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Is your company laying people off?
Today, my company got rid of 3% of it's workforce and decided to close a few branches in Scotland and Ohio. However my building was not affected.
Anyone else nervous about being on the chopping block? and if so how is it affecting morale?
We seem to be pretty happy here since it didn't touch our location, but people are getting nervous.
Anyone else nervous about being on the chopping block? and if so how is it affecting morale?
We seem to be pretty happy here since it didn't touch our location, but people are getting nervous.
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My Mom's company is looking at closing a plant as over 50 percent of their market is auto makers. It could be her plant or a plant in Germany.
My company has let people go like crazy. Not counting the company that acquired us, there are only five people who have been here longer than I have. Four of them are named Mike. Over half of the office is empty desks.
Yesterday was my review, and I thought I would get the axe. Actually, they just told me they needed more from me. They obviously really need my skills, but they want me to do a lot more work. I don't know if I should give it to them, or what. I could just change jobs, but it looks like every other job out there is looking for the same thing. I might have to do it temporarily, while I hatch my escape plan.
But, where there is adversity, there is opportunity. This is still a drop in the bucket compared to what FDR had to deal with, and I'm fairly confident that we'll pull through in one piece.
I'm in civil service, so my job is mostly recession proof. Our budgets, however, are not. While the lab came out with a budget increase this year, other divisions in Ag & Markets took budget cuts as high as 20%. Promotions and new hires are frozen, but so far, I haven't heard about any layoffs.
Once they start laying off government employees, you know we're fucked.
As long as my company survives, I hope they won't lay me off. They'd only do that if I did bad things, I think.
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There are some developments, however. Currently, the plan is to consolidate all the billing departments for the west coast into one facility. The location has yet to be confirmed, but our VA has put in two different locations for bid. This will eventually be solved by the bureaucrats and politicians. Even though our facility has the best numbers in collections and bills made, it probably wouldn't be a factor to the people that make the final decision. We probably won't hearing anything for a few years.
Our facility/department is on a sort of hiring freeze as well. I forgot what the director said, however it doesn't look good in regards to our budget. It's not looking good either in the billing/collections side because people are losing their jobs which results in losing their medical insurance.
But to reiterate:
It's at least partially because I'm on a working holiday visa, They don't get many Australians who immigrate to this part of england, people see my visa and think I'm just another itinerant backpacker who will leave after two months for somewhere else.
I don't know though. Maybe I'm just lucky. Good luck to everyone looking for work or on the verge of a possible lay-off.
* If this term is unfamiliar: Truck factor is the degree to which your employer would be utterly fucked if you were killed by a truck the next morning.
The concept doesn't really make sense for an individual person, though one could come up with a usable extension of the concept.
The thing is 1 year ago I could of had a job at any design company for crazy money. How times have changed.