new corporate rule: won't say how many axed

[NC5P]

The new year brought a new corporate policy: The now more than monthly layoffs are announced without the familiar "body counts". They refuse to tell us just how many people were laid off today. Evidently this is some sort of sick corporate joke. Of course, we went around and saw who wasn't in their cubical.

The emails to all on a company meeting scheduled in late morning, sent 15 minutes before it starts are all too familiar. I really don't know why they even bother since they will not answer any questions. It was different this time, they laid off on a Tuesday. Before it was always Mondays.

[N7RJD]

Yet that guy sitting in the break room crunching his cereal is still there even though they have tired to fire him many times.

[KG4CGC]

Yet that guy sitting in the break room crunching his cereal is still there even though they have tired to fire him many times.

Too funny! I LORFD!

[N7RJD]

I LORFD!

You may want to see a doctor about that.

[AF6LJ]

We are in some fairly bad times.
I usually find it not too hard to get part time work of one sort or another.
(I can do a lot just not what I was trained for anymore)

I looked for part time work back in early 2007 after returning from San Antonio (because work was slowing down there) I gave up after six months. Given the climate I don't expect to find any work until 2010 or later.

:(:(

[WB3JLA]

Yet that guy sitting in the break room crunching his cereal is still there even though they have tired to fire him many times.

remember the joke about who the boss who had to let one person go.
Mary or Jack

I would tell it but it would be my last post

[WA6MHZ]

We are pacing the floor on how long my WIFE has before she gets laid off. As an Electronic Assembler, her job is obsolete already. Almost all of that work has been outsourced to Taiwan and China where workers are happy to work for a $1 a day and a bowl of rice. So, at her company, more and more and more employees are shown the door each week. And the remaining ones have to take big pay cuts Each day she comes home and doesn't say she got laid off is a relief. Without her income, our family is TOAST!!!!!! As I mentioned, we are already upside down on bills. We pay more out each month than we earn. With the loss of her income, we will be bankrupt!!! And my job is as secure as a Bomb Defuser.

So, Layoffs are a reality and may hit home hard any day now.

We are both retirement age, and thus, unemployable. No one wants to hire someone who they will worry about living through the day!!! The only jobs SENIORS can get is Wallmart Greeters, and there are DECADES LONG waiting lists for those.

So I pace the floor every night wondering what we will do if these Layoffs come. WHERE will we get the money to pay the bills? Will our cars and house get repossesed?

Will we be living out of my P.O.S 96 Town Car on the Mean Streets of El Cajon?, Eating out of dumpsters or stealing for food? It CAN happen and that day is getting closer every moment.

No jobs for the Elderly, it really SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

[WB3JLA]

So,
No jobs for the Elderly, it really SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

You are wrong
Employers want older people
You will come to work on time every day
You don't have to take off because you kids are sick
And now that you are over 18 you really do know it all

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[KC2UGV]

We are pacing the floor on how long my WIFE has before she gets laid off. As an Electronic Assembler, her job is obsolete already. Almost all of that work has been outsourced to Taiwan and China where workers are happy to work for a $1 a day and a bowl of rice. So, at her company, more and more and more employees are shown the door each week. And the remaining ones have to take big pay cuts Each day she comes home and doesn't say she got laid off is a relief. Without her income, our family is TOAST!!!!!! As I mentioned, we are already upside down on bills. We pay more out each month than we earn. With the loss of her income, we will be bankrupt!!! And my job is as secure as a Bomb Defuser.

So, Layoffs are a reality and may hit home hard any day now.

We are both retirement age, and thus, unemployable. No one wants to hire someone who they will worry about living through the day!!! The only jobs SENIORS can get is Wallmart Greeters, and there are DECADES LONG waiting lists for those.

So I pace the floor every night wondering what we will do if these Layoffs come. WHERE will we get the money to pay the bills? Will our cars and house get repossesed?

Will we be living out of my P.O.S 96 Town Car on the Mean Streets of El Cajon?, Eating out of dumpsters or stealing for food? It CAN happen and that day is getting closer every moment.

No jobs for the Elderly, it really SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

Best time to look for a job is when you still have a job.

A company I was at was "absorbed" into it's parent. My boss' worked in Chicago. Almost monthly one person not in Chicago was let go. I knew I was secure (Difficult at best to find a Sr. Linux Admin, especially in Chicago, working at my pay); but I had no desire to stay in a company where everyone was concerned as to when the axe would come.

I started looking, and within 3 months had a new job. Same pay (First time I didn't get a pay raise when I got a new job), but more enjoyable. And because it's an international services company, I have no worries about the axe. Not a single person laid off in my department (IS&T) since this whole economic quake.

The jobs are out there. It just takes a looking for them. Maybe even some re-education to get into a new field.

Ie, electronics assembly is getting very outsourced indeed, however it translates very well to on site support consultant for IBM, with not too much re-training required. Or, on site support for EMC. Paid training, and they want people who are highly dependable (Read older people, not liable to go out and get drunk on a Monday).