“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.”
-Sumner Redstone, majority owner of CBS, Viacom, MTV Network, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks studios
I was taught that there are winners and losers. You didn’t hear any of that sissy “Everybody’s a winner, Sweetie!” nonsense in my ‘hood. [...]
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Tags:award·Coping·finding a job·new job
“Life’s not fair, is it.” James Earl Jones in The Lion [...]
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Tags:bankruptcy·failure·Lehman Brothers
“I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.” — Anonymous
Former Circuit City employees took a direct hit when the company closed. But the fallout is still spreading far beyond the walls of Circuit City’s echoing stores. If you think you aren’t affected, think again. Here [...]
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Tags:dead company·Losing a job
“Life’s a fragile thing Harry… One minute you’re chewin on a burger, the next minute you’re dead meat.” [...]
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Tags:Big Law·dead company·failure·law firms
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’” – Charles M. Schulz
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I was just in time today to see absolutely nothing happen at Circuit City’s headquarters. The parking lot didn’t look this massive [...]
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Tags:Circuit City·dead company·Losing a job·money·severance