The Downward Trend for America's Working Class continues, unchecked.

[AngryOldDem]

72. My contact person has been with the company for 20+ years.

We started there at about the same time; I left to freelance because of family considerations.

I so much want to drop him an e-mail, but a part of me is so afraid it will bounce back, or I'll get a robo-response of some kind telling me he's no longer there.

He is also older than me (I'll be 53 in a few days) so you tell me what he's going to do now if indeed he did get laid off.

But I am extremely pissed at the company for not giving any kind of heads-up about the shape it's in. I only found out about this by chance earlier this week when someone (outside the company) said she heard they had let most of their editorial staff go. This was news to me, although I had been finding it odd that I had not heard from anyone. I later found a story on another website from March that detailed how they were restructuring and that their losses were substantial. Then, the e-mail, that confirmed all of the above. I wish I had known all this about three months ago. The utter disrespect that companies show employees of every kind is just as infuriating as the poor treatment we get.