Cormac Eubanks sends one of my favorite indicators to date -- the team names from his local pub trivia game. He writes:

I live in San Francisco and the Bay Area had been considered somewhat insulated from the downturn as Silicon Valley is less dependent on the traditional banking system than it is from small private investors. Recently though the stories of friends being laid off at companies large and small have become more numerous. Here's an interesting indicator of how the trend is beginning to settle in even here. At a pub quiz last night at the Edinburgh Castle, 3 of the 10 team names in the bar were:
- "8,000 Sprint Employees Now Have Free Daytime Minutes"
- "I Was Told There Would Be Cake in the Breakroom and Instead They Laid Us Off"
- "Other People's Pinkslips"

categories: Economic Scene

11:08 - January 29, 2009

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