Comments on: NFL Teams Use Economy As Excuse To Fire Staff http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Fri, 25 May 2012 17:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: daniel http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68481 daniel Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:34:59 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68481 He was the only other human at the loading dock this morning. The man didn't have a name, just a number, like the rest of the robots. He was the only other human at the loading dock this morning. The man didn't have a name, just a number, like the rest of the robots.

]]> By: Reil http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68480 Reil Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:33:43 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68480 Today was rice day, fifty-pound sacks of white rice in trucks bearing an elephant logo. The same happy elephant appeared on the bags, its head raised to the sky, the trunk curved like an S.      "Elephant," Todd said.      He said it because a laborer was staring at it intently. Which meant he wasn't working.      "That's right," the man said. "I couldn't remember the word."      He was the only other human at the loading dock this morning. The man didn't have a name, just a number, like the rest of the robots.<a href="http://www.short-stories.co.uk/"> Paris, at Night</a>. Today was rice day, fifty-pound sacks of white rice in trucks bearing an elephant logo. The same happy elephant appeared on the bags, its head raised to the sky, the trunk curved like an S.
     "Elephant," Todd said.
     He said it because a laborer was staring at it intently. Which meant he wasn't working.
     "That's right," the man said. "I couldn't remember the word."
     He was the only other human at the loading dock this morning. The man didn't have a name, just a number, like the rest of the robots.<a href="http://www.short-stories.co.uk/"> Paris, at Night</a>.

]]> By: Brad S http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68413 Brad S Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:13:29 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nfl-teams-use-economy-as-excuse-to-fire-staff-22695#comment-68413 It's not just the NFL, either; MLB is doing the same sort of "just in case" layoffs. Furthermore, does anyone out there believe WalMart is doing anything other than increasing YOY profits? Yet WalMart just recently laid people off at corporate, citing a "just in case something really bad happens" reason. I suspect there's a lot of this sort of thinking going on in corporate America. It's not just the NFL, either; MLB is doing the same sort of "just in case" layoffs. Furthermore, does anyone out there believe WalMart is doing anything other than increasing YOY profits? Yet WalMart just recently laid people off at corporate, citing a "just in case something really bad happens" reason.

I suspect there's a lot of this sort of thinking going on in corporate America.

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