Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on December 12, 2012, 03:15:49 PM
Welp guys and gals, looks like I'll be hanging out in this thread as of today.

Merry Christmas to me 

Sad to know man . . . cheer up and Merry X-Mas to you and yours

Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on December 12, 2012, 03:15:49 PM
Welp guys and gals, looks like I'll be hanging out in this thread as of today.

Merry Christmas to me 

That more than kinda sucks.

Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on December 12, 2012, 03:15:49 PM
Welp guys and gals, looks like I'll be hanging out in this thread as of today.

Merry Christmas to me 

Hope you can get out of here soon.

Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on December 12, 2012, 03:15:49 PM
Welp guys and gals, looks like I'll be hanging out in this thread as of today.

Merry Christmas to me 

Uhhhh.  So sorry to see this....LazyLightningJinglin.  Maybe change the "lazy" to "crack the whip" for good job karma?   

Rhetorical question buy why do some companies have to do this around the holidays / corporate year end.   

Hang in there with the job search.  It can be mentally tedious and oh so frustrating but hopefully not for you! 

total bummer to lose your job - especially this time of the year

when i lost my job in october, i feared the worst - and the stress of being unemployed is huge. people told me i'd end up in a better job then the last, and at the time it was hard to believe... but something really good can come out of this for you too. reach out to the people from your past, let them know you are looking and to keep you in mind for a position if one should open up.

hang in there

Quote from: TiNi on December 13, 2012, 03:01:23 AM
total bummer to lose your job - especially this time of the year

when i lost my job in october, i feared the worst - and the stress of being unemployed is huge. people told me i'd end up in a better job then the last, and at the time it was hard to believe... but something really good can come out of this for you too. reach out to the people from your past, let them know you are looking and to keep you in mind for a position if one should open up.

hang in there

+1!

Thanks everybody.

I beat myself up pretty bad over this.

I suppose it is a good opportunity to try something new.

this isn't fiscal cliff pre-emptive letting go kind of thing was it?

Money saving measures is the name of the game.

There was a lot behind it with new HR directors and people looking for personal gain. In the end, I got the shaft.

why can't they put the salary they expect to pay in the make the beast with two backsing job description?

it's not that hard to type it in there. when you finally get a call back and they are all excited and they like what you have done but they want to pay you about half of what you are asking that's just rude.


i'm gonna go become a hermit somewhere.
somewhere that is warm

Quote from: KnightofNi on December 18, 2012, 12:05:47 PM
why can't they put the salary they expect to pay in the make the beast with two backsing job description?

it's not that hard to type it in there. when you finally get a call back and they are all excited and they like what you have done but they want to pay you about half of what you are asking that's just rude.


i'm gonna go become a hermit somewhere.
somewhere that is warm

I was planning on moving to Costa RIca. You can set up a hammock on my beach.

Quote from: ZILBERT on December 18, 2012, 01:16:08 PM
I was planning on moving to Costa RIca. You can set up a hammock on my beach.

DONE! i'll even do some work for booze from time to time. 

Quote from: gottagotoworkjinglin717 on December 12, 2012, 03:15:49 PM
Welp guys and gals, looks like I'll be hanging out in this thread as of today.

Merry Christmas to me 

Sorry to hear that you got dinged...it sucks

Quote from: Stella on December 12, 2012, 08:35:53 PM


.........Rhetorical question buy why do some companies have to do this around the holidays / corporate year end.   

because they suck,

because despite all the feel-good/group-hug blather and propaganda the HR departments spew out at the employees, the management is as soulless as an xls spreadsheet

because xls tells them to cut operating expense (humans) to jack up profit margins so they can collect their bonuses

because the idea of "building" a national socio-economic commonwealth is no longer important,

because extracting maximum returns, profits and bonuses are all that matter

i was actually coming in here to say basically what rat said.

i got a letter from the company that laid me off in July telling me i was going to get my bonus this year.
looking at the numbers on the print out, all of the targets were met and exceeded.

so this tells me that myself and the others were laid off to make the numbers look better.
i was never deluded enough to think that i was anything more than just a number, it's just now i really realize that my number had a $ in front of it.

also, i'm not going to complain that i am getting the money, i'll take everything from them that i can. lol