Layoffs...
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- modern0
We're doing fine just hired some people, could do with hiring more instead of using fucking whining flash freelancers
- sounds like a fun agencymimeartist_com
- haha aye.mistermik
- mimeartist_com0
I didn't say it was invented... but when the news is full of it I don't think it helps.
- mimeartist_com0
- i think we're well past the "this whole thing was invented by the media" point.Khurram
- scarabin_net0
thank god people still go to the movies
i haven't seen any film advertising designers go down yet
- epikore0
All these layoffs sounds scary.
- gadg3tg1rl0
Growing here (Edmonton, AB), no signs of downsizing. Just left a bustling agency (20 people) for another (10 people) with tons of work & new clients.
- e-pill0
this weekend to what i had thought was a big bonus and raise in my account ended up being severance pay and my entire design team including me was let go.. this is from a company that boasts its 1.2 billlion dollars in sales... they arent even hurting. i was told that my Taipei "Partners" will be able to do my job and those of my team and they wont have to pay out the NYC EXTREME Salaries, since they have a design team of 65 talented designers who can manage my work load.
thus im out, and so is 24 other designers from our New York Office.
overall im extremely happy... for some weird reason and i look forward to the hustle and to making new and stronger contacts.
good luck everyone!!
-e
- woah....Khurram
- after sending you to taipei... coldhallelujah
- Rand i travel to Asia for any company at least 4-6 times a year, its part of my and career.e-pill
- ‹‹ part of my jobe-pill
- Love your attitude e!
The world is your oyster.Mimio - Thanks Mimio!!
:)e-pill - holy shit! on to the next adventure, eh? :)paraselene
- Good luck, E! Damn, talk about sudden and crazy.harlequino
- ukit0
Don't let the fear take over people! It will only make things worse!
- I am posting this from an underground bunkerhallelujah
- fear <-------|--> lovecannonball
- Khurram0
what happened to the whole "Recession is GREAT for the design industry!"
?
- I think only spooky held that view.chossy
- I laughed when I read thathallelujah
- Spooky, 23kon, parasalene, to many but a few....Khurram
- the tsunami lifts us allhallelujah
- oh right I only saw one comment from spooky.chossy
- no no no. i said that if you're talented you are buoyant and need not fear!!!paraselene
- lot of talentless people running round this place ;) Just playing boo! Hope your well! xxxxxKhurram
- the whole "marketing booms in recession time" was pushed by marketing people to save their hides...Khurram
- hallelujah0
I wonder what impact all these newly unemployed designers will have on the freelance market
- d_rek0
Around the Greater Metro-Detroit area
(agencies)
-BBDO cut around 150 creatives
-Campbell-Ewald is allegedly making cuts as well
-Team Detroit (J. Walter Thomspon, Ogilvy+Mather, Wunderman) are all making cuts too
-word on the street is Organic will be making some heavy cutssmaller studios/boutiques:
-most are breaking even from what I hear
-not a lot of hiring going on right now - a very competetive marketgenerally speaking:
-places that aren't reliant upon automotive are doing fine - even those that are are branching out to broader markets
- Khurram0
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE DURING A SEVERE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
Are You Prepared?A grim triple-homicide in Silicon Valley late last week tells the story. A recently laid-off product test
engineer allegedly walked into the small firm that had just terminated him and opened fire on the chief
executive officer, VP of operations and head of human resources. Sadly, these kinds of incidents inevitably accompany business downturns and subsequent layoffs such as the nation has been experiencing.
The stakes are high and workplace liabilities very real.More than ever, companies are looking for flexible and effective strategies to minimize the emotional and physical risks associated with all the stunning economic contractions. While contending with an increase in disgruntled employees and concerned shareholders and attempting to instill corporate confidence, businesses are also juggling the reality of increased security threats to managers and executives.
Does your company have a plan?WHAT CONSTITUTES A BALANCED, EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE STABILITY PROGRAM?
HAVE YOU ESTABLISHED A RELATIONSHIP WITH AN EXPERIENCED WORKPLACE VIOLENCE CONSULTING AND SECURITY PROVIDER?
IF AN INCIDENT STRIKES TOMORROW, ARE YOU PREPARED?
Even the most thorough risk management and security planning will be challenged by catastrophic circumstances. There are predicable and unpredictable events that must be taken into account in the execution of a comprehensive system – including contingencies for rapid communication and response when the unexpected occurs.
It’s critical for corporations to develop methods for identifying factors that may lead to violence, implement controls to reduce the risks and have established relationships in order to respond appropriately should an incident occur. The benefits are clear:
Risk reduction
Improved employee morale
Increased feelings of security
Enhanced supervisory skills
Early identification of issues
Business cost reduction
Improved capability to resolve conflicts in positive manner
Reduced legal liability
Preservation of reputation and investor relations
OSHA compliance- I just got this email.Khurram
- what goes around comes around, sometimes in the shape of a disgruntled employeecannonball
- jk thats awful thoughcannonball
- MSL0
I now have to do the jobs that we would usually farm out to freelancers, I also have been given all the print work and lovely job of sys-admin for looking after our servers, emails and domains.
Lovely.
Just call me Donkey.
- Beach8oy0
I've spent this week telling contractors they have to take a rate cut. Whilst all the while knowing my job is in jeopardy.
Taking lots of abuse - and not being able to join in with their rants. Horrid.
- elahon0
15 people from the newspaper I work at. Luckily I'm in the web department.
*knocks on wood
- flavorful0
4.5% of the workforce went bye-bye yesterday.
Executives are taking pay cuts.
This fucking blows because I'm still in the middle of a raise situation and I just know this is not going to happen because they've been dragging their g-ddamn feet for over 2 months already and now are doing stuff like this.
Ugh.
- i got a raise ^, and i fuck more girls than you. *pops collar*Khurram
- hahhahflavorful
- hahaha...superb.zenmasterfoo
- Khurram0
It's not all bad news, i'm getting a 5% pay increase in January 2009 on top of my 6-month pay hike this month thanks to my union's concern over inflation. And today it was announced inflation was falling due to low oil prices!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone!!1o...
- things are looking up, everybody, Khurram got a raise!hallelujah
- I, for one, can rest easyhallelujah
- I also bought my first tuxedo on the weekend. I look BADASSKhurram
- we can all take heart in thishallelujah
- that you're doing well is all that matters to mehallelujah
- Oh, also, my mobile phone company is giving me a free upgrade as well, you would like to knowKhurram
- thank god!!!!hallelujah
- Also, rents in London are plummeting and i'm looking for a new flat to move into next month!!!!!!one11oneKhurram
- lackofcolor0
my last day is the day before thanksgiving. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
- bring them a dead birdpenelopes
- not a bad idealackofcolor
- isayhello0
its bad in NYC, although I still have my job. Maybe just a matter of time? Supposed to be paid last friday and the boss man says we're not getting paid for at least a week due to client not paying on time. Sound of bigger things to come, methinks. Good time to be in grad school, maybe?
- me agrees about grad school, but.. ohhhh those loans!/penelopes