Factory orders are up........ not good news

Seems to be one of the most popular retail stores.

PS. I know a good counselor that can help cure you of your sense of humor, she also handles depression and drug abuse for the newly unemployed.

My sense of humor is fine, thank you very much.

do the job I was hired to do, I was given the impression he was going to be my helper, at least thats what my boss told me. 3 weeks later I get a pink slip, lol. Reminders are a bitch.

He is a printer and was told today he has maybe 2 months of employment left. They are closing his department. It sure won't be a Merry Christmas around here. Not only are there no jobs, but once you're in your 50's nobody wants to hire you. I really don't know what we are going to do.

My brother put more than 20 years in at a print shop, then they laid him off to hire an unskilled (and much cheaper) person to run his press--basically, the business was down so much that they ran the difficult jobs on their best press and it was almost goof-proof, the rest of the presses mostly did low-quality runs, so it didn't matter if the operator messed up much. Eventually, the shop "mothballed" a couple of the presses--high speed laser and inkjet printers have gutted the offset business.

Finding work as a press operator was real hard, but he finally got on at the local school district running their old machines. He's pretty sure that in 10 years almost all commercial printing will be essentially push button, and within a few years after that even the government and non-profit sectors will give up (except for specialty presses like currency).