digg_url = 'http://mashable.com/2009/02/19/laid-off-sites/'; digg_title = '30+ Websites to Visit When You\'re Laid Off'; digg_bodytext = 'For the next several months (or maybe years), we are going to have to endure a new and stark reality - a tanking economy and swelling unemployment. The U.S. econo...

Paco continues his guest post arc (see part 1), allowing the Cranky Product Manager to rest yet another day Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager - Part Two In the previous installment, I blathered about how bad the job market is right now. Think Les Miserables except less...

You guys know Paco, right? He always makes intelligent comments on posts, participates in caption contests, etc… He is a one COOL dude. Anyway, he’s giving the Cranky Product Manager a rest this week with part one of a four part series on being an unemployed product manager. The Cranky P...

Distorted Reality I worked my heart out for a company. I traveled extensively — living on one coast, working on the other — it’s survival was my goal. The people I worked with were the most invested minds and hearts. My job was my life. That company was meaningful — for all o...

Is 2009 the year of the layoff? According to the recent employment figures, in December 2008 alone more than 500,000 U.S. workers lost their jobs. That number is almost 2 million for the last four months of the year. If the trend continues, you may find yourself on one or another end of a layoff. He...

There’s not much worse of a feeling in your gut than when you’re escorted out of a job. I was unceremoniously given the boot about 6 years ago when I worked for a regional newspaper. It was a pivotal point in my life and career. I had to decide whether I was going to battle back to highe...

Electronic unemployment filing systems have been crashing in three states or more in recent days as thousands of recently jobless Americans seek benefits, according to an AP report. This comes on the heels of a Reuters story indicating that private-sector employers unloaded 693,000 jobs in December....

Around the region, programs such as Burlington's soon will come to the rescue of even more people. Montgomery County Community College announced this week that county residents laid off since Sept. 1 will be able to take up to 12......

I wasn't too sorry to be laid off my job. The powers-that-be said they'd pay for a month's severance, and three month's insurance. That was okay fine by me. Come to find out, when I went to fill a prescription, that my insurance is kaput. I'm not sure, but the promise of wages + a month's severance ...

New York Times columnists lately have been channeling the George W. Bush of 2001. Michael Kinsley urges us (with tongue only a bit in cheek) to “Show your consumer confidence. One last shopping spree. Buy that coffee maker whether you want one or not.” Thomas Friedman exhorts with greate...