[op00to]

This - I worked at a place that paid bonus quarterly and firings while rare seemed to happen just before the quarter end.

Now we are paid bonus yearly and I see firings in December. I think it does align to expenditures like bonus, for sure.

[hotpotamus]

I guess I didn't get dicked too hard in my mid December layoff (a couple years back); they gave me a pro-rated yearly bonus so I only lost like 2 weeks of it. The severance wasn't too bad either so all in all I took my money and shut up like they wanted me to. As I say in all these comments, I just wish that healthcare access wasn't tied to an employer - that seems like the cruelest aspect of modern America. Get too sick to work (and I have a condition that I live with), and you can't get healthcare any more.

[op00to]

Certainly one of the the cruelest aspects. But there's so many.