her fiancÃ © to refocus , relocate and start a new life . Within a few weeks , they both found jobs near Phoenix , Arizona , earning close to what they were making in New York . They bought a home and two new cars and got married . But the good feelings suddenly and dramatically ended in October when Metzger , who was four months pregnant , showed up to work at Lumension , where she was a marketing manager . Metzger says she was called into the office , and it happened again . She was laid off from her second job in less than a year . Watch Linda talk about getting laid off Â '' `` I was so overwhelmed and so shocked that I just immediately burst into tears . '' She thought about how she and her new husband , who had just moved across the country , were going to be able to afford their new life and all the bills that came with it . A week later , Chris Metzger was called into his manager 's office at the job placement agency where he worked . He was told that
PHOENIX , Arizona -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- It was supposed to be just another day at work . Job losses suffered by Linda and Chris Metzger have had a ripple effect on other businesses in their community In early March 2008 , 31-year-old Linda Metzger went to the New York office where she had worked as an assistant vice president in the marketing department at Lehman Brothers for about a year . Only 15 minutes into her work day , Metzger was called into her manager 's office , where a representative from human resources was waiting . `` They told me that the company was having economic difficulties and that they had to make budget cuts , '' Metzger said . `` They were afraid that they were going to have to let me go and that it was not due to performance . '' Metzger says that would be her last day at Lehman Brothers . She was given some time to collect her composure , gather her belongings and head home . She was out of a $ 90,000-a-year job and was getting married in three months . Metzger says it was a chance for her and