I'm gonna get laid...off
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
Its not every day you get laid and get paid
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Try the financial industry... I get laid off every few years... Three times so far.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
If you need good recruiters I might be able to recommend some. If you're willing to relocate I might be able to help with interviews, too. Goodluck man, it's not fun, but try to make the best out of it (time with family). Also, I could endorse your skills on linkedin! That's a thing now.
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
It's up to you how you treat this - as an opportunity, or an end I've been on 'redeployment' for 2 years (technically, redundant) - but they keep needing my skills - I keep promising myself when the axe eventually falls, I'll see it as an opportunity (likely wont feel like that to start with ....) btw, 23 years ! Hang in there, focus on what you can do - good luck 'g'
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
That's a shyte thing to happen. I'd say welcome to my world but it's kind of crowded and I don't think you'll hear me bleating among the rest of the crowd. True, my last job went well until the hard cash-strapped reality of working for a small firm bit me for the third time in as many years! :) All the best, mate. Edit: Don't you guys in the US get redundancy pay? Here in the UK, if you work for a firm for more than two years you get a week's pay for each year over two years. Good firms factor in a multiplier like the one did that I worked at for nine years. The first £30K was tax free. I enjoyed nine months off until Mrs. W started getting a bit rat-arsed about me being at home and she was out bringing in the bacon. :-D
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
Work as a contractor. Got laid off in April from Intel (hated working with the new guy they hired anyway). Before that got laid off in July of last year by Station Casinos (really the wrong person for the work they wanted done). Before that May of 2011 wtih Microsoft (reorganization set the project back), before that August 2010 (project being significantly reduced with project being delivered) (I did work for the State of Utah in between). Before that May with CentraAlert (two senior programmers ended up with serious illnesses, and they pretty much shut down the program). Don't feel too bad. At least you have pretty permanent work (these days 7 years is an eternity for a job)
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
I got laid off so many times that I decided to start my own consulting business. Sometimes it's hard, but the rewards are there. Good luck to you
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Congratulations... Last time I got laid off (after 5 years) I got no severance... But I did land a much better job in about 2 weeks (salary, benefits, work conditions).
Pualee wrote:
Last time I got laid off (after 5 years) I got no severance...
Did the company go under or undergo bankruptcy? I would have thought severance pay was required by law.
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
Have a fiver! Not that it helps any, it's more like symbolic. Hope you'll be alright! Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Pualee wrote:
Last time I got laid off (after 5 years) I got no severance...
Did the company go under or undergo bankruptcy? I would have thought severance pay was required by law.
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They re-incorporated the company. We all had to sign new job offers with the new name. The terminated everyone 1 month later. So we didn't have any history for the severance. I knew a few folks with 30+ years there.
Wow...that sounds so shady. What company was this? :D (PM if you don't want to post here)
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Well, I work in the front office, so when a fund/group/team gets shut down, it takes me down with it. If I stayed in the back office or the IT department of a larger firm, I'd have it easier.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
They re-incorporated the company. We all had to sign new job offers with the new name. The terminated everyone 1 month later. So we didn't have any history for the severance. I knew a few folks with 30+ years there.
In this part of the world (the UK) that's covered by TUPE [Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)]. You take your rights of employment with you to the "new" company. I would have thought this would be the case in any civilised country.
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That's a shyte thing to happen. I'd say welcome to my world but it's kind of crowded and I don't think you'll hear me bleating among the rest of the crowd. True, my last job went well until the hard cash-strapped reality of working for a small firm bit me for the third time in as many years! :) All the best, mate. Edit: Don't you guys in the US get redundancy pay? Here in the UK, if you work for a firm for more than two years you get a week's pay for each year over two years. Good firms factor in a multiplier like the one did that I worked at for nine years. The first £30K was tax free. I enjoyed nine months off until Mrs. W started getting a bit rat-arsed about me being at home and she was out bringing in the bacon. :-D
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
PHS241 wrote:
Don't you guys in the US get redundancy pay?
I don't think it's a legal requirement.
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
I've been laid off twice, both times with a two year gap in employment of any kind. Overall, I went 13 years without a "real" job, living hand to mouth without access to any sort of benefits. The signs are pointing subtly to the possibility of it happening again in the next year or so. It's unspeakably hard - financially and emotionally - but it's survivable, and you can recover. Good luck!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Congratulations... Last time I got laid off (after 5 years) I got no severance... But I did land a much better job in about 2 weeks (salary, benefits, work conditions).
Pualee wrote:
But I did land a much better job in about 2 weeks (salary, benefits, work conditions).
Either time is (a) economy is great, (b) you're a junior staff, or (c) you're such good programmer people just can't wait hand you an offer Which is it?
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
When that happened to me, I embraced it. Used the money to partly fund a return to uni and qualified as a teacher. 'course I can't get a flamin' job as a teacher, now...
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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next week. 7 years. Severance plus emergency savings, shouldn't last long. Alms for the poor. :sigh:
hey sorry hear that. I don't think financial industry is going to heal anytime soon though (especiailly hiring). Suggest you just get *any* job to cut down on burn rate for time being, and consider yet more education during this period (if you think you be working for somebody eventually that you're not going to run your own gig for the long hual) Good luck buddy
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