It's ugly all right..

I do know that the law requires in Quebec that 2-week notice or a severance package when somebody is fired/laid off, except when that person has been involved in a breach of employment contract. Isn't there such regulation in the USA?

But yhea, getting fired is bad all around, even with the severance package. I think the killing that have been reported provoked a domino effect (somebody who is on the verge of doing it is thinking that at least, he won't be alone to do it). But it seems to me that there is a rise all around of those suicidal killing. Not necessarely a shootout, but also the case of husband wanting to kill wife & kids, etc...

In Quebec, it's on the rise, but it's obviously not reported on the international news. Have you noticed a rise of such violence in the past week?

I haven't heard of any but I did read in today's paper that Cosco has refrained from letting anyone go choosing instead to cut eleswhere saving jobs in the process.  They should be applauded.  Looks like nobody getting shot at Cosco. 

Yes, today there was news that a woman killed her 20 year old son at a gun range.  She went up to him and shot him point blank right in the back of the head, then put the gun in her mouth and shot herself.   Have no idea the motive. 

It's totally bizarre in my mind but also totally reminds me of end time predictions.  I'm really starting to think we're on the verge or something right now. 

oh most definitely. 

I've been bothered lately by just how people are getting fired.

At my husband's office yesterday, they had an all employee meeting to announce a recycling initiative as a cost-cutting strategy.  And the meeting ended with the boss tossing out the comment that 20 more people would be facing layoffs--not who, just that it was going to happen.  Talk about the ultimate in recyling, eh? 

This is typical of the uncaring way most major corporations are dealing with the current situation.  Somewhere along the way the fact that employees are people stopped being a priority in comparison to the investors being the people who matter.

I call foul...

so everyone goes home with heartburn and stress.  Great.  Then when the time comes, they give the 20 the boot by telling them they're done the day they show up.  It's just not decent. 

Everyone's on pins and needles.  No wonder people are going off half cocked.  It's inhumane the way the employees are being treated and when they act like animals in a rage they wonder why. 

I noticed a rise of actions of the like in France, for example. They have had a rash of people kidnapping their bosses, holding them hostage, etc... No one had been killed (I think), nor has the bosses been harmed...

It's just.. political/social posturing. I think I am somewhat relieved that they seemed to blow off steam by attacking the bosses rather than their family.

*sigh*, I don't see a sign about the end of the world, however. But we are going into a depression (not only economical, but social also). In Quebec, there has been a recent crackdown on municipal corruption in the past days, which may either worsen the situation, or was provoked by it.

have you seen, in the past.. oh... 3 months, a rise in corruption-related stories that have been blown up on the local level? ('cause we all know about the one that makes national/international news)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPnMbLr5nc

I think it is a sad state of things when the reaction has become "Oh shit, not again?"

These... problems. These harsh actions, these killings are one of the main reasons why I think guns shouldn't be made easily available to the population. Too many deaths made by overly emotional people

I think it very well could be.  I'm not about to discount it, that it could be.  There are the types of signs to be watching for.  This type of thing would fit into an end time scenerio from a Christian POV.  We were told that in the end times visions and prophesying would increase.  I would imagine that would be coming from both sides of the spectum good and evil.  Sort of like this woman killing her son.  She thought she was the AC and wanted to send him to heaven and herself to hell. 

Christ himself said, before the end would come there would be a time of labor pains......meaning that even tho the time isn't yet, you'd know it would be soon coming by the intensity of the birth pains just like before a woman is delivered of them.  Children will be against parents and parents their children.  This is abnormal to be killing your own offspring like this.  There's been a rash of these sorts of things happening on a daily basis now. 

We were also told that good would become evil and evil would become good.  Seeing that quite a bit lately as well.  Not to mention many other bizarre things in nature. The Apostle Paul writing in the first Century said the earth is groaning as a result of the sin it's carrying.  It was never supposed to be like this. 

I was just thinking about the young man who killed his two sisters with a knife wounding a third one and decapitating one of them.  What about knives?  I would say he was quite emotional.  From what I understand no one has any idea what happened to this young man.  He had a great relationship with his sisters before this.  

Taking guns away isn't really the answer. 

But there are so many moment in history where everything was gloomy and doomy. We cannot come around and declare the end of the world just because our times are more difficult than 5 years ago. Or 50 years ago. I think it's over-reaction provoke by religious belief.

Knives are also bad, but they have a utility (except switchblades), where guns can only harm and kill people. Less gun is not "the" answer, obviously, but I still think it would help. 90% of the people killed/injured with a gun possessed at a family house is a member of the family or an innocent victim. It would help.

Yes there have been very many gloomy moments in history.  I agree.  But there are certain signs to watch for and the most important sign of all was that nothing would happen before Israel came into their own country. It all centers around Israel.  In 1948 that became a reality after many had written the Jews off for centuries. 

There is a reason why so many of us have been watchful over the years.  We've been told what signs to watch for and from what I can see, and many others as well, the signs are all around us.  It's now just a matter of intensity as things continue to heat up as we draw closer to the end of the age. 

Christ said "while the fig tree (Israel) is still tender." 

They are a very young country still.  It's just a matter of when God says...."enough; the time is ripe."  Only then will the angels harvest the earth as predicted.