus, but not a requirement. Responsibilities...

Wanted: Smart, outgoing and energetic men and women to serve drinks and food at a new downtown St. Louis casino. All the better if you have modeling, acting, dancing, singing or cheerleading experience. Oh, and one other thing: It never hurts to be pretty. Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. is in the midst of a massive hiring spree to fill some 1,200 jobs needed to run its $495 million Lumière Place when it opens in December. But none of the jobs will attract as much attention as the so-called Ladies and Gents of Lumière.

Every time John Remore steps up to his workstation to form a piece of sheet metal, he brings an intangible asset to the job: 42 years of experience, dating to lessons from his father.

Ok fine send Libby to prison - - -How would that work out? let's see - how long will it take before someone there gets key information out of him, then resells it one of America's enemys? . . . Really this has nothing to do with "playing politics" and everything to do with Politics. I don't see favortism as the key for Bush's decision to commutate Libby. What I see Bush doing is keeping America Safe. Let's face it; Libby just plan and simply knows tooo dang much secret information.

Dear FRiends, I have an employment opportunity I am seriously considering. Although right now, it is local, there is a strong possibility that sometime in the future I would be asked, or could choose, to relocate to Florida, specifically the Fort Lauderdale area. I'm currently single, in my late 30s, but I still have hopes of having a family. I've been told by people that work for this company that they have a difficult time getting people with families to locate from the midwest to Florida. The general feeling up here is that Florida isn't exactly a "family friendly" place...

Who is Recart IAC? Recart IAC is a software development firm. They have developed a flexible and configurable bloatware application that allows companies to improve the process of micro-managing just about anything. Well almost anything. Well, anything that follows the predefined steps and processes that Recart IAC uses. OK, maybe it isn't so flexible. OK, it isn't flexible at all. And configurable? Well if you wear a beanie with a propeller, a pocket protector, high water pants, suspenders, snort when you laugh and just for good measure are still a virgin, you may have a chance of understanding the process...

96 years spent in same house - with same job By Stewart Payne Last Updated: 2:05am BST 09/05/2007 The world around him has changed almost beyond recognition, but throughout his 96 years Alex Baker has lived in the same house, spending his entire working life with the same company. Born in 1911 as the Norwegian explorer Capt Roald Amundsen was beating Scott to the South Pole, he was the last of 10 children who all lived with their parents in a two-up, two-down terrace house in Portsmouth, Hants. He grew up in an age when young men looked for jobs...

Americans are growing increasingly unhappy with their jobs, The Conference Board reports today. The decline in job satisfaction is widespread among workers of all ages and across all income brackets. Half of all Americans today say they are satisfied with their jobs, down from nearly 60 percent in 1995. But among the 50 percent who say they are content, only 14 percent say they are “very satisfied.” This report, which is based on a representative sample of 5,000 U.S. households, conducted for The Conference Board by TNS, a leading market information company (LSE: TNN), also includes information collected independently by...

More than four out of five U.S. workers do not have their dream jobs, which most people describe as work that is fun, according to a survey released on Thursday. Salary was one of the least important requirements of a dream job, cited by just 12 percent of respondents in the survey by CareerBuilder.com, an online job site, and The Walt Disney Co , which is holding a contest in which winners can get a chance to work at a Disney theme park job for a day. ...Fields with the least number of workers with dream jobs were accommodations and...

When he left CBS News last June after 44 years, Dan Rather leapt right into a new news gig at HDNet and never looked back. But if the former Evening News anchor was looking to forget about the flawed 2004 report on President Bush’s National Guard service that led to his ignominious departure from the network, he might have picked a different address to set up shop. "One of the guys [on my team] had located a space," Rather told B&C in an interview last week. "And he says to me, ‘I want to recommend it, but there’s a problem.’...

CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo, Nov. 14, 2006 -- Last week’s national elections will have no impact on how the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff carries out his job, including his recommendations about Iraq, Marine Gen. Peter Pace told National Guard troops here today. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrives at Kosovo and is introduced to U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Darren Owens, commander of Kosovo Force Multinational Brigade (East), by German Lt. Gen. Roland Kather, commander of Kosovo Forces, Nov. 14. Photo by Staff Sgt D. Myles Cullen, USAF  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO (Oct. 6, 2006) -- Leaving behind the world of cartoon art and an opportunity of a lifetime to work at Disney/Pixar, Inc., one man chose to pick up an M16-A2 service rifle and train to become one of the few and the proud. Pfc. Nathaniel W. Griggs, Platoon 2017, graduated from Marine Corps recruit training today to make his dream of becoming a Marine come true. When Griggs was in the delayed entry program in his hometown of Moline, Ill., he entered a piece of art, created with ink pen and colored pencil, into...

