The economy hits close to home

[sorek]

In the past 24 hours I've just found out that two of my friends were laid off. One of them was expecting to be laid off when his union job ended. In his case the end just came a few weeks sooner than expected. My other friend just had vague "the economy is bad and the company I work for isn't doing well" feelings.

I'm safe so far, but I'm a lot more nervous now than I was 24 hours ago.