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Pastimes : All Clowns Must Be Destroyed

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To: Terry Whitman who wrote (41367)6/22/2000 9:19:00 AM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) of 42523
 
<WTF was that NYTimes article?>

SAN FRANCISCO, June
21 -- Laura Schmidt took
an Internet job 10 months ago
packed with promise: a big raise,
stocks she figured could some
day be worth $5 million and the
chance at early retirement.
Unfortunately, her leisure time
came way too soon.

Three weeks ago, Ms. Schmidt
received a pink slip from
ThirdAge Media, a Web site for
baby boomers, laid off in the
Internet industry's first significant
shakeout. As quickly and
aggressively as they filled their
cubicles last year, dozens of
dot-coms across the country are
unloading employees in an effort
to meet a seemingly obvious goal heretofore put on indefinite hold: make
a profit.

The layoffs signal an end to the unbounded optimism of some dot-com
employees who flocked to start-ups in hopes of developing sudden
wealth, but who now say they are approaching new job offers with more
caution. And the very stock market that once held the keys to new
wealth may now be equally responsible not just for lowered expectations,
but for lost jobs.

etc, etc....

DAK
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