Chance I'll get laid off tomorrow

PHeller wrote: Why did you go in debt for a project car in a employment climate with layoff threats?

I'd probably donate plasma and umm err other things to keep my projects afloat. It's a sickness man....where is your empathy? lol

Well at least I've found out that today is actually the last day of the month, if you read very carefully you'll see that the quote came from the weekend edition of the newspaper and was printed in a new article today.

And the layoffs have indeed started, some other government workers got their letters this morning.

Edit: Oh and they'll continue until the end of March. berkeley this, these guys are so lucky that IT jobs are rare here and that most of them suck too much for me to tolerate.

Decisions. My wife is an HR Director and these things are often as messy as they seem at the very top. She's told me numerous horror stories about how people are 'touched' for layoffs.

Good luck Gameboy.

Xceler8x wrote: Decisions. My wife is an HR Director and these things are often as messy as they seem at the very top. She's told me numerous horror stories about how people are 'touched' for layoffs. Good luck Gameboy.

Yeah, that productivity ratio will probably have very little to do with who gets laid off and who won't. Especially in a gov't job.

Basil Exposition wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: Decisions. My wife is an HR Director and these things are often as messy as they seem at the very top. She's told me numerous horror stories about how people are 'touched' for layoffs. Good luck Gameboy.

Yeah, that productivity ratio will probably have very little to do with who gets laid off and who won't. Especially in a gov't job.

Funny story:

At my last job, there was a septic engineer. He went to school for engineering, was in the military, and had worked for the county for 20 years. He barely could send an email. Made close to 55k. He was scheduled for layoff.

He bumped me from my position, which paid half of his salary, but because he was bumping he got to keep his salary - 10%

So basically, the job that I was doing fine for half of his pay is now being done by someone who costs twice as much and doesn't really have any duties different from what I had.

The layoff certainly worked out in his favor and he'll laugh his way to the bank until retiring in 5 years. Didn't really benefit the tax-payers much.

Remove "off" from your thread title, and it becomes a much happier story.

Still on the job, layoffs still going on. None hit my office yet. But now I know exactly what I'd do if I get laid off, I'd put a month or two of morning-to-night work into making the greatest contribution to the Internet since hypertext, earning me a spot in the computer geek pantheon and giving me my pick of sweet jobs! I almost look forward to being laid off now, if I had some savings I'd quit.

I just hope nobody beats me to the idea first, many have figured out the basic concept but it looks like nobody's seriously working on it...the closest things to serious attempts have allowed perfect to become the enemy of good and are going nowhere.

This doesn't mean you're gonna spend all night in the hotlinking thread right?

Hopefully it doesn't come down to you needing to do anything.

Got a call from a buddy at a sister agency that this one split off from, they do the local side of what we do the international side of...he said they're making preparations for us to merge into them. No way all the IT staff would stay on if that happened. I have the least time on the job and probably the least qualifications of the IT staff but I'm possibly the most skilled. For most of the other guys, it's just a job, and they're scared of code and CLIs

good luck

GameboyRMH wrote: Got a call from a buddy at a sister agency that this one split off from, they do the local side of what we do the international side of...he said they're making preparations for us to merge into them. No way all the IT staff would stay on if that happened. I have the least time on the job and probably the least qualifications of the IT staff but I'm possibly the most skilled. For most of the other guys, it's just a job, and they're scared of code and CLIs

Still... while the company is holding the other shoe in the air - take a look around. Guys who know how to get E36 M3 done always find work quickly in this business. Good luck!

I'm always looking around, but you can count the number of IT vacancies per year here on your fingers.

Hope everything works out for you, it really stinks waiting and worrying.

Gameboy, how hard is it to get into the maritime industry on the islands?

I have no idea...I'd imagine there's a higher proportion of those jobs here than average, plenty of boaty stuff going on including a fancy resort where megayachts dock.

"boaty stuff"??

Is that the technical term??

Keep your head up. If there are any changes, I was serious. You know what to do.

SVreX wrote: "boaty stuff"?? Is that the technical term??

For as much as I know about boats, yes

If you can work on engines, you can work on boat engines. in many cases they are -much- simpler due to the fact there is -no- emissions devices required for them (that I know of). You will quickly learn how bad corrosion can get though. Even though most do not use raw water for cooling, salt still gets everywhere and if you think most car owners are idiots.. power boat owners are worse

I'm a shade-tree mechanic at best...I've never worked on engine internals.

mad_machine wrote: If you can work on engines, you can work on boat engines. in many cases they are -much- simpler due to the fact there is -no- emissions devices required for them (that I know of). You will quickly learn how bad corrosion can get though. Even though most do not use raw water for cooling, salt still gets everywhere and if you think most car owners are idiots.. power boat owners are worse

I worked my way through engineering school working on rich peoples toy boats. Good memories of that time.

Now that I have come full circle to where I don't need to earn top dollar, I could see going back to such a vocation.

Something to add... some boats can make a ford E350 look like an easy engine to get at. One of the boats I looked at, the Allied Seawind II, you need to remove the cabin stairs and remove part of the bulkhead just to check the oil.

I will not even get into updraft carbs

Well looks like the whole office survived...we ordered some badly needed new equipment and replaced the company vehicle in the last week (although going from a big transport van to one step above a Kei-type van).

yay!

Great news, man.

Now come the layoffs to cover the cost of the new van.........