2008 Layoffs and Counting

Who wants to add to this list? How much bailout money did some of these companies get? And the government wants to add another 800+ BILLION?

Adobe Systems - 600
Advanced Micro Devices - 500
Akamai - 110
Alcoa - 15,200
American Airlines - 7,000
American Express - 7,000
AT&T - 12,000
Bank of America - 35,000
Bank of America - 928
Bank of America (Countrywide) - 7,500
Barclay’s - 400
Bennigan’s Restaurants - 9,300
Boeing - 800
British TeleCom - 10,000
Chrysler - 1,825
Circuit City - 7,305
Citigroup - 59,000
Credit Suisse - 5,300
Daimler Trucks - 2,100
Dell - 8,900
DHL (US Division) - 9,500
Dow Chemical - 5,000
Fidelity Investments - 4,000
General Motors - 19,000
GMAC - 5,000
Goldman Sachs 4,760
Google - 6,000-4,300
Hewlett Packard & Electronic Data Systems - 24,500
HSBC - 1,100
HSBC North American Holdings - 1,350
International Paper - 1,500-1,000
JP Morgan/Bear Stearns Acquisition - 9,160
JP Morgan/Washington Mutual Acquisition - 9,200
Lehman Brothers - 16,000
Lehman Brothers - 2,900
Lenovo - 1,250
Level 3 Communications - 450
Linens ‘n Things - 21,250
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics - 850
Macy’s - 960
Merrill Lynch - 5,650
Morgan Stanley - 4,100
NASA - 7,000
Nissan - 1,200
Nokia - 2,950
Nortel Networks - 2,100
Palm - 200
PepesiCo - 3,300
Reliance Group - 5,000
Siemens Enterprise Communications - 3,800
Sony (USA) - 8,000
Sprint Nextel - 4,000
Starbuck’s - 12,000
Sun Microsystems - 6,000
Texas Instruments - 650
University of Texas Medical Branch - 3,800
Wachovia - 11,250
Woolworths - 700
Yahoo! - 1,500-1,000