Bond official downplays daughter's job with firm Ethics concerns arise after she sends e-mails Friday, September 15, 2006 By Robert Travis Scott Capital bureau BATON ROUGE -- The daughter of the State Bond Commission's top manager is employed as an intern with a major underwriter that recently won contracts to help handle more than $1.5 billion in business for the commission. Whitney Kling, the 22-year-old daughter of Bond Commission Director Whit Kling, signed e-mail correspondence to financial firms related to commission transactions, raising questions of whether her work violated the state Code of Ethics or created the appearance of an...

Fat is not a feminist issue, as Susie Orbach once claimed. Fat is a class issue. Rich, educated people are not fat; you see almost no children in private schools who are overweight. Fatness and obesity are directly related to lower education and lower incomes. What is sad is that at a time when this country is richer than ever and ought to have better schools than ever, we have far more fat people than ever — a dangerous explosion of flab. Last week the Department of Health issued a report grimly called Forecasting Obesity to 2010 and its findings...

Forgive my venting, but I've got to tell somebody. This is the second time in my 15+ year legal career that I've been in this unfortunate position. I'm a general corporate counsel, and took a job in a publicly traded company 8 months ago. I get along well with the general counsel I report to. We never talk politics,but there was always something odd about his behavior. Yesterday in a conference call I found out what it was, and I quote:"Mr. X., I'm honored to meet you. I'm a big Democrat, and I admire your relationship with Bill Clinton".Well, that...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 11, 2006 -- Bettering the lives of Iraqi youngsters is what Peter Debski says is the best part of his job. Project engineer Peter Debski poses for a photo with local children at a youth center in Baghdad’s Kadamiyah district in February. Debski said renovating the facility is one of the most fulfilling things he’s done in his career. Photo by Norris Jones  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. He’s been involved in overseeing millions of dollars of reconstruction work in and around Baghdad over the past 10 months, including new water and sewer networks, electrical distribution...

A European company has the right to refuse employment to smokers, European Commissioner for employment and equal opportunities of Employers Vladimir Spidla has confirmed. Scottish Labour MEP Catherine Stihler brought the issue to the commission after Irish call-centre company Dotcom Directories had advertised for a worker but said smokers needed not apply. "If people are smoking on a coffee break or in their own time they come back into the office and they stink. We have a small office here and it would make things unbearable for the other staff", said Philip Tobin, director of Dotcom Directories in a radio...

LOS ANGELES -- Hacking and gasping, Irma Ortiz could cart her groceries only so far before she'd catch other shoppers glaring at her. Mortified, she'd abandon her cart on the spot and bolt for the door. Frank Herrera could gun his dirt bike only so far before choking on the rush of air. Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Exasperated, he gave up riding. Ortiz, 44, and Herrera, 34, are odd candidates for lung transplants, being nonsmokers and having considerable youth on their side. How they lost 70 to 80 percent of their breathing capacity is no less astonishing. They acquired the...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2006 – No job is too lowly or inconsequential if it contributes to the overall mission, and it's up to leaders to ensure their people know the importance of their contribution, a senior Army leader said yesterday. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen D. Mundt, director of Army aviation, shared his insights after being asked his thoughts about some Army aviators frustrated that they're pulling non-flying duties during their deployments. His response applies not just to aviators, he said, but to troops across the board. The long war on terror requires that troops need to do the job that's...

(PRWEB) July 8, 2006 -- As Independence weekend celebrations spread throughout the United States, V.I.P. Promotions Founder/CEO Tommy Nero interviewed U.S. Army Captain James Van Thach while he was spending his July 4th, weekend deployed to Baghdad, Iraq on his first overseas tour of duty. "It's so unusual these days, Captain Thach, to find young people even thinking about devoting their lives to something greater than themselves May I ask why you volunteered to join the Infantry after finishing Touro Law School?" "Mr. Nero, there are higher callings in life than just focusing on building a very comfortable lifestyle for...

Jack Welch gives advice on how the new graduate can succeed in American companies. It seems to be good advice to succeed in any company -- anywhere. His number one piece of advice: OVERDELIVER - This is very un-American -- and very un-student-like. In school, students learn to meet certain objectives -- answer certain questions within certain time parameters. In the workforce -- it's not that way anymore. To get an A+ in business, Welch says, a person -- 22 years old or 62 years old -- needs to: 1. Expand the organization's expectations of what you can do --...

<p>In this season that launches a new class of graduates on their careers, here's a tip: It's not just about the work — it's about the people.</p> <p>That's a basic tenet of the workplace, and it means you'd be smart to pick out the different personality types that inhabit the office, make wise alliances with some and guard yourself against others.</p>

Not far from the ornate halls of Congress, politicians nearly every day settle into borrowed chairs in small offices, strap on phone headsets and make dozens or sometimes hundreds of calls. They're dialing for dollars, a legal and integral part of life in Washington, D.C., state capitals and local governments across the country. In between votes on the floor, trips back to their districts and public appearances, lawmakers make an endless round of frenzied fundraising calls to pay for their own re-election campaigns or collect money to help their colleagues keep their seats. Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Redlands, is among those...

