You walk into work knowing you have 8 days of work left before your contract is up and 4 permant people out of 11 in your department get layed off, leaving 1 on the phones doing the work of three, and three techs doing the work that 6 used to do. One guy told me I had the wrong attitude and should just walk. But he fails to understand I don't get severence , only unemployment and I look good by keep doing my job in the shadow of head lopping, I may get asked to come back in the future and maybe end up permant.
Yup the economy still sucks, Lets hope change comes soon!
You know the economy is bad when the government passes a $700 billion dollar bailout and Wall Street says it's not even close to enough. Cripes. There's $700 billion dollars wasted...
You know it bad when a second job stocking for Wal-mart overnight starts to look like a reeeeeeeeeeally good idea.
You know the economy is bad when congress is in session. Of course you know the country is in bad shape and at risk when ever congress is in session.
John Adams: A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?
John Adams: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!
You know the economy is bad when, you go to the bank and take most all of your money out and take it home and put it in old cigar box's and hide them in the walls of your closet.
Quote from: brier patch charlie on October 07, 2008, 06:11:59 PM
You know the economy is bad when, you go to the bank and take most all of your money out and take it home and put it in old cigar box's and hide them in the walls of your closet.
Or in your mattress!
Dont forget to put a couple of twenties in your shoes. It really does come in handy!!!
...you attempt to deposit Monopoly money into your bank account and they actually accept it.
Quote from: Demetrius on October 08, 2008, 09:27:31 AM
...you attempt to deposit Monopoly money into your bank account and they actually accept it.
Tha's a good one
When the Canadian dollar and Mexican Peso is worth more than an American dollar.
When both of those countries flock back across the border as they make more back in their native country
When a Confederate Dollar has value again
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 09:39:02 AM
When both of those countries flock back across the border as they make more back in their native country
Oh if ONLY that were true.. (the part about them going back across the borders, not the money thing). ;)
Back on topic...
When you start contemplating investing more in small amounts of lead set in brass just because it'll be more valuable than gold soon.
When you take PTO from your full-time job to put in hours at a second job. :P
Your financial advisor has started referring to your retirement fund as a "401-Not-OK".
Shops that make "Going Out of Business" signs report a 400% increase in sales.
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 08, 2008, 09:54:41 AM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 09:39:02 AM
When both of those countries flock back across the border as they make more back in their native country
Oh if ONLY that were true.. (the part about them going back across the borders, not the money thing). ;)
In a way it is true, Imigration is down which is a good thing. They feel they are better off where they where and not in America.
When you go to a store and they no longer take American Dollars
When the price of a barrel of oil is sold in Euro's and not American
When your primary job at McDonald's layes you off and closes up
When an item on the Dollar menu is now $$2.00
When your dream car is now a 20 year old Yugo
When the Toothfairy starts living IOU's under pillow.
When restaraunts dole out condiments like it's gold.
I was at a national chain having breakfast this morning and overheard the server at an adjoining booth tell the guests she was not supposed to leave the catsup bottle on the table. They had to take what they needed and hand it over.(To be fair, she dropped it off and then came back around for it a minute later). I had to laugh. That's just sad. I mean... it's catsup for heavens sake.
I felt so honored when they let me keep the catsup AND the jelly caddy.
The only stocks worth investing in are made of oak or pine and have a big padlock.
When you pet ( cat/ dog) fix's dinner for you!
when your pet (dog/cat) IS dinner for you.
((yeah, I know I'm going to hell for this one))
:o
When the wood privacy fence in the back yard becomes fire wood to heat your home in winter.
And cook FIFI for dinner.
When your department announces that you're moving out of downtown, away from most bus lines and the rest of the company and the overriding question from the employees is "So we're not laying anyone off, right?" not "Wait, it's going to take me how long to get to work now?!?"
You see Bill Gate playing the lottery.
(OK, I stole it from Jay Leno (or his writers :P) but it's still funny.)
...when the store has a sale on ramen and you still can't afford to buy it.
When your supper now consistes of Rock-n-Roll Spaghetti and Rock-n-Roll Tomato soup
(Ramen with hot ketcup and hot water with ketcup)
This was a REAL meal of the hair metal bands inthe late 89's early 90's Guys could not afford food and ramen and ketcup was cheap, so they ate it. This is a true fact
.. you don't know which fall strikes you as the most disastrous: Humpty Dumpty, the value of your 401K, or the ratings for the new "Knight Rider" TV show.
