From: Richard B. 

On Tue, 25 May 2004 21:03:42 -0400, janel  wrote:

>There has been a happy blitz of hiring here lately.  I myself found 2
>full-time, permanent positions within 6 months of one another.  (I
>left the first one to take the second one.)

Dance, dance, dance!

> I don't know exactly how many IT people work over there, but it's a sizable
shop.

I noticed the jobless rate in Greenville County was 4.3%.  Isn't that close
enough to full employment from a pragmatic POV? The natural rate of
unemployment in the United States is approximately 5.5%.  Low, say zero
umemployment is not a good thing in and of itself and will never happen
anyway.

Seriously, I know IT jobs are still recovering but employment is there for
the asking.

>The company that laid me off 2 years ago is gradually pulling out.
>There were only 30 people left in Greenville proper after we were let
>go, and now one of the business units is leaving in June.  The
>remaining business unit is only about 12 people.  I just don't see
>them having a job much longer, and one of them has already bailed out
>and joined us.

I see Nuvox and NewSouth in my travels up and down main street, while I am
desperately avoiding asking for directions.  Are these shops moving people?

We are literally filled to the gills here, conference rooms are turning
cubes.  If the economy doesn't get as bad as it is suppose to be, we're
going to burst and Bush will have to live with that as well.


- Richard

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