Laid Off

Why I'm Celebrating The Anniversary Of Losing My Job At 59

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Unemployed Boomers, Unemployment, Losing Your Job, Long Term Unemployment, Laid Off, Long-Term Unemployed, Fifty News, Getting Laid Off, Fifty News
Ann Brenoff

Three years ago today, an email popped into my inbox asking me to please step into my manager's office. There, a hired gun was waiting to tell me that my job as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times was unceremoniously ending.

Read Post

In Ireland, Some Ex-Construction Workers Are Now Baking Cookies

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Video, Celtic Tiger, Cherry Blossom Bakery, Emigration, Irishcentral, Ireland, Construction Workers, Laid Off, Austerity Measures, Europe, Inside Ireland, Slidepollajax, Piigs, Business News

Construction workers and bakers may not seem so similar, but at one shop, those once operating heavy machinery are now making a small fortune off baki...

Read Whole Story

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Joanne Tombrakos | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Job Advice, Career Advice, Career Advice for Women, Career Change, Switching Jobs, Fired, Laid Off, Job-Dissatisfaction, Women News
Joanne Tombrakos

Leaving a job, or in the case of people like me, a career, is sort of like breaking up with your guy: On some level you know when it's time to leave but that doesn't mean you do it.

Read Post

The Nextnik Episode 2: Letting Loose On The Second Act Path

Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Nextnik, Video, Kravinsky, Post 50 Job Search, Reinvention post50, Second Acts, Midlife Job Search, The Nextnik, Laid Off, Laid Off Middle Age, Mike Kravinksy, Finding a Job After 50, Fifty News

In the second episode of Mike Kravinsky's new web series 'The Nextnik,' Larry Zimmerman -- a recently-laid-off Post 50 -- visits his friend Mark, who ...

Read Whole Story

Losing My Job Improved My Life

James Kunen | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Book News, Losing Job Advice, Getting Fired, Losing Job, Start New Career, Getting Fired Advice, Change Career, Laid Off, Books News
James Kunen

I'd been downsized. Thrown under the bus. I had thought I didn't like spending my precious days on Earth sealed into a box at Time Warner headquarters, where I toiled in corporate communications, but I had no idea how alienated I was. Now, anything was possible.

Read Post

Good Service: City Raises Nearly $17,000 For Laid-off Diner Workers

AP | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Aberdeen Diner, Weird Food, City Raises Money for Laid-Off Diner Workers, Aberdeen, Video, Laid-Off, Washington Diner, Grinch Fund, Back Wages, America's Diner, Washington, Aberdeen Raises Money for Laid-Off Diner Workers, Back Pay, Weird News News

ABERDEEN, Wash. -- A regular customer at a Washington state diner that closed, leaving a dozen employees out of work, has led a fundraiser that collec...

Read Whole Story

Unemployed Woman Forced To Live A Lie

Aol Jobs | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Sukhraj Beasia, Unemployed Women in 30's, Laid Off, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, Unemployed Women, Women-Jobs-Crisis, Women News

Sukhraj Beasla is a successful 30-year-old, recently promoted at LaSalle Bank from trust manager to assistant vice president. At least that's what Bea...

Read Whole Story

MoneyWatch: How To Avoid Getting Laid Off

CBS MoneyWatch | Ron Brown | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Career Advice, Job Security, Ron Brown, Laid Off, Unemployment, CBS MoneyWatch.Com, Advice, Business News

The first thing you need to do is assess your vulnerability to these cuts on several levels. The first one would be based on your own personal perform...

Read Whole Story

Katherine Bindley

How To Fight The Unemployment Blues This Summer

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Fired, Unemployment Depression, Laid Off, Women Recession, Unemployment, Dealing With Unemployment, Coping With Unemployment, Recession, Women News

The unemployment rate was 9.2 percent last month: that's the highest it's been this year to date, according to the Department of Labor. According to a...

Read Whole Story

Man Fired After Disclosing Wife's Cancer To Employer

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Man Laid Off for Wife's Cancer, Wife's Cancr Gets Man Laid Off, Laid Off, Cancer, Man Fired for Wife's Cancer, Unfair Lay-Off, Business News

Cancer is an awful thing for any family to deal with. It's even more of a problem when it gets you fired. When Carl Sorabella, of Massachusetts, to...

Read Whole Story

Travelers of the World Unite: Stop the Wars

Judie Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Passports, Leadership, Political Parties, Somalia, Pakistan, Laid Off, Peace, Gandhi, Politics, Muslim, Old, Travel Advice, Ireland, Portugal, Religious, Top Chefs, Libraries Closed, Tunisia, Luggage, Natonal Museum of the Marine Corps, Brazil, Mandela, Afghanistan War, Behind-the-Scenes, Business Owners, Sustainability, India, Teachers, War Machine, Egypt, Proteecting Animals, Outback, Patagonia, Norway, Iraq, Thailand, Countries, Culture, Restored Sites, Government, Off-the-Beatenpath, New Hotels, Vietnam, Values, Vietnam War, Travelers, Off-the-Beaten Trail, Greece, Italy, Customs, Young, Extreme Sports, Foreign Wars, War, Yemen, Habitats, Facebook, Environmental Protection, Actors, France, War in Afghanistan, Muslims, Wait Staff, Blog, Financiers, Museums, Sex, Non-Military Solutions, Communities, Secular, Iraq War, Afghanistan, Aboriginal, Travel News
Judie Fein

In short, we are opinion leaders, opinion makers, the vanguard of the modern wave of exploration.

