From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:44:08 -0600, Robert G Lewis
 wrote:

> I don't consider the unemployment rate to be a good number, after some
> amount of time people are no longer counted. What the real conditions
> are I don't have a clue. Looking solely at Employees on nonfarm payrolls
> it
> doesn't look  good. Unless we have had a loss of population the number of
> payroll employees has dropped .  If you know of a better way of looking
> at the numbers over time I would like to know about it ( not being a
> smart ass here, just want to know ). I won't even claim to know
> anything about any of this 
> Bob Lewis

While I was laid off, for 10 months, I spent some months doing what ended
up being part-time contracting work on the Sub Base, before finally getting
a real job (first anniversary this Friday, AAMOF).  Last night I ran into
my old team lead: after the Christmas break they finally started up again
in March or April, but cut the team from 20-odd to about five. He was doing
his lead work *and* some installs, and getting pressured because they
weren't working hard enough.  He finally bailed and is currently
unemployed.  I submitted his and the other lead's resumes to my company as
soon as I was hired, but no dice; we are still in a slump as far as phone
systems go.

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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