Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education layoffs & school shutdowns, January 2016:
Arizona: Phoenix based rip off artist Apollo Education Group (owner […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Arizona: Phoenix based rip off artist Apollo Education Group (owner of University of Phoenix,Western International University, Axia College, and College for Financial Planning) eliminated 70 jobs, as part of their plan to “re-engineer” the for-profit education operation due to crashing revenues. (possible due to the federal Department of Education […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: In San Francisco, Belcampo Meat Company shutting down their Mission Street butcher shop. The operators of the butcher shop chain said the Mission Street location could not maintain enough volume sales to justify its existence. In Desert Hot Springs, after 70 years Haidet’s True Value Hardware […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: What automotive industry recovery? Brazil based brake parts maker Fras’le eliminating 50 jobs at its Prattville factory, by the end of February. Administrators blame crashing sales in Brazil and China, which are being exacerbated by international currency wars. In Fairfield, residents are lamenting the loss (before the end of […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: Walmart revealed their store shutdowns in The Golden State will result in 1-thousand 652 jobs lost by April 15th! In Santa Maria, Eldorado Berry Farms issued a “permanent” layoff WARN, 654 jobs lost by the end of April! Superior Farming issued a layoff WARN, […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: AAR Aerostructures & Interiors ending metal fabrication ops in Huntsville, 72 jobs lost. Administrators said they need to “refocus” their business.
Arizona: In Chandler, after 25 years Video Paradise shutting down next week.
California: In San Francisco, after more than ten years the upscale Bourbon Steak shutting down in March, the […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: Yet more Palo Alto tech employees in trouble, VMWare warning employees of mass layoffs due to their merger with Dell and EMC, as many as 9-hundred jobs lost! But wait there’s a whole lot more! Redwood Shores based Global Equities Research predicts that as many as […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: Sunset Landing Golf Course shutting down by the end of the month, as the owner (the Airport Authority) looks for better money making ways to use the land.
Alaska: Swamp Donkey Oilfield Services laying off 70 employees, owner Trent Lindberg warned “This is going to be widespread…….Overhead is too high to […] Continue Reading…
18 January 2016: Four more
Here’s the updated list (new shutdowns in bold) of U.S. store closings that I’ve been compiling since the end of 2011:
Arizona: The Prescott Valley Kmart shutting down by April. No word on how many jobs lost, but one employee was quoted by local news as saying “Walmart won.” Local news […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: Sears Holdings confirmed that the Prattville Kmart will shutdown in April, 70 jobs lost.
California: What did you get when you got laid off? It’s been revealed that Newark based StemCells Incorporated gave its recently ‘resigned’ CEO a $1-million USD severance package! Pier 1 Imports shutting down their […] Continue Reading…