This stinks!

[timj219]

Originally Posted by Jhooker

And in our case here, its union so the layoff is based on your number not you as a person.

This is the hardest part of layoffs IMO. No unions involved at my job but the layoffs are still heartbreakingly arbitrary. Some VP somewhere who I'll never see and who has no idea who I am draws a line through a row on a spreadsheet and because that's not the row that represents my job category I keep my job today. But tomorrow it could easily be me. And nothing I've done - no seniority, no accomplishments, no amount of hard work will have anything to do with the decision about whether to keep me or let me go. That's hard to deal with.

[forgop]

Originally Posted by timj219

This is the hardest part of layoffs IMO. No unions involved at my job but the layoffs are still heartbreakingly arbitrary. Some VP somewhere who I'll never see and who has no idea who I am draws a line through a row on a spreadsheet and because that's not the row that represents my job category I keep my job today. But tomorrow it could easily be me. And nothing I've done - no seniority, no accomplishments, no amount of hard work will have anything to do with the decision about whether to keep me or let me go. That's hard to deal with.

Hence my career change to nursing. Even in today's economy, I have yet to hear of nurses hitting the unemployment ranks.

Never mind my performance reviews or anything...I was costing too much money, thus I was expendable.

[longknocker]

It's Tough Out There, Jason. Hang In There, Brother!