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I pray that you aren't getting let go or if the company intends to, that you find a better paying, more fun job before they get the chance to.
All the best to you!
In November my company had a 10% layoff. Then again in another layoff in January of about 15%. We continue to lose people and have half of the work force we had just a few years ago is gone. Now today the Director who supervised the largest portion of the employees in the building got let go today. There were rumors last week something bad was about to happen last week and now I am trying to figure out if he was fired or layed off. Either way its bad I guess if he was fired there will probably be more layoffs if he quit maybe he knew something bad was coming or he did not want to do what ever the VP's were telling him. I think if anyone in my small department would be let go it would be me because I have been with company longer than any of them get paid a bit more and have the least experience at the current job I just got into.
I pray that you aren't getting let go or if the company intends to, that you find a better paying, more fun job before they get the chance to.
All the best to you!
Ugh…been there.
The waiting to know was the worst part. If you work for a good company they should already have your unemployment package set up for you and a nice severance payout that will help.
Oh and do yourself a favor and ignore rumors and office gossip. They will never help and are probably BS.
Exactly! Give you something to hold you over until you find something else. Hopefully that won't be the case though.
I pray no matter what, that everything will be alright. Just do your work and enjoy it.
As a precaution, formulating a plan is always a good idea.
I wouldn't worry, it never does any good. You seem like an intellegent person and from my expierence, intellegent people fair pretty well in our society.
Good Luck.
That's why I always make sure I'm underpaid.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Start getting your resume in order and if you have any networking contacts start throwing your name out there and making contact. If not, start looking for positions and contacts.
We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
Seriously though, listen to the real advice these other people are giving you.
Well, I found out that he did not quit he was let go. So I am guessing a layoff is coming friday. I got into the more te al side of the job about 6 months ago because none of them have been affected by layoffs and had more to do with my background. Well, if it does happen one good thing is I have been wanting to move back to the San Antonio area. I live just North of Austin and my family and wife's family all live around San Antonio. We come down every other week or so but we have been wanting to move back to San Antonio especially since her parents bought 50 acres in hill country and they said we could build on part of it. So I have been glancing at jobs I could get around San Antonio but only applied once but it was with the city and they seem to take a long time to get back to you. I was going to leave work early Friday to go to San Antonio and avoid the traffic but now I may stay and see what happens.
This sounds like a perfect chance for you to totally meltdown in public.
It's only Tuesday so you still have time. If you own any guns (or at least know someone with guns) got have your picture take with them. They can be on the wall, or on a table, or in your hands. The bigger the guns the better. Hang said pictures liberally around your workspace. At some point during the week mention that you're going on a hunting trip this weekend, so you'll have your guns loaded up and waiting for you when you go home on Friday. Then sit back and enjoy the benefits of lifetime employment. Or perhaps a company psych evaluation.
So when you wrote that did you think you had comedy gold on your hands?
Unfortunately, this seems to be happening to more and more people lately with the economy and all. I just hope your company treats you right. Someone I know- the company created bogus goals that could never be met by anyone so then they could fire them all one by one and give them nothing.
Good luck.
If it's happening at Dell, you know it's happening lots of places.
I was wondering how long it was going to take before Bush was blamed. And we have a loser, I mean a winner!!!!
That sucks if it's for real. One piece of advice...
Get a government job, because it takes an act of congress to fire you.
your redundancy package is income taxable hahahhahaa
I'm not worried about losing mine on Friday.
I lost mine Monday.
wth?
You know what goes good with a pink slip?
Doritos. Lots and lots of Doritos.
Seriously? Holy , Mike, I'm sorry to hear that. What the happened?I'm not worried about losing mine on Friday.
I lost mine Monday.
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