Layoffs

If you saw a co-worker stealing money from another co-workers purse would you tell on them? You probably would because you wouldn't want someone stealing from you. Would you cover for someone if they told you to they couldn't come into work because they were taking the day off with no real reason why they shouldn't come in?

Everybody knows that the recession will be over some day, but if the nation's first citizen's words are to be valued, it is going to stay a bit longer than previously anticipated.

If you drive less than an hour outside of any major city in America, you will very quickly begin to see a different world. Typically, in the best neighborhoods and areas, the lawns are well maintained and there is not much to see beyond trees, flowers, and shrubs. When you start getting into poorer neighborhoods outside of major cities, however, you begin to see things like automobiles on blocks rusting in front yards and the landscape looks a lot different. I've ridden through these neighborhoods with wealthy people from larger cities. At least once I heard someone say something like, ''Why don't they clean up that mess?''

For a portion of one summer when I was younger, I had a valet job at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club outside of Detroit, Michigan. I worked during the lunch hour and spent most of my time sitting in a small air conditioned shed in a corner of the parking lot waiting for cars to pull up. When a car would pull up, I would fling open the door to the shed and run over to the car, hand the person a ticket, and park the car.