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Old 12-03-2008, 09:10 PM
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Well...The economy hit home for me today

My wife was laid off from her job this morning along with about a dozen others. She was in marketing working for a company who works with catalog retailers.

We have a family meeting on Saturday to see how we can trim the fat considering we will have $75,000 a year less in income and the cost of adding her and our son to my health-care plan.

Christmas will be thin this year and to add insult to injury I lost my iPhone yesterday which I did not realize how much I needed until it was gone.

Not like I can justify going out and spending $500 on another phone...Back to my Motorola flip.

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Old 12-03-2008, 09:21 PM
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Sorry to hear that, MLG.

Unfortunately it is just a matter of time until this happens to more and more people. I can feel your pain though. I am in the Real Estate industry and am lucky to be working at all. To add insult to injury, all the assets that most of us have are depreciating daily. Pretty depressing overall.

Hopefully things will get better as we get deeper into 2009, but who knows for sure.
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:22 PM
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Sorry to hear that

Job retention is a big concern of mine -- unfortunately, the NY metropolitan area is an expensive area to live in with a lot of unemployment (and it's only going to get worse).

And losing the iPhone is not so bad. Actually, I'm wrong on that. It is My life would be a lot less fun without my gadgets that I can't do without: X5, PC and iPhone...
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:43 PM
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That sucks man.
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:45 PM
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Sorry MLG
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:49 PM
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I may be able to help you out on a 1st generation iPhone. If interested, send me a PM and we can talk off-line.
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:52 PM
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That really sucks..
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Old 12-03-2008, 10:07 PM
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Sorry to hear...hopefully they provided a fair severance that will allow her the needed time to gather herself before returning to the market.
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Old 12-03-2008, 10:10 PM
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Old 12-03-2008, 10:16 PM
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Sorry to hear that, MLG.
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