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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'failure'
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 [...]
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 [...]
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