The Black Plague

It seems that the office and now my home are overrun with the black plague. Not actually the midieval plague that removed roughly 40% of the population from the face of the earth, but a nasty cold/flu virus that gets around like wildfire in a high wind.

What else is going on? Well, we're in the midst of layoffs at work. Sucks to do it, although obviously it sucks worse to be on the receiving end. I have no idea how much in the way of jobs there are out there here in SW FL. I really don't think there's a lot....I'm going to do what I can for everyone, hooking them up with the few recruiters I know in the area, trying to give them a head start on unemployment benefits and giving out letters of reference. Not really sure what I can do past that. Eventually, I won't have much of an accounting dept, we'll be doing more business support activities and analysis.

Lots more job cuts this week, the recession (borderline depression) is getting really rolling. Macy's, panasonic, Dow.....you name the big company and they are pretty much all cutting people. If my honey wasn't so sick, I'm seriously considering telling her we need to change our plan and just hunker down for 1 - 3 years here.....long enough for things to turn around, or at least bottom out. Part of my problem with moving is the lack of visibility. Where are we going in this economy? When will the bad/awful/apocalyptic news start to taper off and a ray of sunshine pop up?

On the slightly more entertaining things, today is national signing day for football! It appears that my beloved Tigers are going to have a GREAT class, possibly #1 in the county. I realize that it doesn't really matter, and there isn't much difference in the top 5 overall, but it would be nice to be #1 just to piss off the Alabama fans (AkA fucking stupid Gumps)

Not much happening on the job front...this part of the post is ignoring what I posted above about hunkering down by the way.....I had the phone interview in Alex, I think it went pretty well, but have not heard anything back yet. I've been submitted for a position in Pascagoula, but have no idea if there is any interest or not.

Later