>I was "downsized" on January 11th, and have been dutifully searching for a
>new job. They are very rare here in Massachusetts (the subject of another
>thread).
>
>Yesterday I had to attend some sort of session at the Department of
>Employment and Training (i.e. the unemployment office). There were about
>10 of us in the room, and nobody knew why we were "selected." We found
>out at the start of the session. Apparently when we first filed a claim
>and they took all our information, either our job title or our industry
>was flagged as being on a downward trend.
>
>WHAT? HUH? Okay, I've read enough to know that's not entirely true. I
>have to believe it's because my last job was as a tech writer for an
>engineering company, and there were actually 5 people from engineering
>companies. But gee, way to motivate people to go find a job.