Read Post

Laura Bassett

Drugmaker Lays Off 1,700 Via Conference Call Ahead Of Holidays

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mass Layoffs, Sanofi-Aventis Layoffs, Pharmaceutical Companies, Sanofi-Aventis, Laid-Off, Business News

On Nov. 30, employees at Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceuticals, the world's fourth-biggest drugmaker, received an email from the company wishing them a happy...

Read Whole Story

Arthur Delaney

Are The Long-Term Unemployed Saved Or Screwed?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment Extensions, Layoffs, Unemployed, Laid-Off, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Benefits Extension, Jobless, Long-Term Unemployed, Layoff, Politics News

Advocates for the jobless are divided on whether a deal reauthorizing emergency benefits for a full year has saved or screwed the unemployed. Fans of...

Read Whole Story

HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Greatest Person of the Day, Entrepreneurs, Laid-Off, Children Cooking Classes, Jessi Walter Taste Buds, Taste Buds, Jessi Walter, Cooking, Cooking Classes, Impact News

Doing what you love can lead to the career you dreamed of as a little kid. Just ask Jessi Walter, who left Wall Street to launch her own business orga...

Read Whole Story

NYC Kitchen-For-Rent Helps Unemployed Create Small Businesses

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laid Off, Small Business, Unemployment, Kitchen for Rent, Entrepreneurs Space, Entrepreneurship, Ny Impact, Impact News

In New York's culinary world, with its unending appetite and closet-size kitchens, it is an unimpressive building housing a seven-day-a-week, 24-hour ...

Read Whole Story

You've Just Been Laid Off. Lucky You.

Kathi Burns | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Laid Off, Unemployed, Unemployment, New Job, New Career, Healthy Living News
Kathi Burns

Do not let your dreams die: move forward and learn the new skills necessary to uncover and discover your true talents so that you can bring them forth.

Read Post

Tweeting American

Bruce Kluger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Citizenship, Social Security, Tea Party, Economy, Twitter, Household Budget, Obstructionist Republicans, Laid Off, Family Values, Mortgage, Americanism, Hurricane Katrina, Refinancing, Consumers, Medicare, Cable News, Gays, The NOLA Tree, Politics News
Bruce Kluger

A mentor once told me that the best way to determine if something is well written -- be it a book or movie or even an essay--is if it can be summed ...

Read Post

Senate Approves $60 Billion For War, While House Cuts $24 Billion For Unemployed Workers And State Aid

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Congress, Workers, Laid-Off, Unemployment Benefits, War, Afghan War, House, Cobra, Deficit, Senate, Education, Unemployment, Iraq War, Health Insurance, Teachers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate easily passed an almost $60 billion war funding bill Thursday, but anxiety over out-of-control budget deficits led House...

Read Whole Story

Why the Fight for Financial Reform Needs to Get Much More Personal

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Reform Bill, Bearing Witness 2.0, Chris Dodd, Health Care Debate, Obama Financial Reform, Financial Reform, Elizabeth Warren, Volker-Rule, Unemployment, US Unemployment, Financial Crisis, Laid Off, Consumer Protection, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Arianna Huffington

When it comes to the fight over financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake they did with health care: failing to put the effect reform would have on the lives of real Americans front and center.

Read Post

Obama Looks To Fix Safety Net As Unemployment Rate Rises

The New York Times | Jackie Calmes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Businesses, Layoffs, Tax Credits, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Jobless, Operating Losses, Unemployment Benefits, Laid Off, Job Creation, Safety Net, Stimulus, Recession, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With unemployment expected to rise well into next year even as the economy slowly recovers, the Obama administration and Democratic lead...

Read Whole Story

Hard-Luck Mom Stole From Daughter's Softball Team To Pay Bills

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeless Shelter, Robert Martin, Booster Mom, Jodie Watts, Samson Baya, Janie Watts, Rosemary Zeno, Laid Off, Operation Warmth, Hedding United Methodist Church, Bearing Witness, Rev, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Paul Napper, Zeno Shoe Shine, Ralph Howe, Homeless Shelters, Roberta Hedemark, Bearing Witness 2.0, Royal Zeno, Good Samaritan Haven, Impact News

As part of our Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up compelling local stories about the victims of the recession. A mother ...

Read Whole Story

Congratulations, You've Been Laid Off. Now Round Up the Elephant and Discover Your Power!

Toan Lam | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Enemployment, Lynn Billett, Spirit, Economy, Toan Lam, Aging Beautifully, Laid Off, Goinspirego, www.goinspirego.com, Spirituality, Aging Beautifully Now, Lynn Lam, agingbeautifullynow.com, Yoga, Healthy Living News
Toan Lam

My sister, like many of us who either hate our jobs or are just ready for something new, was afraid to muster up the courage to say, bon voyage, farewell, see ya later (gulp) job.

Read Post

Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy, Wages, Jobless, Jobs, Laid Off, Recession, Gender, Layoffs, Gender Equality, Unemployment, Inflation, Work, Salary, Business News

The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

Read Whole Story

Middle-Class Faces Homelessness After Job Loss

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fire-Marshall, Food Banks, Migrant Workers, Share Our Selves, Laid Off, Bearing Witness, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Factory, Unemployed, Unemployment, Homelessness, Potatoes, Homeless, Bearing Witness 2.0, Arson, Business News

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Robertson family was living in a storage unit. Save The Family Arizona suppli...

Read Whole Story

10 "Bulletproof Your Relationship Tips" for the Unemployed

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Santa Claus, Bulletproof Your Job, Unemployment Rate, Career, Resumes, Unemployed, Job, Office, Laid Off, Business, Family, Healthy Living News
Stephen Viscusi

Are these questions familiar? How many resumes did you send out today? Did you call so and so? How about going back on the search engines? Why is the house such a mess if you are home all day?

Read Post