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f you have ever been laid off at a job, you probably felt like you took a sucker punch to the head - you never saw it coming.
down like that, so we figured out there was something that could be done about it.”
Though both are only 19 years old, cousins Jacob Goldman and Noah Schwartz feel your pain.
Earlier this year, the two college students unveiled Layoff Lookout, a free service that provides early email alerts concerning company layoffs.
“We heard stories of people who worked for their companies for decades, [and] they find out they’re fired because they can’t sign in to their work computer,” says company co-founder and Ballston Lake resident Goldman. “We thought that was so wrong, so unethical, to turn someone’s life upside
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So, they did.
“If you knew you were going to lose your job in two months, would you have gone on vacation?” says Goldman, soon to begin his sophomore year at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla. “You wouldn’t go out to dinner as often, and then that also gives you at least a two-month head start on your job search. So
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