Friday, December 12

Jobless

Just had an intense week for me and students here at ISU. Dead week is memang no joke. Slept a lot lesser this week, as compared to the usual me.. I can sleep 10 minutes after dinner until morning.. haha..

Some numbers to blog this time: job cuts.

Sorted by days in this week only, here are some of the latest announcements from several huge companies.

Monday
Dow Chemical: 5000 jobs cut, 20 plants to be closed
Anheuser-Busch InBev: 1400 positions cut
3M: 1800 cuts


Tuesday
Sony + Danaher Corp. + Wyndham Worldwide + Principal Financial Group + National Football League = 14,400 jobs cut

Wednesday
Office Depot: 2200 jobs cut
Rio Tinto: 14,000 jobs cut worldwide
SKF: 2,500 jobs cut worldwide

Thursday
Bacnk of America: 35,000 wow

Friday
CEM: 500 jobs cut (20% of the staff liao)
FCS: 1,100 jobs cut worldwide (12% of the staff liao)

That's a total of 81,500 jobs cut, this week alone.

2 million jobs this year, so far, has been slashed.

I can imagine employers at their cubicle now, working extra hard in hoping to keep their jobs, at the same time searching for an alternative.

I heard that Honda team is retreating from the F1 championship next year. That means driver Jenson Button and Rudens Barrichello lost their jobs too. If every team faces the same situation too, gam F1 mai dong goh sui loorrrr... =(

Indeed, recession has affected and will affect everybody. On my side, I couldn't sell my sister's car. Entertainment is lesser (F1 for example). Less shopping deals. Might need to pay more tax sooon. Jobless.

Recession in the US has gone very deep. Still going deeper. When will it peak?

Is the government currently doing the right move? I don't think so. I hope Chrysler know what are they doing now.

Who is benefiting at this moment?

Where do I stand as a graduating engineer at this situation?

Hehe.. I guess there's nothing I can do for now.. at least for the next 4 weeks, coz I'll be flying back home liaoz! yay

All the best to my friends taking finals next week!

It's work hard time.

Tuesday, December 9

Focus!

This week is the (so call) dead week.

And I can't focus on my studies.

Had four classes today, couldn't concentrate on all four of them. No complete notes today~

I'M TOO VERY EXCITED TO GO BACK HOME!

In less than 10 days, I can meet my family and Sandy girl and my lovely friends oh I'm so looking forward~

I bought Chrismas pressies and souveniers d. Started packing luggage liao.

I really really really need to stay focus on my finals right now.

So difficcult dam!

Urgh~