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Misery Loves Company! (Nov. 11, 2008)

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The Cool People You Meet Working at the Container Store

Getting a Temp Job at a Store this Holiday Season, Is Harder than Getting into Stanford

OK, they said Harvard, but I’m in California, so what do I care? Anyway, that said … $8.50 an hour or a degree in engineering? “Nah,” said Sanjay McGupta, “I’m not into all that high-tech stuff, too much turnover. I want a four-week, $8.50 an hour job at the Container Store.”

DHL To Lay off 9,500, Promise Customers Will Still Get the Same Crappy Service

DHL lays off 9,500 and pulls out of Riverside, Calif. But really, if you’ve been to Riverside, Calif., it’s hard to believe it took them this long. In fact, the experience was so scarring, DHL is pulling out of commercial U.S. domestic shipping altogether. “Riverside, so mindnumbing, so full of meth and white trash, it killed all our hard-won German, almost Nazi-ish, militaristic morale,” said Dieter McGoebbels.

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Misery Loves Company (Aug. 25)

Hey, sorry, was on vacation until Saturday. Vacation when unemployed? Well, yes, especially when it was planned months before you were laid off!

Vudu Lays Off 15 Percent of Staff, May Retire Lame Name for Another Start-Up

TiVo tells them to “Suck it!”

DHL Closes Boise Call Center, 105 Workers Can No Longer Lose Track of Packages

“Oh, we will still manage to lose records,” said Garn McGoogle, “but just at a much slower pace.”

cupcakes_2Media Amazed that Laid-Off Wall Streeters Bake Cupcakes, Cut Hair, Tend Bar

A 27-year-old vice president at Bear Stearns opens cupcake biz, another cuts hair in strip mall. I think that’s called unemployment for most people.

Abbott Labs to Lay Off 1,000, Leaves Where a Mystery

Spokeswoman said cuts would happen globally (Alameda) but in some super-secret, top secret way.

Whitehall Jewelers Future Looks Cloudy, Mrs. Field’s Cookies are Burnt

Mall jeweler, Whitehall Jewelers, will liquidate its 373 stores, leaving customers to buy precious jewels at Walmart or Target. Mrs. Field’s files for bankruptcy, leaving customers to bake cookies at home. The humanity!