Mr. Silly Posted January 15, 2014 Share #1 Posted January 15, 2014 20% of the people who work with Mrs. Silly are getting laid off today. Mrs. Silly thinks her job is safe since she received annual performance review papers whereas none of the people she knows who lost their job received them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 15, 2014 Share #2 Posted January 15, 2014 Sorry to hear this, that stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 15, 2014 Share #3 Posted January 15, 2014 Does she work alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted January 15, 2014 Does she work alone? She works at a bank with others. Their stock is up about 1.5% today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted January 15, 2014 Share #5 Posted January 15, 2014 She works at a bank with others. Their stock is up about 1.5% today. They should fire everyone. Then the stock will really climb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingtermite Posted January 15, 2014 Share #6 Posted January 15, 2014 Are they giving a bacon gift basket to the ones they're kicking out the door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Beanz Posted January 15, 2014 Share #7 Posted January 15, 2014 Means nothing! I was at a company that had a dramatic slow (thanks to the big "O"). Ther had been 3 waves of lay offs over 3 months. I figured I would get cut since I was QC and that is where companies cut back when they can. I was told not to worry. I was even chosen to go on for some special classes for inspection training. I completed the week long course then got laid off about 3 weeks later before I could even use any of the newly found skills. Don't worry, your job is safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted January 16, 2014 Share #8 Posted January 16, 2014 I remember when I worked for Boeing, there were all these rumors of layoffs...The big bosses called a big "all hands" meeting in the cafeteria to tell us that was all rumors, don't worry. Our union steward even worked on our team, and he even said that there was nothing to the rumors that was on Friday Saturday morning, in the local paper, the front page headline was "Boeing Electronics Announces Layoffs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingtermite Posted January 16, 2014 Share #9 Posted January 16, 2014 I remember when I worked for Boeing, there were all these rumors of layoffs...The big bosses called a big "all hands" meeting in the cafeteria to tell us that was all rumors, don't worry. Our union steward even worked on our team, and he even said that there was nothing to the rumors that was on Friday Saturday morning, in the local paper, the front page headline was "Boeing Electronics Announces Layoffs" When I worked at Honeywell, we had a similar incident. Rumors were that big layoffs were coming. We were told that a few would come, but not many. That very afternoon there was a glitch in the keycard system and many people's (including mine) keycards wouldn't work to open the doors anymore. Everybody thought that was a sign for sure that they were on the chopping block. In the end, layoffs were not small, they were HUGE. I was one of the ones that kept their job, though. Luckily our department wasn't very replaceable. It's hard to outsource software development when much of the work is required (by government contract) to be done by U.S. citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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