Economic crunch starting to hit home

[••SpraynPray••]

The company I work for just layed off 30 people and cut all Salaries by 20%
I can barely pay my bills and feed my self decently on my salary. With 20% off im lookin at maruchan noodles, hot dogs & Macn Cheese for the nxt few months =D

All I can say is Im lucky to still have my job. damn =/

[sluggie24]

I know what you mean. I'm earning $5k less than I did last year and $18k less than I did 3 years ago.........

Living paycheck to paycheck for a while now. Maybe I shouldn't have bought all those firearms........

[••SpraynPray••]

lol tell me about it I bought my AR and XD40 on a whim and now im payin for it literally =D

[dc dalton]

Yeah I no what you mean but try owning your own business! My business is down 80% from just two months ago!

Gonna be a damn lean winter that's for sure.

[Kaos]

Our company (cant say who) let go like 25% of our personnel last week. Sucks really bad, lost a great friend in the office (though we're still friends out of the office).

[ALS]

I saw this coming and because of it I went though my company and cut every unnecessary expense. Also increased my budget on advertising and marketing. Me, I ended up increasing my take home and not one employee got cut or a cut in pay. So far so good sales have not dropped and with the small changes economizing the company I now have a buffer if things do slow down. It is just too hard to get quality employees and I hate losing employees. The little things add up so there really are things any company can do to find waste and inefficiency.

All in all I cut out almost $2K a month in waste and inefficiency.
Every company has it but most people in management are too lazy to find it.

[dman]

I saw this coming and because of it I went though my company and cut every unnecessary expense. Also increased my budget on advertising and marketing. Me, I ended up increasing my take home and not one employee got cut or a cut in pay. So far so good sales have not dropped and with the small changes economizing the company I now have a buffer if things do slow down. It is just too hard to get quality employees and I hate losing employees. The little things add up so there really.

All in all I cut out almost $2K a month in waste and inefficiency.
Every company has it but most people in management are too lazy to find it.

My hats off to you sir, want to buy a kidney ?????

[gunga]

The company I work for announced today that they are selling their corporate jet. You know times are tough when the executives have to fly first class instead of private jets.

[King 5.45]

I know what you mean. I'm earning $5k less than I did last year and $18k less than I did 3 years ago.........

Living paycheck to paycheck for a while now. Maybe I shouldn't have bought all those firearms........

You'll be glad to have them when the folks who weren't as prudent, one way or another, decide to come a-calling to remedy the inequity of your relative circumstances by force.

[gf45acp]

I know what ya mean, I got laid of in Sept. myself. The way it looks I will end up taking a job that pays 45% of what I was making. Sucks BIG time. I havn't been able to find anything that even pays what I get on unemployment.