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Geekbabe

Geekbabe

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My company just did a massive consolidation of services,cut backs and restructuring.

I will have to get some cross training but I still have a job !
 
Originally posted by: Quintox
I thought you lived off of your prize earnings....hm shows how much I know.
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Contest entering is my hobby. I do work in a professional capacity as well.
 
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: Quintox
I thought you lived off of your prize earnings....hm shows how much I know.
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Contest entering is my hobby. I do work in a professional capacity as well.
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I knows it was a joke!
 
Originally posted by: Quintox
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: Quintox
I thought you lived off of your prize earnings....hm shows how much I know.
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Contest entering is my hobby. I do work in a professional capacity as well.
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I knows it was a joke!
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Lol, I've been waiting to hear my fate since christmas week,my humor meter is
not working really well right now.
 
/waves upraised hand vigorously. Yet I still interview people right out of school with no experience who don't seem to realize it's damn competitive out there.

Real statements from candidates during interviews in the last few months:
"I heard you have flextime. What's the latest that I can come in to work?"
"Would it take more than a year to get promoted?"
"You said the best way to learn this business quickly is to travel to customer sites. If I don't want to travel, would that put me at a disadvantage relative to other candidates?"
And my favorite, "Are you strict about attendance?"

Glad you weren't affected, Geekbabe.
 
glad I'm still employeed... of course, merit raises have been cut back and we're under a hiring freeze despite 2 people getting fired, which ends up meaning that I'm going to have to work weekends because we're so short staffed.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
/waves upraised hand vigorously. Yet I still interview people right out of school with no experience who don't seem to realize it's damn competitive out there.

Real statements from candidates during interviews in the last few months:
"I heard you have flextime. What's the latest that I can come in to work?"
"Would it take more than a year to get promoted?"
"You said the best way to learn this business quickly is to travel to customer sites. If I don't want to travel, would that put me at a disadvantage relative to other candidates?"
And my favorite, "Are you strict about attendance?"

Glad you weren't affected, Geekbabe.
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It's not just young people Kranky, my company took it's 1st action on Xmas eve
40 people furloughed/collecting awaiting final word as to their fate. A small group
of us clinging to the life boat going to work each day... some of us pissing,moaning
and complaining about changes and in general making the situation even more unpleasant.

I had to flat out tell one co-worker that they could easily lay us off and bring in 26 yr olds with advanced degrees for 1/3 less than what we're earning and that I was grateful to still be working and can/will adapt and do so cheerfully.

I will say one thing, I'm motivated now to either return to school or to try to start my own gig on the side.
 
I'm not presently employed at a normal job, but it's a paid internship. The owner of the company does seem like he might be willing to keep me with the company. I think I got an impromptu interview on Wednesday. 🙂


 
im working part time while im at school, but my time has been cut at a couple of places. still, im glad i have the hours i have, id be fucked if i didnt
 
Very glad to still be employed. No more 401K matching (effective 4% pay cut), salary freezes for 2009, and just announced today that my entire company is up for sale. But I am still employed.

:thumbsup:

Viper GTS
 
Every job that I interviewed at and got denied ended up laying off people....My job says we are not laying off people and that we have enough work for the next 2 years. I am very grateful. Might not be my dream job, but I have a job.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
I'm not presently employed at a normal job, but it's a paid internship. The owner of the company does seem like he might be willing to keep me with the company. I think I got an impromptu interview on Wednesday. 🙂
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Did you swallow?

😉

 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: loki8481
because we're so short staffed.
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Admitting you're "short staffed" on teh internets is quite brave! 😛
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Making a post that indicates that one's thoughts wandered, however briefly
to loki8481's ding a ling is even braver :laugh:
 
Still employed, actually it would be darn near impossible to lay any of us off. As long as they don't institute a hiring freeze I should be getting promoted in the next couple of months. Of course merit raise is out, they took it last year. Hopefully we will still get cost of living, which has been raised 5.7% this year.
 
Still employed, got our 401k match for last year (25% bonus match on total contributed). But haven't heard a word about even cost-of-living raises for this year.

Got this job two years ago. One year later almost went back to my previous employer but worked out issues & kept this job. Now they're (previous employer) on reduced hours & deeply in the red. Glad I didn't make that jump back.
 
I'm thrilled that I'm still employed. :thumbsup: The layoffs at my former company were pretty demoralizing, and I'd hate to be the guy who took over my job after I quit and the only other remaining developer on my team was laid off a week later. :Q I had already absorbed the work of 3 people, and that last guy's job was not something I wanted to be doing.

Originally posted by: kranky
/waves upraised hand vigorously. Yet I still interview people right out of school with no experience who don't seem to realize it's damn competitive out there.

Real statements from candidates during interviews in the last few months:
"I heard you have flextime. What's the latest that I can come in to work?"
"Would it take more than a year to get promoted?"
"You said the best way to learn this business quickly is to travel to customer sites. If I don't want to travel, would that put me at a disadvantage relative to other candidates?"
And my favorite, "Are you strict about attendance?"

Glad you weren't affected, Geekbabe.
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Flextime is bad for me. When I had to wake up at 5:30 and drive 90 minutes to be at work by 7:30, I had no problem doing it. In my current job I'm more or less expected to be working by 8:30, and I have no problem doing it. In between I worked for a company that didn't care when I got to work, and the mental barrier to getting out of bed was much higher because I knew I didn't have to.

<--- Night owl.
I still usually go to bed at 1:30-2:00, I just sleep less
 
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