In my clique (going to use that word more often) we have already had one friend loose a job, I suspect however that many companies are being proactive in letting allot of staff go. Everyone has been predicting this and that, a few things have been said and now companies are crapping themselves.

They sit in their board rooms and discuss ‘company X has let 150 staff go we better do the same’, ‘good idea’ says board member A, ‘but lets not affect our company bonus!’ ‘Don’t talk bull shite’ Bill says board member B, ‘of course not’,’ i’ve promised my wife new boobs this year!.’

Vodafone have announced that they are letting 150 staff go, due to a down turn in the profits per person (or some business phrase like that). If things are so bad, why did they recently buy a land-line company? Why did they expand into the home and broadband section, surely they need MORE and not less staff?

Ireland has pulled it’s self out of worse situations in the past, so lets try to enjoy the Christmas, and worry later. Lets put all this recession shiite under the bed. Suppose that’s easy to say if you have not yet been affected…

And kind of unrelated to recession banter, but I want to end on a different note for this post.

Denny – You know the pork company, who usually looks forward to Christmas sales, was worried for a while about the recent fiasco in the poke market, but we are safe now (apparently). I loved that they opened a stall (you know the type of ones you see on the street when you’ve been on a piss and fancy a munch) on Grafton street yesterday for hungry shoppers giving out free pork products. Genius! And I have to say there was a big queue, Irish people love their Oink Oinks!

EIRCOM announced yesterday that it would finally take the plunge into the world of 3G.It has decided to buy the country’s last 3G mobile licence for its fast growing Meteor unit.

The licence comes with a price tag of EUR114m and had initially been offered to troubled Smart Telecom.

3G, the third generation of wireless technology, has enhanced video and voice capabilities and led to better roaming, among other innovations.