Rumors that California based domestic spying data collection and storage company, NettApp, is laying off 1400 employees! Part of the rumors came from former EMC (also a domestic spying company, laid off 1800 employees) employees who said they’ve been hit with thousands of job inquiries from NettApp employees. The NettApp layoffs are part of the company’s plans to get rid of poor performing departments. Rumors also say NettApp is laying off employees in United Kingdom. Also in California, Applebees closed their Arroyo Grande restaurant, Applebees is bankrupt. The restaurant manager said Applebees plans on closing restaurants in Colorado and New Mexico. Apparently the Dairy Queen in Livermore closed. The city of Turlock plans to layoff 19 employees. City officials say they’re short $1.7 million USD!
The Energizer bunny just keeps losing steam. Reports that an undisclosed amount of employees at the Asheboro, North Carolina factory will be laid off. Energizer already laid off 100 people at the factory in March! Advertising agency McKinney laid off 30 people in Durham. They blamed it on the loss of a major client, Qwest, who got bought out by Century Link. Two branch offices of BB&T bank closed in Columbus County. Apparently the locations were too small townish for the bank, revenues being too low. For many people they’ll have to drive 20 miles to the nearest bank! (I say go cash only!) And North Carolina based pharmaceutical services giant, Quintiles, announced 400 layoffs worldwide! Interesting because at the same time company officials claim they have 900 positions available?
CPM Federal Credit Union closed three branch offices in South Carolina. The credit union is “restructuring”.
In Pennsylvania, the PNC Bank closing ten offices in the Pittsburgh area! They’ve already closed 65 offices, and plan to close a total of 200 offices across the eastern U.S. by the end of this year! Bank officials claim that most of their customers have switched to online banking.
In Maryland, the First Mariner Bank to close three offices in three cities. Bank officials said they had to cut costs, and that many customers switched to online banking.
United kingdom based Too Big to Jail HSBC bank laying off 14000 people around the World!!! Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver is already responsible for killing 46000 jobs and 52 businesses around the World!!! Gulliver told analysts “We’re not even halfway through unlocking the value in HSBC.” HSBC has hundreds of offices in the U.S., and owns several buildings in New York.
United Kingdom based Too Big to Jail RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) revealed they will layoff more people around the World (at least 1400), and close more offices. In 2008-09 RBS got the biggest bank bailout in the World! They’ve already laid off 37000 people! RBS operates in the U.S. through Rhode Island based Citizens Financial Group (Citizens Bank and Charter One).
In New York, Ulster County warned employees at the Golden Hill nursing home that layoffs were coming. The nursing home is being sold! And the Malone Veterans Affairs clinic being closed down in August. Apparently it has something to do with the number of veterans seeking help dropping below the magic 700 mark.
In Ohio, Mercy Hospital eliminated 18 jobs, blamed on decreased customers and decreased funding caused by the Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act.
Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance laid off 55 people across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Utah (some reports said 56). Regence is outsourcing claims processing to a company in New Jersey.
In Hood River, Oregon, CenturyLink closed a call center and laid off 51 employees. After 40 years of business, For What It’s Worth Records shut down in Clackamas. The owner doesn’t blame internet competition, because he says he has stuff you can’t get on the internet. Instead he blames the recent 60% increase in international shipping rates by the USPS. Most his customers are in other countries. (I can relate to that, and the main streamer news media said the rate hikes wouldn’t affect online businesses!)
In Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Building 19 discount store closed down. The owners blame the bad economy: “We did everything we could to keep that store alive, but it just didn’t make sense for us. We have people who have worked at that store for 20 years, 30 years, back to the days of Spag’s.”-William Elovitz
IBM laid off 17 contract workers at its Essex Junction factory in Vermont. IBM is moving jobs to Argentina and China.
In Michigan, New Yorker children’s clothing store closed after 76 years of business! The owners said their decision to get out of the business is “Just in time.”, regarding the bad economy. They also blamed unAmerican corporate America for destroying mom & pop operations: “It’s just mom and pop retail. It’s just old time retail. We talk to everybody and try to help them out. We’ve been here a long time.”-Jack Karr
Germany based steel company, ThyssenKrupp, to layoff at least 3000 people around the World, and sell off its Brazil and U.S. steel factories!
In Florida, the city of Vero Beach says it needs to cut $2.2 million from the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, which means layoffs are coming. Flagler County Schools warned of possible layoffs for 28 employees. It all depends on voters who are willing to screw themselves by voting for a new tax to support the schools. In Sharpes, Corky Bell’s Seafood Restaurant closed. It’s blamed on NASA downsizing at nearby Kennedy Space Center.
The publisher of Parenting and Baby Talk magazines sold out to the publisher of Parent and American Baby magazines. The result is 65 people lost their jobs.