Lay offs at my company today

[Argo]

A bunch of friends got laid off. Man, this sucks. Never had to go through anything like that before.

 

[amdskip]

Where do you work?

 

[Atrail]

What kind of work do you do industry wise?

 

[Argo]

software development

 

[Eli]

It sucks, I know..

Before I was laid off, a few of my friends had to leave as well...

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: Argo
A bunch of friends got laid off. Man, this sucks. Never had to go through anything like that before.

I found out last week I was being laid off later this year....

Sucks to be us!

 

[mithrandir2001]

I've been through rounds of layoffs of co-workers and have been laid-off myself. It does really suck, especially when the cuts are all staff and no management. Great for morale.

Layoffs are part of the free labor market and can be healthy for the economy. It's just the way that many layoff plans are executed that really hurts.

 

[AU Tiger]

I have been on the bench (non-billable) at my company for the past four weeks. Getting paid to study and do various small projects around the office. I've been looking for jobs here and there, but the manager has no plans of letting me go yet and said that I shouldn't be worried. The paranoia has set in and I am wondering when my day will come.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: AU Tiger
I have been on the bench (non-billable) at my company for the past four weeks. Getting paid to study and do various small projects around the office. I've been looking for jobs here and there, but the manager has no plans of letting me go yet and said that I shouldn't be worried. The paranoia has set in and I am wondering when my day will come.

same here but for a lot longer.. i am taking time to go to school full time...

but now the bills are piling up i need a job.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Same here, not where I work (dont work), but where my dad USED to (out of job for a few months now) and my mom USED to. (Just layed off, last day tommorow)

 

[Stifko]

Man, I am so glad that I am working now. I was unemployed for a while before. You will find something, the market will loosen up soon.

 

[T2T III]

It does really suck, especially when the cuts are all staff and no management. Great for morale.

Over the past ump-teen years, I've made it through about 10 cuts. At each of the cuts, friends and co-workers were let go, but I always survived - except this past one. However, I couldn't be happier. Yes, management will usually see to it that they keep their positions - and they usually do. But, I'm not crying this time around - I received about 10 months of severance pay and I'm able to collect unemployment for the next 6 months. Additionally, I pulled up my profile at Salary.Com and people with the same skills (and less experience than myself) are pulling in $20K more a year than I was making for the area that I'm in.

Oh, once I get fully established in a new company, I can't wait to see the old scumbag managers that worked in my old group show up at the door. I'll gladly give them a personal reference. NOT!