SF News Microsoft to Delete 5,000 Jobs Oy. Citing an economic downturn, Microsoft plans on pruning up to 5,000 jobs in the next year and a half, or 5.5% of its global workforce. They will 'cleanse' over 1,
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 Stock Market Dips On Obama High Holy Day While women screamed hysterically at the site of Barack Obama making the trek to the White House -- like he was some sort of Rick(y) Schroder! -- the stock market didn't agree
SF News BART Wants to Reduce Service, Increase Fares Due to a budget shortfall of up to $90 million this year, BART officials are considering slower BART service and increased fares and fees. In addition to a possible fare hike of 10
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 Google Unloads Loads of Temp Workers Due to the ongoing recession, Google, who can do no wrong in our eyes, has let many of its temporary workers go. The Mountain View-based company, according to Business Week, has an estimated
SF News Grim Times for the Unemployed San Francisco Firemen Application Line from Unemploymentality on Vimeo. After companies across the country cut 533,000 jobs in November alone -- with another 3 million more predicted between now and 2010, at
SF News Database: Who is laying off workers in California? Looking for a job? Well, if you have a specific company or California location in mind, you might want to check out this handy (albeit depressing) database, care of the Sacramento Bee, which
SF News It's Official: We're in a Recession A "panel of key analysts" claim that the U.S. in officially in a recession. But you knew that already. The DOW is down 436 points today and (let's face it) things are
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 Current TV Sacks 30+ Employees Emmy-awarding Current TV -- YouTube for the Atlantic Monthly set, and a site we have grown to love over the last year -- is handing out the pink slips today. Alas. According to
SF News Extend unemployment benefits, says Obama During his first address to the nation since the election, President-elect Barack Obama, after answering numerous inane questions about getting a dog, called Friday for an extension of unemployment benefits. Awesome. Seeing as
SF News Where's the Stimulus, Gavin? Halloween comes early at City Hall after Newsom's "economic stimulus package" press conference, which is being referred to as one of the "ugliest news conferences" in ages. Mild-mannered yet astute Jim Herd was
misc <i>Recession: The Movie</I> Informs, Tickles In effort to beef up our anti-Republican credibility--while helping diminish San Francisco's continually creepy anti-Hillary sentiment--here were have a delightful and much needed anti-McCain video. It's brimming with biting satire, cinematic parody, and
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
