Groton –– Facing a dearth of submarine contracts and a decline in maintenance and repair work, the Electric Boat shipyard said Tuesday that it would eliminate up to 20 percent of its work force by the end of next year, affecting as many as 2,400 employees across the board –– from its salaried employees to its designers and shipyard workers.

2,400 = THOUSANDS, not "Hundreds".

As usual, Electric Boat would like to wish each and every employee a very merry Christmas, a happy New Year, and a big, giant FUCK YOU to the Southeastern Connecticut economy, and a very special thank you to all the people that rallied to save the subase... through your efforts we were able to effectively remove subase NLON from the BRAC list, and now we're going to celebrate by effectively removing EB from operations.

Two more articles in case you're interested:
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=91400387-1BAB-4EB3-981E-125DD3EFFF27
and
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=B0DEBFBA-B9F4-4065-BE5F-7BEA53AD87B1

This started about a month ago, with the president telling us that the layoffs would affect mostly design, about 150-200 people in the MDA (which I am a part of). Now it's moved on to 2,400 in all areas of the company.

There's always Foxwoods, as the first article is happy to point out. Anyone up for teaching me to deal Blackjack?