Tag Archive for ‘fired’

3. Series: The Journey of an Unemployed Male

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From Fear to Acceptance – The Emotional Job Coaster
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Being told that you have lost your job is only the first step in a long emotional journey. The typical emotional rollercoaster experienced by someone who has lost a job is the feeling of rejection or a sense of failure;  anger or frustration; fear; and sometimes even [...]

2. Series: The Journey of an Unemployed Male

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Fired: Just Flicked Away
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“One day you are climbing the corporate ladder and feel like you are on top of the world and the next they call you in and flick you out of the company just like that.” Mike Lover

 
Mike Lover had worked at Intrawest for nearly nine years when he was called in [...]

1. Series: The Journey of an Unemployed Male

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Young, Educated and Jobless: Meet Mike Lover
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The LA Times is calling this the “he-cession”.
 
Why?
 
The facts show that the current credit crisis is hitting men particularly hard. The official male unemployment rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics) for August 2009 hit 10.1 percent. Here are the startling facts:
 

There are now more than five unemployed [...]

Judgment Day!

I just finished reading a great article in the New York Times magazine titled: Judgment Day. Why did it catch my attention? It was an article about Annemarie Bean who recently lost her teaching job, due to a failure to meet the expected benchmark in student evaluations of her.
 
According to the article, her teaching [...]