More than 55,000 Americans lost their jobs Monday, with companies such as Caterpillar, Sprint, and Home Depot each laying off several thousand workers. What do you think?

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  Is that the last of the jobs? I'm getting really tired of having to hear about layoffs all the time.

  Sher Chamberlain
  Unemployed

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  Wait, people work at Home Depot? I've always just gone there, picked out what I needed, then bought it at the self-serve register. Are you sure you have the company name right?

  Brad Scharff
  Systems Analyst

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  As a Sprint customer service rep, I react to the news with a mixture of passive-aggression and moderate contempt just short of outright rudeness, sir.

  Travis Brooks
  Customer Service Representative