Varud

Ok, it’s official.  At least as far as New York is concerned, it’s a Depression – yes, with a capital ‘D’.  Let me count – 1, 2, 3 people I can think of off the top of my head no longer have a job.

The first one worked at Goldman Sachs and CSFB doing Mortgage Backed Securities – I guess that was a foregone conclusion

The second was doing journeyman architecture for a financial company.  He loves architecture but he’d really do any job that requires a brain and gives him a reliable paycheck.

Now that I think of it, I know an actual architect who lost his job as well.

Oh, and the third person is a Senior Windows Systems Administrator.  That’s a skill that should still be in demand even in this environment – although he was just laid off with zero severance.

If anybody needs one of these people – send me a line.

A friend of mine was laid off yesterday.  He worked at a company doing enterprise search services for large organizations.  His focus was on the media industry in NY – which I guess isn’t buying entreprise search as much as other industries.

I find this a bit disconcerting.  Hopefully for the city, that company had other problems.  It sounded like they didn’t get the VC round they were hoping for and that’s certainly an issue.  I’m surprised that a company at that stage wouldn’t be cash flow positive.  They had well over 100 people.

If anybody needs work, let me know.  I run across good jobs sometimes.