...you can't afford to buy the mobile home you grew up in.
When you find a cardboard box and feel it would make the perfect home for yourself under a nice bridge
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 10, 2008, 11:25:04 AM
When you find a cardboard box and feel it would make the perfect home for yourself under a nice bridge
...but decide instead to
jump off
of said bridge.
Quote from: Demetrius on October 10, 2008, 11:39:16 AM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 10, 2008, 11:25:04 AM
When you find a cardboard box and feel it would make the perfect home for yourself under a nice bridge
...but decide instead to jump off
of said bridge.
When the fire dept, police dept, and rescue teams who are there to rescue you decide to join you
When you use your socks for mittens to keep your hands warm and it's the middle of summer
When a McDonald's double cheese burger is a high class gormet meal
When dumpster diving for store and restuarant scraps is sounding like a great idea just so you can eat.
"When dumpster diving for store and restuarant scraps is sounding like a great idea just so you can eat."
Been there, done that
Dayna
Instead of a puppy, you buy your kids a milk producing goat. :P
When the sheep start saving there wool to make there own sweaters.
The local Ford Dealership calls your company personally to tell you they have some great deals on new and used vehicles in case we would like to come on down and check them out...
(I've worked here for over 15 years and this is the first time they have ever done that) ???
...gas drops to $3 per gallon and you think that's good! ???
...you win a million bucks on Deal or No Deal and the banker has to ask for a bailout-
When people stop there car and jump out to pick up a penny.
When you over qualified for a job and it's at doing Janitorial (Scrubing toilets)
When gas prices keep falling because the speculators on oil are more worried about their stock portfolio being in the tanks from all the other stocks dropping.
When 3 months ago you had spent $10,000 to buy stock and it's now worth only $100
When the 90- year old handicap great grandmother who lives next to you gets busted for selling illegal drugs trying to make ends meet.
When Bonnie and Clyde, The James Younger Gang, The Dalton Gang, become your hero's and role models and you want to be just like them.
When road kill because supper beccause it's the only meat you can put on the table
When you dump 1/2 the gallon of milk you just bought into another gallon carton then fill the rest of the cantainers up with water to streach them both
When standing on the street cornewr pan-handling starts sounding more promising... but then people stop to ask you for a spare penny when they see you doing it.
...we have to cut pennies in fourths to make change...
When people are willing to go to Prison just so they can have a roof over there head, 3 hot meals a day and free cable.
Quote from: brier patch charlie on October 13, 2008, 04:56:08 PM
When people are willing to go to Prison just so they can have a roof over there head, 3 hot meals a day and free cable.
They do that even when the economy is good. It just picks up when the economy is bad. Some criminals break laws once out just so they can go back in and have the "Easy" Life. No bills, fod is cooked for you, it's easier in there... to a point and not at the end of a knife one.
When your 401K is now a 1K. Sigh.
My fixed income is now a broke income! Sigh.
When you buy a toaster, and they give you a bank as a gift. ;D
When it is more expensive to watch an episode of House on the TV than it is to actually buy a real house.
Thanks to Steven Colbert for that one.
you notice that the credit card company's have stop sending you all of those pre-approved offers or any offers at all ! :o
(this makes me and the trees very very happy ;D )
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 12:17:23 PM
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 08, 2008, 09:54:41 AM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 09:39:02 AM
When both of those countries flock back across the border as they make more back in their native country
Oh if ONLY that were true.. (the part about them going back across the borders, not the money thing). ;)
In a way it is true, Imigration is down which is a good thing. They feel they are better off where they where and not in America.
My native buddy wants to know when the economy will be bad enough to have
all the immigrants leave america.
Quote from: Demetrius on October 22, 2008, 09:14:03 AM
Quote from: Sir Gawain on October 22, 2008, 05:09:44 AM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 12:17:23 PM
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 08, 2008, 09:54:41 AM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 08, 2008, 09:39:02 AM
When both of those countries flock back across the border as they make more back in their native country
Oh if ONLY that were true.. (the part about them going back across the borders, not the money thing). ;)
In a way it is true, Imigration is down which is a good thing. They feel they are better off where they where and not in America.
My native buddy wants to know when the economy will be bad enough to have all the immigrants leave america.
The indigenous population have been asking that for a long time...
Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 12:59:30 PM
Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
dudanilvtsv
((Bonus points if you can translate this and tell me what language it is))
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 22, 2008, 01:32:39 PM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 12:59:30 PM
Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
dudanilvtsv
((Bonus points if you can translate this and tell me what language it is))
It means Agreed in Cherokee, I'm Saux and Fox though and Toki is part Osage
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 12:59:30 PM
My native buddy wants to know when the economy will be bad enough to have all the immigrants leave america.
The indigenous population have been asking that for a long time...
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Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
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Given present theory of human migration patterns that means there wouldn't be anyone left in America north or south since everyone here now migrated from somewhere else at some point in history.
One new theory
Instead, Stanford said today, Clovis points match up much closer with Solutrean style tools, which researchers date to about 19,000 years ago. This suggests that the American people making Clovis points made Solutrean points before that.
There's just one problem with this hypothesis—Solutrean toolmakers lived in France and Spain. Scientists know of no land-ice bridge that spanned that entire gap.
The lost hunting party
Stanford has an idea for how humans crossed the Atlantic, though—boats. Art from that era indicates that Solutrean populations in northern Spain were hunting marine animals, such as seals, walrus, and tuna.
They may have even made their way into the floating ice chunks that unite immense harp seal populations in Canada and Europe each year.
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 02:12:27 PM
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 22, 2008, 01:32:39 PM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 12:59:30 PM
Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
dudanilvtsv
((Bonus points if you can translate this and tell me what language it is))
It means Agreed in Cherokee, I'm Saux and Fox though and Toki is part Osage
You know, somehow I figured you would figure it out. ;) ((I am half Cherokee myself))
Quote from: SirRichardBear on October 22, 2008, 02:21:53 PM
Quote from: Lady de Laney on October 22, 2008, 12:59:30 PM
My native buddy wants to know when the economy will be bad enough to have all the immigrants leave america.
The indigenous population have been asking that for a long time...
Yes please leave and go back to Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia or any other place not listed we us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves
[/quote]
Given present theory of human migration patterns that means there wouldn't be anyone left in America north or south since everyone here now migrated from somewhere else at some point in history.
One new theory
Instead, Stanford said today, Clovis points match up much closer with Solutrean style tools, which researchers date to about 19,000 years ago. This suggests that the American people making Clovis points made Solutrean points before that.
There's just one problem with this hypothesis—Solutrean toolmakers lived in France and Spain. Scientists know of no land-ice bridge that spanned that entire gap.
The lost hunting party
Stanford has an idea for how humans crossed the Atlantic, though—boats. Art from that era indicates that Solutrean populations in northern Spain were hunting marine animals, such as seals, walrus, and tuna.
They may have even made their way into the floating ice chunks that unite immense harp seal populations in Canada and Europe each year.
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Hence the reason I said "us natives or those who have native blood can have this place all to ourselves"
There are plenty of us with native blood, but those without native blood must leave. It would leave a great big huge quite place to live :o). Native meaning anyone who came over in the time just before the vikings and all after it. As Native refers to those people here before the migration of Europeans.
Also there have been found remains and tools that predate Clovis and civilized man by many thousands of years in Central America. Where did he come from? Maybe the same place the Europeans came from before man migrated north from Africa
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html)
Why pick the Viking as a limit? As I read the History of the seven great nations in the north east they cross over the mountains into the mid-Alantic area just a few years before the Dutch and English start to arrive forcing out or killing the people there before them.
Best theory is that there wasn't a single magration of people into the Americas but dozens maybe hundred cover tens of thousands of years. Any Time limit is going to be subjective depending on who you want to include and exclude.
My way of thinking anyone who was born here is of "native blood" since their blood has never been anywhere else. I find it interesting that no matter how many thousands of years you go back you or in which country you talk about someone is always saying they are native and the others are foreigners. Look at how the Japanese talk about "Koreans" who have lived in the northern islands for a thousand years as foreign, or how in certain parts of Spain or German they talk about how one family is native the other is foreign even though both families have lived in the same country for centuries. I guess its just part of human nature.
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
You know the economy is bad when...
you are thinking about charging admission to your porch on Halloween...
Quote from: PurpleDragon on October 22, 2008, 02:25:44 PM
It means Agreed in Cherokee, I'm Saux and Fox though and Toki is part Osage
You know, somehow I figured you would figure it out. ;) ((I am half Cherokee myself))
Count me in, too...Cherokee blood from my paternal Grandmother ;D
And getting back on topic...
when you find yourself using JB Weld to fix the sole of your sneakers because, let's face it...a new pair of shoes or a tank of gas?
