And they say we're not in a recession when their are layoffs of 100 or more employees at 4 different stores in the OC alone. You also have the President of a retailer Quicksilver who is getting a severance of 2 million plus a 60,000 a month retainer for 6 months and then another 100,000 for another 6 months on a consulting basis. This is the same President who had the company quadruple in size in reference to staffing. It that doesn't outrage you as an individual then there is something terribly wrong. I'm sure those 270 people who will be getting laid off will be quite irate once they find out how much the guy who is the cause of the problem is getting to go away.