[mitchntx]

Just curious how many have scaled back, scaled back considerably or outright had to park your car because of the economy?

And along with that, how many have done any of the above, not based on actual events, but fear of something happening that would make curtailing your "fix" inevitable?

For me, my regional race schedule hasn't changed, but the TnT days and out of region events have been scratched. And not because of being laid off or anything, just burying my coffee cans in the backyard in case I do.

If I didn't have a great group of sponsors and wasn't able to trade instructing for registration, then the story would probably be differnet.

[rpoz-29]

I work at DuPont's Spruance Plant just south of Richmond. We announced that up to 400, (I think), people would be let go. 150 from management, the rest from clerks, maint, operations. With 35 years service, I'm safe. They offered a retirement incentive to keep down the number laid off. A years pay, and you can defer your retirement for another year. The company wants maint to cross crafts to make us "leaner". I'm all for it, but I'm not sure how many jobs we'll actually save by doing it. Maint will get a five percent raise out of the deal, but I can see twenty five percent more work. I think we'll accept it, although we will vote on it. We have so many signed up for retirement now, (think angry villagers at the castle walls), that if it all goes through, we will have to bring a group of trainees to maint, and probably not lay off any hourly workers. It sucks for the management types though. Some have less than a year at the site, just moved their families here etc. The company is trying to find them jobs within DuPont, and things have started to pick up a little bit.