Lost the day job guess I'm back to full time maker

sunshadow

sunshadow

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Drove an hour in to work like I do every week day, walk into my office, my boss comes in and tells me to follow him, we go to HR where the head of engineering is waiting, and I get told that my work has been great, but product engineering has been restructured and there is no longer a position for someone with my qualifications, here's your exit paperwork, and we'll need your keys. At least since I wasn't *fired* they gave me the courtesy of letting me clean out my own desk (if you are fired they perp walk you from the building and you can come back in a week to pick up your personal effects from HR)

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

-Page
 
Sorry to hear that but at least you have something to fall back on.
 
Situations like this just piss me off sometimes. Sure, I understand that restructuring, down sizing, and the like occur. It's the nature of business. However, if I were to leave my job, I would be expected (as a courtesy from a professional) to give at least a 2 week notice. Heck, I gave a 6 week notice when I left the clinic. Sure would be nice for employers to do the same.

Of course, I guess that opens up the big, bad, mean, and crazy knifemaker to be able to do all kinds of mean things to the company. :rolleyes::barf:

If you're fired, sure. Get out and don't come back. If you're being laid off in a cordial fashion, it would be nice to give you some notice or at least severance.

Sorry to hear about this, Page. Best of luck to you!

-nathan
 
That just sucks Page,best of luck finding a new gig.
Stan
 
I had noticed the tag line on your location a time or two before. It seems to have some real relevance now. We don't know each other but I wish you the best of luck. Mark
 
Bummer Page , a lot going on in N.Y, these days . Hope all works out for the best for you . Where I use to work before retiring , they have laid off 75% of there work force last year .
 
Mark Knapp said:
I had noticed the tag line on your location a time or two before. It seems to have some real relevance now. We don't know each other but I wish you the best of luck. Mark
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I have been downsized out of 4 jobs since moving to Syracuse, there is this never ending chain of dominoes effect here, all of the industry has been moved to China, the GE plant closed, New Process gear closed when I moved here as a bench jeweler from Rochester to get married Carrier laid everyone off (My wife had a house here and a kid in school so I was the one that moved) I was working for a year, we went through Christmas without ever getting behind on the jobs, and since there wasn't enough work to keep two bench jewelers busy I got downsized, then everywhere I looked th same thing happened, then I got a job in Utica and watched as all of the other industries in the Mohawk Valley shut down and downsized except Remington Arms. I am chairman of the Mohawk Valley chapter of the ASM International, and I have been watching as our membership has been dwindling as companies let people go and they left the area trying to find work or a climate where they could at least live cheaper on their unemployment. Having been self employed, I am not sure if I can get unemployment even, and I have never been able to make enough on self employment to pay the bills and medical insurance. In the early 1980s when this whole free trade thing started up I watched Cortland New York shrivel up and die as all of the jobs moved, some enterprising bumper sticker made up a batch of bumper stickers that read "Cortland NY, Will the last one out turn off the lights" since then I have watched as corporate America has been selling our country to the Chinese, Koreans and whomever else is willing to have their people enslaved for $5.00 per week so the fatcats can reap huge profits.

At some point all of the customers will be out of work and there will be nobody left to buy Chinese made bigscreens at WalMart, in the meantime America bleeds silently

-Page
 
Sorry to hear about the job Page. Were you a contractor or an employee? You made it sound like you couldn't even manage unemployment to help bridge things.That makes a crappy situation even worse. :(

That said, you're one of those guys I expect to see land on his feet. You simply know too much stuff to stay without work for too long.

Good luck!

-d
 
I was an employee. Last night the guy who runs the Mass Spec called me and asked what happened, apparently there was an end of quarter purge, he said that at least two managers got sacked yesterday, nobody is talking so he's having a hard time getting info, but a lot of people are no longer there and everyone is paranoid

-page
 
Page, I hate to be a "Told You So" kind of person, but you should have never shot that nudie video with the two hot chicks getting it on while curled up on a turbine blade. Sure, it seemed like a good interoffice fun at the time..............

Seriously, I am real sorry to hear this news. I know you are resourceful, and will not be one to sit around and moan, but will either find a niche to fill...or create one for yourself. Time to get busy and start listing knives and swords on the "Exchange".
Best wishes for a quick resolution.

And, BTW, I wouldn't mind a copy of that video.
 
My thoughts are with you and the Masses that have lost their empoyment to overseas slave labor.Hopefully, you will find employment very soon. I would show up at the unempoyment office in your area and determine what qualfying entitlements are available. Good luck:thumbup:
 
bladsmth said:
Page, I hate to be a "Told You So" kind of person, but you should have never shot that nudie video with the two hot chicks getting it on while curled up on a turbine blade. Sure, it seemed like a good interoffice fun at the time..............

Seriously, I am real sorry to hear this news. I know you are resourceful, and will not be one to sit around and moan, but will either find a niche to fill...or create one for yourself. Time to get busy and start listing knives and swords on the "Exchange".
Best wishes for a quick resolution.

And, BTW, I wouldn't mind a copy of that video.
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Y'know Stacy, I'd love to get you that video, but they locked me out of the network:D

been busy retooling the resume (and still unpacking from the medieval society show over the weekend) I have applied for a couple of positions and have been networking with folks from Pittsburgh to Portland ME, the big thing is that I need to find a position with health insurance, the money thing I can figure out how to scrape up a living, but at my age I need to have health insurance. At least now I'll have time to finish up the commission pieces I have orders for quickly.
:cool:
-Page
 
I just got a call from one of the techs at my now former employer that they are having problems. Seems that there is one test that is only done at my former employer, when the equipment broke down last year there was literally nobody in the country set up in such a way that we could send the samples off to, when we got the machine jury rigged so that I could run samples I literally had the vice president of the corporation 2 feet off my left shoulder for the first run, then the machine got completely redone with new hydraulics, a new controller, a new furnace etc. and the tech who normally runs those tests and I spent 2 weeks with the guy from the hardware vendor while I figured out how to get the guy from the hardware vendor to make the new equipment run like the old equipment was supposed to have run, well they let me go on Monday, the technician is out on vacation this week. He never wrote the procedures on how to run the new machine, and several million dollars worth of material cannot ship without the test being done. My former boss and the head of the lab department were apparently tearing their hair out trying to figure out the machine. If they cannot get it out on time for the container ship, several hundred thousand pounds of metal will need to be airfreighted at some time next week to Europe. Sucks to be them:D:D:D
They could hire me back, that would solve their problems but they won't. It will likely cost them more for this little bobble than a year of my salary.

Oh well, back to my workbench

-Page
 
Lawdy Lawdy Lawdy, I just got the phone call that they need me and will pay a full day for 5 hours of work

HeeeHeeeeHee

-Page
 
Page, if this was facebook I would like that comment. The same thing happened to my father about 10 years ago, he and a couple of his co-workers were let go due to a new computer being installed and doing some of their work. 2 months later 3 of them were called back in for 2 months to do work the computer couldn't. The next year they were called back in for the same thing. Seems they forgot to revamp the computer. Now all you need to do is change something, so that when the other guy comes back off vacation he cant work the machine. :-) (just kidding... sort of)
 
I did a Google search and found NY has a program Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) which provides certain eligible individuals the opportunity to start their own businesses while collecting unemployment insurance benefits.

Here is a link to the website.

Hopefully this will turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
 
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