Well, it's official. as of of midnight tonight i'm on layoff. going to do my unemployment stuff on monday. no clues where to even start looking for a job. word on the grapvine is that somewhere between 750-1000 people at my company are affected. i'm so sick of hearing the phrase, "DUE TO THE ECONOMIC SITUATION"...  oh well, business is business eh? it wasn't personal. doesn't make me happy about it but not much i can do to change it.

Odd as it sounds, I dont know how I didn't get axed. Maybe cos I am the only one that actually knows unix. The whole rest of the clan knows the application we support inside and out, left to right .... but they cannot list a freaking directory in unix to save their life. And my client and all other large clients use Unix only, In fact some of them use old now dead unix. Like Dnyx. Yea that POS.
Cool.
Buddha.

a huge majority of our guys were given till jan 30th...then they're laid off as well. i don't have exact numbers. but i haven't heard of ANY of the major manufactures here in ohio hiring. all are laying off. with the way the economy is at this point i doubt i could get a mcdonalds job if i wanted one. maybe i need to change fields. who's hiring? what jobs are in hot demand for employees?? 

There will always be a need for morticians

    but i've heard it's a dying business...   

Quote from: jserio on January 10, 2009, 10:17:34 PM
a huge majority of our guys were given till jan 30th...then they're laid off as well. i don't have exact numbers. but i haven't heard of ANY of the major manufactures here in ohio hiring. all are laying off. with the way the economy is at this point i doubt i could get a mcdonalds job if i wanted one. maybe i need to change fields. who's hiring? what jobs are in hot demand for employees?? 

Prostitution? , i tried, the head pimp told me i was too ugly

Man I'm sorry you're laid off but at least you can get unemployment. My job hasn't scheduled me in two weeks now the last week I worked I got six hours, and the week before I got three hours! Granted I'm part-time but geeze I can't even get un-employment 'cause I'm employed! If I quit I'd get 60% of three hours harder work applying. Good luck, on top of it all here in Florida they are cutting budgeting to Work Force because they are using 2006 numbers when our economy in Fl was booming!

My saving grace I get disability but it doesn't cover the bills! Catch 22 I guess! oh well at least I got my bike for now how much longer I can make payments without any extra money I don't know!

Mary

Damn Justin sorry to hear this man. I hadn't been on here in a few days.
Problem with unemployment for him Gooffy is that the maximum benefit will be no where near the amount he was bringing home as a machinist. I went through that back in 03.
As far as fields of work everybody is being hurt, at this moment in time though I could have been making more in the private sector I am glad I work for a public school district.
My wifes lab froze their 3% wage increase last week said it aint gonna happen. But layoffs don't look likely.

yeah, my unemployment benefit is gonna be around 326 a week.    i was bringing home almost 550 without overtime. oh well, what can ya do ya know?