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wizardzz

Wow, so, if I wasn't laid off last fall, I'd be without a job today and missing a paycheck right now. It looks like I got a better severance package than everyone else (just 2 weeks) is getting now (minus 2 weeks). Any who, a lot of (just now) former employees are going to the media. I hope they tell some of the good stuff so I don't have to do it myself. Maybe I'm a curse? My company 2 jobs back laid off half the workforce a year after I left. My last employer collapsed within 8 months of my leaving. Should my current company be worried? Am I a company killer?

Rage

wizardzz wrote:

Am I a company killer?

Just waiting for you to join Apple.

Mark_Wallace

OK, already, OK! You don't have to cancel your CP membership.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Rage

Well, since he joined, some good people left, and were replaced by gin and pints drinking Englishmen.If this is not the beginning of the end...

Joan M

Couldn't you try to start working at adobe? Specifically at the department where they program the update system... We could be lucky... :rolleyes:

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R Giskard Reventlov

wizardzz wrote:

Am I a company killer?

Does sort of sound like it. Perhaps you should stick to comedy.

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Nagy Vilmos

:thumbsup:

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Lost User

Just point out to your current employers what happens when you leave places, and suggest it might be best if they make sure you don't want to leave there.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

lewax00

Clearly it's because you alone do so much that without you companies cannot support themselves, having not realized you do the work of 100 men and only replacing you with 1.

Dalek Dave

What was the company?

--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

wizardzz

[^] Wasendorf forged signatures and fabricated bank balances on the documents and simply mailed them back to the Chicago-based NFA, the person said. The scheme apparently began to unravel as the NFA shifted to electronic confirmations. The NFA "started getting suspicious. He was resisting this new way of confirming the balance," the source said. Wasendorf only recently signed the authorization, a decision that would quickly have led regulators to uncover the discrepancy. Note in my profile: "Back office, end of day reporting, NFA compliance." That was for them, they let me go in October.

wizardzz

My thoughts exactly!

Dalek Dave

I think you were better off out of it! Somebody grew fat on that though. I wonder where the cash is.

--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

wizardzz

They did pay nice bonuses though. Where'd the money go? Gold. Mostly in gold, the rest was squandered on strippers, hookers, hotels, jets, etc.

wizardzz

My boss said "Maybe, we're next!" His last job was at refco [^] which collapsed while he was there, he left and got 2 offers. One was for the place we currently work, the other was for the place I worked at, that collapsed this week.

GenJerDan

wizardzz wrote:

Gold. Mostly in gold, the rest was squandered on strippers, hookers, hotels, jets, etc.

Where does the squandering come in?

No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

wizardzz

When it's other peoples' money. The President was the type of guy to go to strip clubs and claim he "lost" thousands. Yes, he would say he "lost" a roll of money there.

GenJerDan

wizardzz wrote:

When it's other peoples' money.

But you should never ever spend your own money. As Shakespeare said, That way lies madness. :)

No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

wizardzz

Yeah, I was along for the ride. I thought I was enjoying his money when we bought $1600 bottles of wine, $100 plate dinners, etc, knowing it was likely others' brings about some guilt.

Lost User

wizardzz wrote:

Maybe I'm a curse?... Am I a company killer?

Don't take this the wrong way... but I hope I don't see you around.

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