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What Could Possibly Close Next?

July 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Losing a job, New members, War stories

YIKES. This was the prescient license plate of a former investment broker who can’t afford the car anymore. It’s my G-rated exclamation when I read about the growing stacks of worthless stock certificates, old employee IDs and the latest additions to the club.
American pastimes closed indefinitely
Closings have gone way beyond what you read in the [...]

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Was Lehman too small to save?

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Company profiles, Humor, War stories

“Life’s not fair, is it.” James Earl Jones in The Lion [...]

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Hell or Heller Ehrman?

May 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Losing a job, Series, War stories

“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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What’s With the Law Firms?

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Losing a job, Series

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”                                       — Warren Buffett

From heyday to…

Would you like to take home $1.3 million? That’s the average profits-per-partner in the top 100 law firms as of 2008.  [...]

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Too Many Members

April 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Coping, Losing a job, New members

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”   C.S. Lewis

I was shocked and saddened by the number of companies I added to the Memorial Garden (below) during routine blog maintenance today. What has happened to all these former employees? What about their families? Their sanity? Mortgage payments? Health insurance? The extent of [...]

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