America's Financial Meltdown: How has it affected your life?

Yeargh. Old thread bump.

I work for FedEx Office, which used to be FedEx Kinkos. At the beginning, there was no real effect on the amount of business we get. People came in, needed their 30 million copies or books, etc. My shift was known for doing all the work for orders taken during the day, or finishing up things.

In the last few months, the third shift has gone from the powerhouse of production to the babysitting shift. I literally, just sit here and make sure we're available JUST IN CASE someone needs some stuff printed. I'd say about once a month we actually get someone who needs a ton of stuff printed/bound/etc, but even then it's nothing that would take longer than an hour to complete. For the most part, it's just people coming in to rent the PCs, or make a few copies and leave. So, I get the fun job of surfing the interweb for 10 hours a night. Not necessarily a bad job, since I get paid to do what I do at home, but it's very boring.

I'd never planned on staying in this job this long, since it was crap when I got it, but with no one hiring elsewhere, I'm basically stuck here since FedEx Office isn't firing anyone. So, it's at least nice to know I still have a job at the end of the day. I'm still casually browsing around for graphic design jobs, but there's always the chance of getting such a job, then the company falling apart--leaving me with nothing. While FedEx Office isn't firing people, they sure as fuck wouldn't hire me back either at this point and time. So, the plan is to stay here and hope for some chances to move to a different division of the company. One that actually does work...

Jam it back in, in the dark.