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glatt · 01-29-2009, 08:04 AM

My wife is the board president of a preschool. It had to shut down about a year ago for building problems and staff problems. It reopened 6 months later, just before the crash, and they have only about a 10th of their previous enrollment. The kinds of people who used to use the school now have relatives watching their kids or other arrangements. Each month, the school just barely makes it through. But it's holding on.

I still have a job, so I can't complain. But at my employer, we quietly instituted a hiring freeze last month. Also, a big part of my job is to bring in temporary employees and contract workers and then manage all the administrative crap associated with them. Since November, I haven't brought in a single new temp. We still have several temps from before then, but are slowly getting rid of them. In the summer, I was managing over 100 temps and contractors. Now we're down to about 20.

But I still have my job, and with 18 years under my belt here, I feel fairly safe.

01-29-2009, 08:04 AM	#40
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	My wife is the board president of a preschool. It had to shut down about a year ago for building problems and staff problems. It reopened 6 months later, just before the crash, and they have only about a 10th of their previous enrollment. The kinds of people who used to use the school now have relatives watching their kids or other arrangements. Each month, the school just barely makes it through. But it's holding on. I still have a job, so I can't complain. But at my employer, we quietly instituted a hiring freeze last month. Also, a big part of my job is to bring in temporary employees and contract workers and then manage all the administrative crap associated with them. Since November, I haven't brought in a single new temp. We still have several temps from before then, but are slowly getting rid of them. In the summer, I was managing over 100 temps and contractors. Now we're down to about 20. But I still have my job, and with 18 years under my belt here, I feel fairly safe.