The company I'm working at seems to have layoffs almost every quarter. Of course it is a large company, so not every division is hit every three months. Still with the current economy layoffs seem to have become a way of life for business.
It looks like layoffs may be expanding into families. Michael Rosenberg writes that he and his wife decided they needed to layoff one of their children:
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Recently, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to lay off one of our children. Of course we did not want to do this to a "member of the family," but the fact is that when we decided to have two kids, we were living in a different economy.
Before making this decision, we looked at different business models to keep both kids. What if we reduced them both to part-time? It was a great idea, in theory. We had a plan to keep our daughter on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, our son on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and -- I thought this was really generous -- both of them on Sundays.
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(The article goes on with more tough-in-cheek details.)
Now if we could just get the government to start downsizing!
(Hat tip: Joanne Jacobs)
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