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04.16.2009 8:33 am

Is there a ‘good’ way to tell someone they’re being let go?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The recession has cost hundreds of thousands of people across the United States their jobs, and the bad news keeps rolling in. A report today says Best Buy will cut salaries and lay off workers as it reorganizes.

In Wisconsin, a nurse was called out of surgery so she could be laid off. Locally, a police officer in East St. Louis was commended for his actions in arresting a suspect in the shooting death of a grocery security guard — then he got laid off.

In dozens of news accounts on TV, in print, on the Internet, we’ve seen or read about…

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02.03.2009 7:29 am

Are you getting ready for a possible layoff?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yesterday, the news was from Macy’s — the retailer would cut 7,000 jobs

Last week, the jobs cuts came from almost everywhere – Caterpillar, Pfizer, GM, Home Depot, Sprint Nextel, and the list goes on.  

The Post-Dispatch hasn’t been immune. Neither has Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Enterprise, and the St. Louis Archdiocese.

We all know — and we’ve been told by all the experts — it’s going to take a good long while for the economy to recover. When I work the concession stand at our high school basketball games, talk that once turned to the teams and the kids now turns to the economy.

Plenty of the…

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