You know it's bad when you stop to pick up road kill opssum ! :o
Quote from: anne of oaktower on October 22, 2008, 06:46:11 PM
And getting back on topic...
when you find yourself using JB Weld to fix the sole of your sneakers because, let's face it...a new pair of shoes or a tank of gas?
You're not the only one who's done it! :D
Shoes are repalced by reusing the soles, and a roll of duct tape...
When you carry a space heater all over the house and plug it in right to you wherever you are instead of turning on the heat in the house.
Quote from: Charlotte Rowan on October 23, 2008, 08:43:05 AM
When you carry a space heater all over the house and plug it in right to you wherever you are instead of turning on the heat in the house.
...then you have to burn your energy bill for heat.
Quote from: Demetrius on October 23, 2008, 10:50:44 AM
Quote from: Charlotte Rowan on October 23, 2008, 08:43:05 AM
When you carry a space heater all over the house and plug it in right to you wherever you are instead of turning on the heat in the house.
...then you have to burn your energy bill for heat.
When you have no furniture anymore as you used it all for firewood to stay warm.
When even the homeless no longer can find a card board box to live in as the middle class are already saved them and used them to make a home for themselves.
When you have to reuse the coffee grounds all week long to make coffee for yourself
When you start making coffee out of any thing you can find like peanuts, oatmeal, or what ever suits you like the Confederate Army did in the Civil War.
When you see Donald Trump pan-handling on the corner holding a sign... "Will work for food and a place to sleep".
When the Gold in Ft Knox is no longer a concern to be protected.
Growing up we use to resole our shoes with old tires treads, they would last years and give good footing. Farmers have all ways been into recycling.
When all temp agencies cease to accept job applications due to the overwhelmingly high amount of layoffs (happening right now in Colorado Springs!) Thankfully I moved back to Houston last Fall where there are still plenty o' jobby jobs.
When you save the oil you just changed in your truck, to burn in the stove in your house to cut down on your heating bill.
On the farm the oil when down hill from car, to farm truck, to tracter, to combine, to barn heater. Maybe it means economy has always been bad on a small family farm.
Quote from: SirRichardBear on October 23, 2008, 09:13:32 PM
On the farm the oil when down hill from car, to farm truck, to tracter, to combine, to barn heater. Maybe it means economy has always been bad on a small family farm.
Nope...what that is is just good old-fashioned resourcefulness. My grandfather did the same thing.
When you stop to think about it, we're only a couple of generations removed from people who really knew how to get the most out of everything they had. Now we live in a plastic, drive-thru, disposable world.
Me I know how to get the most of things same 21 inch TV for 10 years, same OLDS for 15 years, same house for 26 years and same wife for 28 years.
Same here.. we don't have cable ( why pay for 299 channels of nothing to watch), we use rabbit ear antennae on the television. We don't buy name brand stuff, we buy what we can afford. One has to live within thier means. Deficit spending does not work for the government, it is not going to work for you ;)
NEW STOCK MARKET TERMS
CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO-- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BROKER -- What my financial planner has made me.
CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the
toilet.
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought
Yahoo @ $240 per share.
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240
per share.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets
equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a
nut house.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake
himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance,
the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the
market keeps crashing.
You know the economy is bad when -
= this topic is already over five pages.
= when you start taking down notes from the advice given here...
When dumpster diving turns from a sport of opportunity and luck, to a method of survival requiring hand to hand combat skills.
...you turn down a free sample because you don't think you have enough.
Quote from: SirRichardBear on October 07, 2008, 12:52:11 PM
John Adams: A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?
John Adams: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!
For those that don't know. These are all quotes from the play 1776, and not attributed to the actual John Adams.
You know it's a bad economy when the local Hooters goes out of business, and strip joints have to resort to posting signs outside offering free gas cards with every visit.
When banks start asking their clients for loans so they can stay in business.
When guys who make less than $50,000 a year are bitching about tax increases for those making $250,000 a year.
When Harlem starts looking like a great place to live.
When Bank Robbers are now robbing Bubble Gum machines because the bank has no money and they know they can get a higher rate of return from robbing the bubblegum machine.
When you play the slots and win $5.00 and think that's a jackpot
When you have to rob your childs piggy bank filled with various coins totalling $25 so you can buy food for the kid