Good morning! In the midst of recovering from the Dow's freakoutpanicmeltdown ( This recession is already deeper than the 2001 downturn, intones today's Times), we have another round of layoff... horror stories. There's a classic banking fuckup that almost ended in a trading floor riot, a post-9/11 husband-and-wife double-whammy, and a person who has been downsized three times in eleven months. In other words, Last year's [company] holiday card required the removal of 13; this year it's 15. (As always, if you have a layoff story, send it to tips@gawker.com) Laid off 3 times in a year: Y...

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