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Smokin'Tone

I just might be your huckleberry
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Heh heh heh

Since I'm feeling pretty lousy today, raining, had to let go 2 of my people, then got laid off myself, I figured I'd start a thread on layoffs. What's your story? How'd it happen? Whyd it happen? Let's try not to name names, or companies. Unfortunately, y'all know who I worked for, but I actually liked my job.

Anyway, here's how it went down today....

10a: got the call from my boss
10.05a: Went into bosses office with HR person. Got the news on having to let my techs go

11a: After much whining and sweet talking, could not come to an agreement to keep us on.

noon: Called my techs into the office. Broke news. Female member broke down. Felt like crap. She only just found out she was preg with her first. Hard to not break down myself. Male member just stared into space. He's been there 5 years. Had them sign releases, etc. Last check, etc. No bene's, nothing. Just a week severence.

1p: Clean out my desk
1.30: Told my techs to meet me downstairs.

2p: Took techs to lunch, tried to keep things light. Very hard. Exchanged numbers, email addy, etc... Left

Ya know, I've been through a lot of layoffs, but this one hurt. We all were a damn good team, our boss was the best I've ever worked with. I'm going to be ok, I've got savings, and the other gigs to work on, but I'm concerned for my co-workers. In this environment, I think they'll be on unemployment for a long while. Pretty sad day.

So that's my story. I'm about to light up a Hoyo 75th ani.
 
Wow Tony :(

Sorry to hear about your day and losing your job. Stiff upper lip and all that. Hope your commrads fare well.

No layoffs on my end. But I did walk out on Sprint after 9 years with em sometime ago. I had developed IT skills, and wanted to transfer to the IT department so they could pay me for what I was doing. They wouldn't, so I walked and have never looked back.
 
Dude, sorry to hear it. It must have felt horible having to let your people go. I think I would rather get the axe myself than have to use it on someone else. But to get both in one day, geeze, I will keep you in my thoughts my friend.

I have never actually been laid off, bene fired a time or two for being stupid. I had to leave a job I loved when I hurt my back, Dr said I had to learn to use my brain, cause I was through using my back, yada yada. My last job I got fired cause the HR lady said I had a bad attitude, something about my temper (they had just accidentally canceled my daughters insurance, for the third time). Been close to a lay off where I am now, but I keep sqeakin by em. (knocking on wood)
 
It sux Tony...what else can you say?

I've been on both sides of the axe and let me tell you the handle feels a lot worse than the blade. I've never seen both on the same day, though. Gotta be rough. Let me know if I can help, k? Hang in there.
 
??? not much I can say ??? really hard esp when not expecting it. Very sorry.
 
Sorry to hear the bad news Tony. Put the word out your available and some thing will turn up.



If all else fails you can always start a beetle farm :p





Wascal
 
Fellas, fellas, fellas...

Thanks for the kind words and support. You guys are too much :)

But how about some of your lay off stories? Ya see, it's kind of a big thing here on the East Coast to have layoff parties and such, I think it started in Silicon Valley, but it's just a bunch of people that got together and swapped stories, made contacts, etc. So I figured, what the hell, how bout trying to put together a little support group right here? All you guys (and lady) are pretty damn supportive, and I know I'm not the only one that got let go recently.

So if, and this is only IF, your comfortable about it, post up.

No flamage on the company tho, don't want to turn this into f'dcompany.com land or anything like that. We don't need any slander suits flying around
 
Wascal said:
Sorry to hear the bad news Tony. Put the word out your available and some thing will turn up.



If all else fails you can always start a beetle farm :p





Wascal
LOL, oh man Wascal, don't curse me like that hahahaaa.... I think I'd break down and cry if that happened. Having avoided them for years and to have them in a pass is more than enough I think :p

*making the 'warding off evil sign'*

:sign:
 
Well, Tony I was laid off on the first day of my first job after I got out of college. After I graduated from LSU I got a job with an office computer company called Basic Four Information Systems. Their head office and manufacturing plant was in Tustin, CA but they had a research lab in Houston. I wanted to try to stay close to my sweetie, who was still at LSU so Houston was the ticket. The day I reported to work a bunch of brass showed up from Tustin and announced that they were going to close the Houston Lab and move it to CA. In reality I wasn't laid off - they offered me a job in Tustin for the same salary. But the cost of living was so high there that there was no realistic way I could take the job for that amount of money. So in my mind it was the same thing as being laid off. Took me about a month and I found another job in Houston. But that was a tough month having no savings and no job. I didn't even have furniture yet so I sat on the floor, watched my tiny TV and waited for the phone to ring.
 
Tony,

Sorry to hear the bad news. Something good will come out of it though. Just hang in there and it will come. :)

I don't have a lay off story though. I've been pretty fortunate so far. (knockin' on wood).

Take care and hang in there!

SKYDIVNEKD :sign:
 
SKYDIVNEKD said:
Tony,

Sorry to hear the bad news. Something good will come out of it though. Just hang in there and it will come. :)

I don't have a lay off story though. I've been pretty fortunate so far. (knockin' on wood).

Take care and hang in there!

SKYDIVNEKD :sign:
damn floyd, anyone who regularly is willing to jump out of a plane deserves a job out of mere sympathy for his family LOL :sign:
 
I'm a software developer, so I get laid off fairly frequently; it's part of the job. A company staffs up for a big project, and then the project gets done and they're somehow surprised that they no longer have enough work to keep everybody busy.

I haven't yet been able to sufficiently anticipate it, though. Since I'm a software developer and therefore dangerous, I always get laid off suddenly: when I get out of the boss's office, I'm not allowed to go back to my desk, but security escorts me directly to the door, and I get the stuff from my office shipped to me in boxes.

(They're afraid that if I were disgruntled by the layoff, you see, I'd sabotage the software systems when I went back to my office.)

I've always thought that was a little silly and extreme. If I were that sort of person, there would already be a bomb in the software, and the trigger would be something I'd have to pull every two weeks or so or else it'd go off.
But I guess there's a book they have to follow, or something.

Recently my company had a round of layoffs that didn't get me, but should have, and I actually got angry. I had just transferred in from a different project, but they laid off a young Korean girl instead who was probably making less than half what I do, but had been working on the project already for two years and knew much more about it than I did. In addition, it'd be a lot harder for her to get another job than it would be for me. I made a stink and tried to see if I could get the decision reversed, but everyone was adamant. I thought about arranging to quit and having her hired to take my place, in exchange for her severance package, but there was a hiring freeze on, so that wouldn't have worked either.

Oh well...I'm sure they'll get me one of these days.
 
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