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Title: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: bijou on August 05, 2008, 02:20:41 PM: Quote
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 07:47 PM
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A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Advertisements [?]She has spent her entire adult life in the Mortgage and Title biz.

For the last month or so, she was just waiting for the ax to fall. And fall it did, just last week.

But, lo and behold, she was invited for an interview yesterday with a major Title company in San Francisco. Called me last night, all excited because she had been hired, reporting for her first day of work today.

I expressed amazement that anyone in that segment was hiring, and she said she couldn't believe it, either. Told me that she expressed same to the interviewer, who told her that it was just a matter of time before the market turned and things would be all better again.
Told her that the company had decided to hang tough, make it through the down-turn.

She was so excited.

I just got off the phone with her a few minutes ago.

She told me that she drove into the City for her first day on her new job, parked, walked a couple of blocks to the Title company.

The doors were locked.

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ocelot (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
2. Wow. That sucks.
Was it this one? http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/07...

Good luck to your friend -- that's a tough industry to work in these days.
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 07:59 PM
Response to Reply #2
8. That's the one.
I couldn't remember the name when I posted.

She sounded like a frightened little girl on the phone.

I am going to take her someplace quiet and cool, tonight.

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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 08:01 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. I was her first call.
Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 08:02 PM by TomInTib
She told me that she just drove home and sat by herself, all day.

I am leaving soon, take her someplace quiet. Maybe play some songs for her.

on edit:

I just got this from ocelot. I couldn't recall the company's name.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/07...

Just a little ditty he wrote called 'Stairway to Heaven'. :-)

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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 08:15 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. I just bought the tickets.
Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 08:23 PM by TomInTib
Shana Morrison (Van's daughter) is opening for the one and only Sonny Landreth at The Great American Music Hall.

Gonna dance the soles offa our shoes, guaranteed.

edited:

I forgot to add that this show is Friday night.

In the meantime...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x41695
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 05, 2008, 02:34:35 PM: How can anyone get a job in this horrible Boooosh economy?
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: bijou on August 05, 2008, 02:38:34 PM: Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on August 05, 2008, 02:34:35 PM
How can anyone get a job in ~~this horrible Boooosh economy~~ Tom's fantasy world?

Fixed. :-)
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Carl on August 05, 2008, 02:49:41 PM: Quote
She told me that she just drove home and sat by herself, all day.

Strange seeing how the interview and the hire in the op was yesterday and last night.

The truth is never hard to remember and keep straight,a lie will always catch you.
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on August 05, 2008, 03:53:34 PM: Quote
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 08:01 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. I was her first call.
Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 08:02 PM by TomInTib
She told me that she just drove home and sat by herself, all day.

I am leaving soon, take her someplace quiet. Maybe play some songs for her.

on edit:

I just got this from ocelot. I couldn't recall the company's name.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/07...

Just a little ditty he wrote called 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Or maybe play her some of those songs that bastard Mark Germino tried to steal from him! :-)
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Chris_ on August 05, 2008, 04:00:44 PM: We've got Bouncy tales. We've got stretchies. I think we need to have TiTty tales in honor of possibly the biggest fabricator on the web.
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Tucker on August 05, 2008, 04:14:20 PM: Quote
I just got off the phone with her a few minutes ago

And he made a bee line to report it to the DUnderheads. Sure. I believe that. :thatsright:
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 05, 2008, 04:29:48 PM: My wife is in that line of work and business is bad, small town and all, you know. She's down to only working 44+ hours a week now........ :-)
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: BlueStateSaint on August 05, 2008, 05:12:09 PM: Quote from: ChuckJ on August 05, 2008, 04:00:44 PM
We've got Bouncy tales. We've got stretchies. I think we need to have TiTty tales in honor of possibly the biggest fabricator on the web.

H5 and seconded!
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: DixieBelle on August 05, 2008, 05:29:38 PM: Is this one of the three women he's ~~sponging off of~~ living with? :whatever:
Title: Re: A friend of mine was laid off last week and was hired yesterday.
Post by: Splashdown on August 05, 2008, 06:45:07 PM: At least TiT isn't PLAYING with Sonny Landreth this time. He's slipping.