<p>Did anyone else think that ‘they’ had it all figured out, that we’d never see dramatic highs and lows in the economy ever again? Wow, was I naive.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d get the resume going if I were you. My sympathies.</p>
<p>I ws hoping to see dramatic highs again…</p>
<p>Dad II: I suggest you try to keep calm. It looked like a number of people were going to be in your situation including me at the company that I work at. We were going to “shared work weeks” until June and then if things didn’t improve extensive layoffs. Fortunately a bunch of us were transferred to another department and things don’t look too bad for the moment. People survive even after losing their jobs and you will too if things don’t work out.</p>
<p>My resume is always updated.
I work in the kind of business where people are let go all the time. </p>
<p>As a woman and a minority working in a male dominated business, I have always instinctively raised my hand to volunteer for work that some of my male colleagues wouldn’t do. I think it has served me well because more often than not many of those projects have lead to more responsibility. In today’s environment it is even more important to stand out, not to be under the radar, to volunteer for difficult projects and put in extra effort.</p>
<p>Dad II, no real “suggestions” but wishing you luck in your search (if it turns out you are unemployed come Monday).</p>
<p>I find great solace in blaming W and the R’s :)</p>
<p>Isn’t anyone else waiting for the other shoe to drop? DadII, on a Sunday, suddenly finds out he’s about to lose his job. What will chapter two be? DadII asking us if keeping the 22 big screen TVs and taking 3 five star vacations will be OK with his DS getting a free ride, on his way to a $300 dinner?</p>
<p>The last time I called DadII on his BS he sent me a PM telling me how smart I am! All of these good wishes and good ideas can go to better use.</p>
<p>Actually <em>I</em> was wondering where Dad II had disappeared to. </p>
<p>I do find it odd that he was posting about a $126 lobster on Friday…but a possible layoff today. Usually layoff info doesn’t happen on a Sunday. And boasting about a largesse meal at a restaurant just before posting about being laid off from one’s job just don’t go together for me.</p>
<p>I work at a company where you can be at an awards dinner one night and laid off the next. That’s just the way it works.</p>
<p>There are a lot of professional positions looking at layoffs right now.</p>
<p>Scary, scary stuff.</p>
<p>Best of luck, DadII.</p>
<p>I choose not to get upset over what other people post online. So if this is a real situation, I wish DadII the best of luck.
If this is hoax, then oh well, it’s not the first time I’m being gullible. :D</p>
<p>Agree with hmom. The Sunday “announcement” clearly doesn’t pass the smell test, even if he claims emails were sent around. Sorry-- blowing the BS whistle on that one. This could be the next chapter in the “gotcha” book DadII is writing, or it could just all be the effects of drinking too much at 3 in the afternoon, and finding out tomorrow it was all just an alcoholic blackout. </p>
<p>Assuming this is the next chapter in this silly “lets see how we can mess with these folks more” book, I am guessing the next chapter/thread we will see is “Wow- I am winning a huge age discrimination lawsuit against my former employer. I got a large, generous separation package, my healthcare paid for 2 years and now a 7 figure windfall in the discrimination lawsuit. How can I shelter this money offshore somewhere so Stanford won’t find out and I wont have any change in my EFC” chapter.</p>
<p>no fair, you made me get tea into my sinuses at bedtime</p>
<p>Watch out, dragonmom. DadII will claim the patent on that :)</p>
<p>And I was not joking, should this be a real downturn in his life, dadII has proven ability to entertain a diverse audience.</p>
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<p>When I worked in corporate life there is an involuntary reduction in force they would call you on sunday to ask you to make sure you come in on monday (that was the tell tale sign that you were going to be released on monday).</p>
<p>My h worked for a Fortune 100 co. One division was called to an off site “meeting” , where they were all told that the division was being closed. When they returned to their offices, they discovered that while they were offsite, their badges had been deactivated and the passwords to their computers had been deleted. Ewww.</p>
<p>*There are a lot of professional positions looking at layoffs right now.</p>
<p>Scary, scary stuff.*</p>
<p>I agree- unemployment rate is high & after weathering an 8 week strike late last year- my husbands company is expecting to layoff over 4,000 in our area.
It must be really scary for those who live like they are gonna die next month and just had a big holiday celebration.</p>
<p>Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don’t show up tomorrow don’t bother showing up on Monday.
Homer: Woo-hoo. Four-day weekend.</p>
<p>This keeps those of us who have seniors awaiting college results occupied, gotcha or no.</p>
<p>This economy should have most of us being more careful with our spending. The bottom line is that almost all of us could be subject to a loss or reduction of income (or assets…). This is a good time to look at ways to reduce our own budgets to a zero percent increase in spending. For us, that means more of a reduction in discretionary spending, and realizing we have to say NO to some things we would like, but don’t really need.</p>