USA Citizens Day - July 1st Immigration Control Rally Nationwide Rally on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at your City HallMay 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally for Immigration ControlRally to stop our continuous invasion by...

5/15/2006 - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Staff Sgt. Robert Van Hulle is a dog’s best friend at this busy airlift base. And military working dog Diego, a Belgian Malinois, appreciates that. The security forces sergeant met Diego and his partner, Staff Sgt. Markus Hunt, when they transited Ramstein on their way home after a tour in Southwest Asia. That’s part of the sergeant’s job. He is the liaison for all military dog handlers and their K-9 partners transiting the base. He finds the handler and the dog a place to spend the night and also finds them a...

Successes or failures of employees in the workplace can be traced to what kind of father they had, a psychologist argues in a new book. In "The Father Factor," Stephan Poulter lists five styles of fathers -- super-achieving, time bomb, passive, absent and compassionate/mentor -- who have powerful influences on the careers of their sons and daughters. Children of the "time-bomb" father, for example, who explodes in anger at his family, learn how to read people and their moods. Those intuitive abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes. But those same children may...

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2006 – Mark S. Wrighton was just entering his teen years when the Navy moved his family from Patuxent, Md., to Argentia, Newfoundland. Naval "military brat" Mark S. Wrighton took what he learned from his youth and succeeded in the academic world. The former chemistry professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is currently the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. At the time his father was a flight engineer on an extension of the Distant Early Warning Line. The early 1960s Cuban missile crisis was...

4/27/2006 - SATHER AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- One might think explosive ordnance disposal troops are adrenalin junkies. But they are meticulous about their work and don’t take unnecessary risks. However, because they deal with explosives placed by the enemy, the risk is real. “We all know the consequences,” said Tech. Sgt. William Sistler, a 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron EOD team chief. “But we don’t think about it.” Since January, the EOD Airmen here responded more than 340 times in an area of responsibility covering 500 square miles. Even though they face the chance of injury or death every...

City Council members have so far managed to keep Wal-Mart out of the city, but they can't stop New York City residents from shopping at Wal-Mart. The nation's largest retailer will announce today that city residents are heading to suburban Wal-Mart stores in record numbers - spending 30% more at the region's half dozen or so Wal-Mart stores last year than they did in 2004. The retailer hopes these statistics will persuade City Council members to approve Wal-Mart stores within the five boroughs. Using credit card data, the company says city residents spent about $128 million in 2005 at stores...

McDonald's has begun outsourcing drive-through orders in 40 of its restaurants, using 125 workers at a call center in California and submitting orders back over the Internet. The process saves "seconds" on each order. Workers make $6.75 an hour, get no health benefits and handle up to 95 orders an hour in a job that sounds like a workplace massacre in the making: Ms. Vargas seems unfazed by her job, even though it involves being subjected to constant electronic scrutiny. Software tracks her productivity and speed, and every so often a red box pops up on her screen to test...

Find a job and a future in Britain, French told By Colin Randall in Paris (Filed: 06/04/2006) As protesters throughout France continue their revolt against job law reform, the French author of a new guide to working in Britain says his country is in dire need of "our own Maggie Thatcher". Vladimir Cordier, 30, an economics graduate, abandoned his native Normandy eight years ago for London after refusing to settle for what he saw as a hopeless future in France. After finding work in a call centre, he changed jobs several times and now earns between £40,000 and £50,000 a...

My husband jokes that I should have been an electrician. In this age of outsourcing and job insecurity, the trades seem to us to be the best professions of the future. To be sure, most aren't glamorous and are often physically demanding. But a number seem to have financial security and stability, and their job portability doesn't hurt, either. Many of us white-collar employees don't get to choose where we will live; we must go wherever our employer requires us. Many folks in the trades can command a good income, choose their own hours, and put down roots in a...

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2006 – President Bush sent his secretary of state to Iraq to tell elected leaders there it's time "to stand up and do their job," the president said at the White House today. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waves to airmen at Sather Air Base, Iraq, April 3 after she and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw attended meetings with Iraq government officials in Baghdad. She is accompanied by U.S. Air Force Col. Dennis Ployer, 447th Expeditionary Group commander, and Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Photo by Master Sgt. Will Ackerman, USAF  (Click photo for...

Paris job law rally turns violent Paris police tried to separate peaceful protesters and rioters Violence has erupted in Paris as thousands of French students took to the streets to protest against a controversial labour law. Dozens of youths smashed windows, looted shops, set fire to cars and hurled stones at police. But the majority of protesters were peaceful, many of them linking arms as police tackled the violent fringe. Union leaders have agreed to meet Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday. They want the law withdrawn. The union leaders have refused to negotiate unless the law, introducing the...

