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The Great Recession – on film – this Friday

My friend Austin Chu and his brother have made a documentary based on their six-month journey throughout the United States looking to find the human face of the Great Recession. That's the same recession, by the way, that led to Read More →

EXTRA! EXTRA! KRIS LANDS A JOB!!!!!!

Two-hundred and ninety-seven long days after he lost his aviation-tech job at San Jose's airport, Kris Rowberry is finally finding salvation. When he starts his new job on Monday moving and tracking supplies throughout Stanford Read More →

Another week, another bit of suspense

Kris updated me this morning on the first of his two interviews. Still up in the air:
Tomorrow is the other one, at 11:00am @ Stanford Hospital. The first one was interesting - I cam e in just as Read More →

The days drag on…

It has been more than a year, and oru three Pink Slip folks are still hanging out there - jobless, pretty much interviewless, trying to network and work the online job boards, but growing tired and frustrated. Read More →

Update from Kris…

I was bored with my time after the long cold call out to Walnut Creek for Wing and a Prayer, Inc. (Mr. Ellison) and coming home on BART, so I whipped out the ol' notebook and started Read More →

A little bit of back n’ forth…

Apparently, my second Pink Slip 2.0 installment generated a bit of heat among our participants. Here's a bit of their provocative exchange, which I think shows the different styles different job-hunters are taking out there: Read More →
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