Shit, I'm so sorry to hear that, Del !
I've read posts you've made about your job, but I never put together what you do, exactly. What is your line of work?
You certainly have my sympathy. I suspect if you did not see it coming it must have been one heck of a shock. There are lots of us in the same position and it sucks. I hope you have luck in your job hunt. :)
What a GDBOAUS!! >:( :-\
I sure am sorry to hear this Del. Let's blame it all on that crappy Amtrak trip!! >:(
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I'm so sorry, Del--
it seems selfish, but it this community's tragic loss if you have to go offline--
I know your intelligence, wry humor and resilience will prevail over your (hopefully brief) problems (shortsighted lawyers: feh!)
Good Luck!
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Unfortunately the pain you are feeling is shared by too many these days, and I am sorry that you have lost your job.
Fortunately though, you only have yourself to worry about.
Imagine how it feels to someone with a family when this happens, and they cannot pay school expenses, and have difficulty buying clothes and even food for their kids, let alone keep up with mortgage payments to keep a roof over their heads. One day everything is going along OK, then whamo, something out of their control changes everything.
It is a very sad state of affairs.
after nearly 12 years at the salt mines (I thought slaves had to be sold.) :P
Have become a casualty of the bad economic times and stupid upper management.
I am a statistic.
I will likely be disconnecting my internet services in a few weeks, so FYI in case I disappear.
Del
Talk about perspective.
A friend who is currently chief operating officer at his small company bought a new house about a year ago. His no-account younger son (who is over 18) lives with him. He bought a bigger than required house, planning for the time his mother becomes too ill to live on her own so she can come live with him.
He was very upset about the downswing in the economy. His retirement was basically destroyed, so he really couldn't plan on ever retiring anymore. So he decided to buckle down and rebuild his finances.
Then about 3 weeks ago, he came down with a pinched nerve in his lower back. He also has high BP and is medically controlling his cholesteral levels. Now he is in severe pain, is on crutches, it is agony for him to sit or stand or lay for any amount of time. My parents both went through the same condition and it's no picnic.
He is currently getting injections for the pain and his doctor recommended the newest surgery. It's dangerous surgery, but I encouraged him to get it. No point in living with such pain.
Then yesterday, when he e-mailed to check in with me, I found out that he strongly suspects that his boss is trying to push him out. A lot of his duties are starting to be removed and delegated out to others, that sort of thing. He had helped his boss build up that company, and now he's considered a liability due to the amount of his paycheck and - probably - his health issues.
Talk about taking a serious hit should he be laid off what with his house note, truck note and son depending on him. And I, at least, still have my health. He doesn't and has serious health problems. I urged him to get the operation quick before he got laid off so their insurance could pay for it. My bosses laid me off just as the open enrollment period was ending for my health insurance
i.e. they cut me loose at the end of my insurance coverage period so I have no health coverage and will have to find my own.
His situation really put things in perspective for me. :-\
Oh dear Del, that is a terrible let down.
Makes you wonder what changed their positive attitude in such as short time.
Are you able to contact them to ask them, what went wrong, at least then you would know.
Anyway, good luck with the other interviews, hopefully something good will come from them.
Reeeeally depressed right now. :(
Got a great tip on a place that was hiring. A state job at the local medical school. The pay wasn't that great, but the benefits were awesome and even had a retirement plan. I went in and applied and got 4 calls for interviews for 4 different departments in the last 10 days.
All the interviews went well. One spectacularly so. One was so enthused about my applying with her department she was the first to call me back for a 2nd interview to meet her staff, tried to talk me out of going to some of my other interviews - in a joking way of course - . Her staff and I got along well, when I met them yesterday, one even walked me out, saying how much she liked me and giving me hints about parking and stuff...I was so upbeat yesterday, sure I'd get an offer...
And I got their rejection e-mail this morning.
*sigh*
And this department was REALLY positive about me. The others were OK, I came across well.
It would really suck if I went to all these interviews and didn't get a single offer. :(
I was only wondering the other day if you had found a job, thinking that this thread had gone quiet so I assumed you had.
Bloody hell, its been a while that you have been still searching, and now you may have TWO offers....things happen like that, I know when we had our house on the market, nothing for six bloody months, then one weekend we got two interested parties and they both fought over the house......looks like a similar thing is happening here now with your job hunting.
Dont sweat too much, usually things like this dont get decided on over the weekend, and Im sure by the end of Monday you will be once again back to being fully employed.
Good luck with everything.
Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping I don't get disappointed again.
It's a state job at a health research university, so they offer free health insurance which goes into effect immediately, a pension plan, all federal holidays off, a 5 minute commute and I don't even have to pay for parking.
I start Monday.
[doing a dance]
Got hired!!
Got my pick of departments. It's a state job at a health research university, so they offer free health insurance which goes into effect immediately, a pension plan, all federal holidays off, a 5 minute commute and I don't even have to pay for parking. Took a big hit in salary $8000 per year cut, but nothing's perfect. I start Monday.
[doing a dance]
[doing a dance]
Got hired!!
Got my pick of departments. It's a state job at a health research university, so they offer free health insurance which goes into effect immediately, a pension plan, all federal holidays off, a 5 minute commute and I don't even have to pay for parking. Took a big hit in salary $8000 per year cut, but nothing's perfect. I start Monday.
[doing a dance]
Yeehaw! Congratulations! Wonderful news! :D
That five minute commute will be a wonderful time-saver! You can sleep later and still be to work on time! ;D
So, how's it going now? Me, I'm celebrating one month at my new job!
You should check this page, Lee.
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,11420.120.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,11420.120.html)
See Reply #122, the third post down.
sound slike getting laid off really was a blessing in diguise. ((Del))