Back in January, I along with a few coworkers, were all laid off.   A few weeks later I got a call from one of those co-workers.  He was BEGGING me to find him some leads to get work.  Evidently, his wife got laid off the following few days after he did so they were BOTH unemployed.    I ended up helping this guy find a job going so far as to give him a glowing recommendation to the potential employer.

He ended up getting the job and through a quirk of consolidation, he ended getting a promotion a couple of months after that and I hadn’t heard from him for a while until some mutual acquaintances informed me that he had gone out and purchased a new Mercedes vehicle.   I don’t know the make or model of the car but I just shrugged my head.   Just a few months ago this guy was begging for work, he got lucky and landed a good position but he’s acting like the economy isn’t in shambles.

This guy has young kids that he still (presumably) needs to put through college and was very nervous about being unemployed so I know he doesn’t have a huge volume of cash lying around to buy cars.  I just don’t get it, this guy had spoken to me about a year ago about how he JUST HAD TO HAVE a luxury car and I advised him to wait until the economy stabilized (this was back in Fall of 2008) before he made any moves like this but he must feel its stabilized enough for him to take the plunge and buy the car.

Oddly enough, my wife knows people at his new company and they’ve been laying off people!  When I asked him about the layoffs he said they were “low level” people that they didn’t need.   Lol!   He may end up becoming “unneeded” soon enough because his new company’s success is predicated largely on that “infrastructure” money that doesn’t seem to be moving anywhere out of Washington D.C.

Well if he loses his job, I’m going to recommend he go work for a Mercedes dealership so he can meet other dolts just like him.