You can hardly open the newspaper or turn on the TV without hearing about some major corporation laying off thousands, or a dot-com company booting an entire staff in a sitting. Numbers tell part of the story. A sobering 540,519 cuts nationwide were recorded from December 2000 through March, compared with just 186,535 for the same quarter a year earlier, according to the Chicago-based outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray and Christmas. And behind those numbers are thousands of different layoff tales - from the delicate to the downright dirty. Here are some of the lowlights.
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An Unwanted Package For David Fogle, the boot came by way of FedEx. But by then, he was virtually the last to know. Fogle was wrapping up a field job for the Crystal Lake manufacturing firm he'd worked with for nine years. The Barrington man was about to be laid off. The next day, the news trickled down to Fogle, in the form of a FedEx package delivered to his home.