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About 3,000 Microsofties, including many from Western Washington were notified this a.m. that they received the pink screen of death slip. In the memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer he said, "With this announcement, we are mostly but not all done with the planned 5,000 job eliminations by June 2010." Not sure what's worse, getting the pink slip today (tequila anyone?) or knowing you could be next. This is the second mass lay-off for the company since January.

First, check your smoke detector. The Bellevue woman who died in last night's fire had her smoke detector battery in backwards. Next, check with your supervisor: Boeing workers get their pink slips today. That's another 1,100 people who won't be working or shopping much, exacerbating Washington State's projected $8 billion budget shortfall. Check your credit limit, too. Do you really think it' a good idea to be buy all that new Ken Griffey merch?

Adobe pink slips started arriving this afternoon, says the Unofficial Apple Weblog. Back in mid-November Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said, "People call this a financial crisis a lot more on the East Coast, but Silicon Valley will emerge stronger and cash flow is not a challenge for us. We have a very strong balance sheet and very deep franchises." So far the Twitter "Black Wednesday" reports are out of California; anyone have news on how this has hit Fremont?