SF News Make $287,000/Year as SF Police Chief -- Apply Now! Bob Murray & Associates needs your help, folks. They need to fill a nifty position -- one that could land you a cool $287,000/year, the scorn of overeducated white liberals, all
SF News Unemployment Benefits Extended Today, the California State Senate "passed legislation that will extend benefits to the unemployed by 20 weeks, sending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the first bill involving money from the federal economic stimulus package," according
SF News Obama Offers $535 Million Loan Guarantee to Fremont's Solyndra, Inc. According to a White House report, "Energy Secretary Steven Chu today offered a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc. to support the company’s construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its
SF News Kaiser Kills 275 Bay Area Jobs Chipping away at the employment rate in the Bay Area, health corporation Kaiser Permanente plans to eliminate 275 jobs in Walnut Creek, Napa, and Pleasanton as it "restructures its information technology operations." The
SF News Sacramento Bee Snips 128 Jobs Sigh. The Sacramento Bee tells AP that they plan on "cutting 128 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, as revenue continues to fall in the beleaguered newspaper industry." The death toll by
SF News Your Official California State Worker Layoff Notice "In the face of a $42 billion budget shortfall, and still no budget, measures are needed to preserve the State’s cash." And with that begins the official layoff letter sent out to
SF News Schwarzenegger set to send layoff notices on Tuesday Budget or not, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is all set to send layoff notices (warnings) to 20,000 state workers. According to the Sacramento Bee, "those with the least seniority among the approximately 100,
SF News Job Losses Largest Decline Since 1974 More grim news from the employed sector. According to the Chronicle (not AP!?), "January's payroll job losses were the steepest one-month decline since the end of 1974 when the nation was battling another
SF News Williams-Sonoma to Cut 1,400 Jobs Due to the sickly economy, San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma plans on cutting a whopping 1,400 jobs. The gourmet cookware store -- where you can buy wildly expensive waffle irons, potato ricers, bowls, asparagus
SF News Google Prunes 100 Jobs In the throes of our failing economy, Google trimmed 100 jobs and close three offices this week. According to reports, 100 full-time recruiters were shown the door. Google also shutdown three engineering offices
SF News Bank of America to Prune Up to 35,000 Job Bank of America (who used to be based in San Francisco) has announced plans to cut anywhere from 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years. As the company sucks
SF News 400 SF City Workers Out of a Job After yesterday's rare appearance before the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his team's $118 million in proposed "mid-year solutions." Part of said solution will be to eliminate 400 city jobs. While
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009: Unemployment Rate by the Numbers In some more grim news, California's unemployment rate skyrocketed from 7.7 percent in September to 8.2 percent in October. The numbers go like this: the state of California's unemployment numbers are
SF News WaMu to Cut 1,600 Bay Area Jobs It was announced today that Washington Mutual , which was shoved under the thumb of federal regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in September, will close its Pleasanton campus and eliminate hundreds of San
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009 Awful news, everyone! Most Bay Area executives believe that the economy will get worse through 2009. But wait, it gets worse! The Bay Area Council surveyed 509 executives, and the results show that
SF News Sun Microsystems to Cut 6,000 Jobs Santa Clara-based Sun announced today that it will lance up to 6,000 jobs. Why? Because Sun's shares have sunk so far that it's "driving the company's market value below its cash on
SF News Employees at Wired, Six Apart Cut Loose Wow. Current TV wasn't the only one hit today. Other SoMa/Mission Bay world-wide-web dabblers also felt the economic pinch. "A quarter of the 50-something employees in Wired.com's San Francisco newsroom" are
SF News Yahoo Announces Layoffs It was officially announced today that at least 1,500 jobs are set to get cut at Yahoo, which effectively hacks off 10 percent of the Sunnyvale Web portal's staff. This most recent
SF News Oakland A's Mascot Needed The A's need you help, folks. They are currently seeking a part-time, seasonal Stomper. The Oakland Athletics' mascot is responsible for but not limited to the following: Performing at all A’s Wednesday,
SF News <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> to Cut 125 Positions Employees were offered sweet buyout dealsa at the Chronicle today. The number we're hearing right now is that around 125 (as reports) jobs need to be pruned. Our sources tell us that the
SF News Protesting Mayor Newsom's Shiny New Budget Speaking of our fine mayor, Newsom's recently released budget plan, it seems, will "terminate critical health and human services, while pumping up salaries for police by 25% and adding many new high paid
SF News Show Us Your Pink Slips: Newsom To Eliminate 450 City Employees From the Payroll While he wouldn't say whether or not Cynthia Thompson will receive a much deserved ax, today Mayor Gavin Newsom did announce that he will hack away at some 1,000 city jobs as
SF News WSJ Expose: Bulgarians Are Stealing Our Jobs! (By Eyleen Tavy) Don't ask us what we were doing reading the Wall Street Journal this morning (aside: have you ever looked at Kevin Sprouls', the guy who does the Journal's portraits, other
SF News Layoffs II: San Jose Mercury News In more pink slip sadness today, (owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group) eliminated 50 jobs. Fifteen newsroom employees and 19 employees from "other parts of the paper" were let go today. Citing a loss
SF News Pizza Delivery Gone Wrong What makes the story even sadder is that the deliveryman was a 38-year-old immigrant named Thanh Thach who became a U.S. citizen last September and leaves two children. He was working two
