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View Poll Results: Are you a victom of recent job cuts?
My job was cut recently, or I am soon to be laid off 4 17.39%
I am not sure...what's going on in my company? 1 4.35%
My job looks very safe for the near future 18 78.26%
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Old 01-23-2009, 05:38 AM   #1
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Lay-offs update

Not to curse you guys or anything. But I would like to know how many people here were laid off, or are about to be laid off.
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Old 01-23-2009, 05:46 AM   #2
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I work in the support industry. As long as there are products that fuck up, I have a job.
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Old 01-23-2009, 06:11 AM   #3
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Old 01-23-2009, 01:38 PM   #4
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I quit my job long before I could get laid off. I'm one step ahead of the game.
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Old 01-23-2009, 01:45 PM   #5
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I just got hired a few weeks ago.
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Old 01-23-2009, 01:46 PM   #6
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I quit my job long before I could get laid off. I'm one step ahead of the game.
Lol, nice FT.
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Old 01-23-2009, 01:52 PM   #7
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Hooray for company shutdowns...
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Old 01-23-2009, 02:28 PM   #8
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My dad was recently relocated by his company. He was given the choice of moving to a different section of the company or losing his job altogether, he obviously chose to relocated. By him moving his salary he saved around 2.5 jobs in the division he was in.
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Old 01-23-2009, 04:15 PM   #9
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if my store was to be closed, i'd hear about it roughly the day after the customers do...
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Old 01-23-2009, 04:31 PM   #10
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The company I work for his shutting a plant down in Washington, and has made lay-offs just about everywhere else. My division saw 75 people (out of roughly 500 or so) lose their jobs.
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Old 01-23-2009, 05:28 PM   #12
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I'm in a pretty secure place right now. It would take a lot for me to be let go.
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Old 01-23-2009, 06:54 PM   #13
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Haven't had a full-time or even part-time job, only seasonal... no one fucking hires in San Diego, not for the past 4 years... ask Vampiricus...
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Old 01-23-2009, 08:26 PM   #14
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I was escorted to the door. That is how hostile my job was cut last November.

I know of one other person that just experienced a layoff. His job of 20+ years was just shipped overseas.
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Old 01-24-2009, 02:06 AM   #15
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I'll be fine for some time. There's still hundreds of people needing Web Development work done, and I can always try to go freelance if I lose my current position.
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Old 01-24-2009, 02:07 AM   #16
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Work at a theme park that is always understaffed, and my job is in high damand due to such low staff. So nope!
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Old 01-24-2009, 02:32 AM   #17
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The place I live sucks for jobs. I haven't been able to find one since I moved here about two years ago. So...

Luckily I have other ways of making money that don't require local jobs.
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I know a bunch of people that work for Microsoft in redmond that are shitting there pants this past week, waiting for the axe to fall.
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