Re: NBC: Laid Off!
- From: "ross" <ross@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:13:42 +1000
Not the best feeling, but that the reality of capitalism. I worked 15 years
at one company, worked hard, achieved a lot, then new management took over,
and out the door we were marched this year. What was best about it all is I
walked away with the equivalent of two years salary in severance payments,
so I could afford to sit on my arse for a little while. With our caring
conservative government passing laws to help the poor businesses making huge
profits, big fat multimillion dollar severance payments will be for senior
executives only in future.
It's a jolt to your confidence. It tooks me a few months but I re entered
the rat race with a better paying and more interesting role despite at one
stage resigning myself to finding a job that was neither.
<rothenbergphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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GUlly,
I guess CONGRATS are in order here:) You write beautifully, by the
way.
MikinSoCal-hang in there. I lost a job once at a newspaper I was on
staff at. Staff photo jobs have always been hard to come by and when a
large company came and took over, the entire staff was let go with
basically no notice.I remember sharing grilled cheese sandwiches and a
diet coke with a fellow Bruce-nut at the time. BUT...it was the best
thing that ever happened to me. I loved that job-next to my freelance
career the past 6 years, it was the best job I ever had with the best
people I ever worked for and with but it taught me one thing: when one
door closes, another door DOES open up. It may take some time but it
does happen. Several months after this layoff, I was offered several
different staff positions and I can say I most likely would not be
where I am now in my career had that layoff never happened. It made me
take come chances and risks, and they paid off.
Hang in there. And spend that $100 on Bruce-it will make you feel
better.
Debbie
gully <gulliverfoy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now I don't want to act like this is any big deal personally or
financially, but I received notice in the mail yesterday that as of
December 31, my job is over.
As a couple of you know I am 60 years old, and retired. I just took
this job because it was going to be a few years until my wife retired.
And it isn't exactly inspiring to go to a maximum security prison
trying to get my students, all felons, to take their education
seriously. Of course, some of them will never get out of prison, so it
doesn't really matter that much.
I have worked steadily since August of 1969, always being employed,
primarily as some kind of teacher/counselor.
It is really kind of interesting feeling. I wasn't planning on working
much past next summer in any case, so this is not significant in any
way.
This rather exhilarating feeling will probably disappear if and when
my own job is offered to me. This odd situation is likely to occur
because all that has happened is that my employer, a community
college, lost the contract even though no one else bid against them.
Apparently the corrections department is planning on running the
school department themselves, and I am the most qualified/experienced
person now employed. Hell, I could get a promotion and raise. The only
result would be that I would become a state employee.
gully
That's very confusing. I am not sure whether to say congratulations or
, hey, that stinks!
--
no gorram clever sig.
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