Un signe de la crise?

28 avril, 2009

Selon un article du Daily Mail, 238 Anglais auraient appliqués pour un poste d’éboueur à 14 000 euros comme salaire!

Jobseekers have been forced to lower their expectations and try for the most basic of posts, even if it means huge pay cuts and far worse conditions, since employers are spoilt for choice and can ‘cherry pick’ who they want.

(vu ici)

Vous êtes dans le marché pour un nouveau char? Et bien vous avez l’embarras du choix! Regardez-moi toutes ces voitures qui n’attendent que d’être vendue!


Voitures invendues
Ce billet est une présentation de GM, Ford, Chrysler, Peugeot, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, bref carrément tous les constructeurs automobiles qui sont dans l’trou à cause de la crise financière…

(Source: Business Insider, via l’excellent blogue de Pierre Jovanovic)

La banquer HSBC est en train de foirer, mais cinq de ses top banksters ont reçut des bonus totalisant 33,6M de livres sterling! Carrément hallucinant!

Elle est pas belle la vie?

Vive la crise!

13 février, 2009

Vous le savez, la crise économique est partout dans l’actualité. Chaque semaine, les mises à pied s’accumulent et de plus en plus de gens se retrouvent au chômage.

C’est mon cas. 

Pourtant, je ne peux pas m’empêcher de penser que tout ça est bénéfique. C’est une occasion en or de se remettre en question, tant au niveau individuel que collectif. 

 

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.


We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.


We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.


We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.


We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.


These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…

- Georges Carlin.
Difficile de résumer mieux notre situation que ça. Ça me donne des frissons.
La crise économique, c’est la claque qui va nous secouer, nous réveiller. C’est le moment ou jamais de changer. 

Les Traders Anonymes

11 février, 2009

Excellent!