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The company I work for has recently filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and is closing a multitude of stores and laying off thousands of employees (myself included). We were informed that if we quit (including with two week notice) anytime during the liquidation process (from now until “sometime in April”), we would automatically be blacklisted from the company and its affiliates and would not be permitted to use them as a reference for future employment. I was perfectly fine with this until they cut me completely off from work. I am still considered employed, but I receive no hours and therefore, have no money. I honestly, need food stamps and/or unemployment at the moment until I can find a job, but I would have to quit from Borders to do so, but by doing so, the company will try and “screw” me over. What am I suppose to do and can a company actually do this??

ok, im sorry to be so self pitying here but I need some good advice. I recently graduated from uni with a bare pass degree.
It was disappointing considering I was ,in high school, an A grade student. I worked my socks off at school and felt when the results paid off and when I was done with the all-paid place in a prestigious uni I managed to be accepted into then the world would be at my finger tips.
But I took ill n I had to drop out in my final year and then i had to PAY about 1000 to sit my final year which meant I couldn’t save to go on any work placements abroad.
I then took ill again, (auto immune) had to study very late for exams and got a ok result considering, but despite this my lecturers told me in my second year that I would get a first class cert as I was showing very high grades from 1st year.
I cannot get employment just now as I keep getting informed that they want years of work experience or a higher degree award .
My catch 22 is that when applying for a post graduate place uni’s (so i can improve my grade) all refuse me on my final grade, so i cant improve it and cant get a job.
I have asked companies for work experience and they told me they can’t offer anything as I’m not studying or and undergraduate (this is for internships) . For work placements over seas you have to be affiliated to a uni so I cant do that and independant companies come at a high cost as do other paid qualifications. As competition is so high for both employment and education Im finding myself in between a rock and a hard place being told by the job centre to “try harder” .
I wasnt to emigrate but cant as i do have an illness (and the NHS is free) . My life is a stale mate just not. I see old high school folks who left school with nothing now in good jobs and I am questioning my life choices . I love learning and its killing me not being able to do aNYTHING with my qualities.

free trade working to make everyone poorer
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America’s largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford’s new “global” manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.