Economic Crisis:The Bloody Layoffs

金融危机之血腥的裁员
Economic Crisis:The Bloody Layoff
By Reta

金融危机来袭，重创世界经济。
A huge crisis came and hit the globe economy.
我收集了一些很"血腥"的词,关于裁员的,与你们分享。
And I've collected some "bloody" words about layoffs to share with you.

• file for unemployment benefits
• jobless claim
  eg.A jump in jobless claim.
• slash
  eg.Microsoft annouced that it's slashing up to 5000 jobs.
• shut
  eg.Caterpillar Inc. is shutting 5000 jobs.
• cut n.&v.
  eg1.More job cuts have also been annouced.
  eg2.Texas instruments annouced it's cutting 3400 jobs.
• eliminate
  eg.U.S. Corning is gonna eliminate about 3500 workers.
• loss
  eg.a loss of 51 million jobs
• axe//the most bloody one,i think..
  eg.Panasonics says it's axing 15000 staffes.
• reduce
  eg.Intel will reduce the number of managers.