Job hours cut back

cudaspaz said

I wonder how many young parents are picking their grandparents, great grandparents brains about things they did during the great depression to keep afloat.

My Wife's Grandmother was telling us about her victory gardens and how she saved everything like paper towels that she would rinse out and hang on the clothes line to dry.

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My boss and I was sitting in his truck today and he went a head and told me first before anyone else. He said that he has just a few quotes out and have not heard anything back from them. We "might" have a house to start after the first of the year but that is all. Nothing! My boss is in his late 50s and he has never seen it like this.

SleeperScamp said

Yeah ... Went from six days a week .... Some 12 hour days to as little as two days a week with an entire week off at Thanksgiving plus an additional week off for Christmas....... Our company just announced they will be closing one of its North American plants next year..... Just sucks anywhere from 1100 to 1500 + jobs lost ........ For those who don't know I work for Cooper Tire....

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I would figure tires would be something still in demand....everyone has to have tires on their vehicles.


I just got done talking to my friend who is a painter. They have already cut their hours also and he said that the boss is fixing to start laying off workers. He is going by the DMV tomorrow to turn in his tag of his truck because he can't afford to keep insurance on it!