You name it; they're laying people off

Newspapers aren't the only ones being totaled by what is euphenistically called a "recession." I don't mean to be a downer, but it's hard not to be when you see the width and breath of these job losses. And we're not just talking about the USA either.

Check these out (if you want more information, click on the headline):

Expected job losses and announced layoffs in 2009
· GM - 47,000 second round of layoff announcements (restructuring) total = 57,000
· Cambodia Garment Industry - 51,000 jobs lost
· Japan's top 12 automakers - 25,000 combined layoffs expected
· The State of Georgia - furlough 25,000 workers (forced unpaid time off)
· Nissan - 20,000 layoffs
· Caterpillar - 20,000 layoffs
· NEC Corp - 20,000 layoffs
· AstraZeneca - 15,000 layoffs by 2013
· Panasonic - 15,000 layoffs
· KBG Toys - 15,000 expected layoffs
· Pioneer - 10,000 layoffs
· GM - 10,000 layoffs (also cutting pay by 10%)
· Boeing - between 4,500 and 10,000 layoffs pending
· GlaxoSmithKline PLC - 10,000 job losses expected
· Anglo Platinum - 10,000 layoffs
· Sprint Nextel - 8,000 layoffs (14% of staff)
· Pfizer Pharmaceutical - 8,000 layoffs (by end of 2011)
· Hitachi - 7,000 layoffs
· Home Depot - 7,000 layoffs
· Starbucks - 6,700 layoffs
· ING - 7,000 layoffs
· Phillips Electronics - 6,000 layoffs
· Intel - 6,000 layoffs (second round)
· PNC Financial - 5,800 layoffs
· Scandinavian Airlines - 5,600 layoffs
· Lonmin Plc (Mining) - 5,500 layoffs
· UBS - 5,000 layoffs (mostly management, second round)
· Goodyear - 5,000 layoffs
· Whirlpool - 5,000 expected layoffs
· Microsoft - 5,000 layoffs
· Ericsson - 5,000 layoffs
· Freescale - 4,800 layoffs
· Kodak - 4,500 layoffs
· Toshiba - 4,500 layoffs
· Texas Inetrument - 3,400 layoffs
· Nortel Networks - 3,200 layoffs
· Cisco - 3,000 layoffs
· Spansion - 3,000 layoffs
· IBM - 2,800 layoffs
· Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) - 2,300 layoffs
· Micron - 2,000 layoffs
· Estee Lauder - 2,000 layoffs
· General Motors - additional 2,000 layoffs over 2008 total
· Swiss bank UBS AG - 2,000 layoffs
· Fidelity Investments - 1,700 layoffs (second round of 4,000 job cuts announced in 2008)
· Bell Canada - 1,500 early retirement buy outs
· Sun Microsystems - 1,300 layoffs
· Unisys - 1,300 layoffs
· Time/Warner (TV) - 1,250 layoffs
· Harley Davidson - 1,100 layoffs
· Pratt & Whitney (jet makers) - 1,000 layoffs
· United Airlines - 1,000 layoffs
· Walgreen's - 1,000 layoffs
· BorgWarner - 750 layoffs
· Merck & Co. - 750 layoffs (sales reps)
· Liz Claiborne - 725 layoffs
· AOL - 700 layoffs
· Virgin Airlines - 600 layoffs
· Neimen Marcus - 450 layoffs
· Harrah's Memphis - 250 layoffs, 50 transfers to Las Vegas
· Ryanair - 200 layoffs
· John Deere - 200 layoffs
· Walt Disney - 200 layoffs
· Michelin Canada - 95 layoffs
· Billy Graham Crusade - 55 layoffs
· Dow Chemicals - unspecified number of expected layoffs
· BigLots - unspecified number of expected layoffs
· AK Steel - unspecified number of expected layoffs
· Waterford/Wedgewood - unspecified number of layoffs