Chirac may back down over job law backlash By Colin Randall, in Paris (Filed: 20/03/2006) President Jacques Chirac was under pressure from the threat of a general strike over France's new employment law. Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets The unrest could force his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, to perform a humiliating climb-down. Mr de Villepin has tried to ride out the storm whipped up by the legislation and ignore the huge demonstrations and fierce rioting it has provoked. But speculation was growing last night that the president was pushing him towards major concessions to end...

Union leaders in France say they expect more than half a million people to take part in nationwide protests against a new youth employment plan. Demonstrations are expected in 160 towns and cities, and air and rail services are threatened with delays. At least 200,000 people turned out for a day of protests a month ago. The government wants to let firms offer flexible job contracts to people under 26 which allow them to be sacked at short notice for the first two years. Critics warn taht the new legislation, which currently only applies to small firms, could be misused...

USS ESSEX, At Sea (NNS) -- Adm. William J. Fallon, commander, U.S. Pacific Command, visited USS Essex (LHD 2) March 2, to thank the crew and embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for their hard work during the Leyte humanitarian assistance, disaster relief efforts while the ship was underway off the Philippine coast. Essex, commanded by Capt. Martin J. Keaney, along with USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) and elements of the 31st MEU, were diverted from the previously planned Exercise Balikatan 06 to help in the relief and recovery efforts after a devastating landslide covered a village in the southern...

German unemployment has unexpectedly risen above the five million mark again ... equivalent to 12.1% of the working age population. the data was skewed by the unusually cold winter ... data also released on Tuesday showed a 1.4% fall in retail sales in December. The figures reinforced recent concerns that Germany's fledgling economic recovery could be held back by weak domestic demand. The headline rise in unemployment came as a surprise with most commentators expecting a modest rise. up to 30,000 people registered as unemployed this month ahead of the introduction of new benefit rules.

Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits. The new Wal-Mart at 2500 W. 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city boundary. Of 25,000 job applicants, all but 500 listed Chicago addresses... "we saw a little bit of everything -- people who hadn't worked for a long time, people who saw an opportunity to do something with themselves. That's the information I got from applicants."

The new Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location opening Friday in suburban Evergreen Park received a record 25,000 applications for 325 positions, the highest for any one location in the retailer’s history... The only other site that’s come close to the number of applications is a store in Oakland, California that received 11,000 applications for about the same number of positions last year. Wal-Mart's Chicago-area manager Chad Donath said generally stores receive between 3,000 and 4,000 applications for about 300 to 450 positions. He says Wal-Mart has been participating in job fairs and advertising the positions as it does in other communities...

What age did you join the Military and why? What motovate you? Any regrets? What would advise a young person to do these days?

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Dec. 9, 2005) -- A Company D graduate served his country once before as a sailor, and he returns to serve again as a Marine despite criticism from his friends and family. Pfc. Leonidez Cruz, Platoon 1131, 30, grew up in El Paso, Texas and joined the Navy in 1994 - a week after he graduated from high school. Trying to get away from home, Cruz wanted to move his life in a different direction. "I just wanted to get away from home and see the world, so I went into the aviation-electrical...

Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post thinks we have a "bauble economy" -- its all just a "giant Ponzi scheme." The facts just keep contradicting him. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that "employment grew by 215,000 in November." On Wednesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised our national GDP for the 3rd quarter upwards to 4.3% from an initial estimate of 3.8% On the astonishing job creation, from CNNMoney.com: "This is another affirmation that we've gotten over the shock of the hurricanes and the economy is back on track to where it was before," said Mark Vitner, senior...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2005 – The United States, Great Britain and the United Nations remain steadfast in seeing democracy established in Iraq despite continued insurgent violence, Britain's senior defense official said here today. "The litmus test of leadership is not when things are easy or fashionable, but when times are difficult and we have to come through them towards the objective in the end," British Secretary of State for Defense John Reid told reporters at a Pentagon news briefing. Resolution 1546, adopted by the U.N. Security Council on June 8, 2004, demonstrates that the mission to establish a democratic Iraqi...

U.S. Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected in October (NYT) Payrolls Expand in Oct.; Jobless Rate Dips (AP)

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2005 – Employers anxious to tap into the skills and discipline military service instills in its members converged with thousands of job-seeking veterans here at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Nov. 3 during the first Salute Our Heroes Veterans Job Fair and Career Expo. The fair brought together an estimated 7,000 veterans, many recently returned from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 87 private-sector, government and union employers hoping to entice current and former servicemembers into their workforces. Guy "Doc" Holliday, vice president for advertising for The New York Times, which hosted the event, said...