Well, first time I've ever had to lay someone off and it sucked. Basically this girl dropped out of school so she could pay her bills and get caught up financially (single mom) but the word came from the top we had to drop some people so i had to lay her off. She was shocked and almost started crying ... i understood the business decision but man did it still suck. 7 other people were layed off from my company today to. Even the Aerospace/Defense sector is getting boned.
laying people off does sux....getting laid off is worse. Workers feel pain as U.S. jobless ranks grow | U.S. | Reuters Rising rates could threaten recovery - Eye on the Economy- msnbc.com Home sales flat; mortgage delinquencies rise - Real estate- msnbc.com been off work for a year and a half. no unemployment left, not alot of hope for going back to work in the industry I've worked for 35 years. Maybe Carradine was the fortunate one eh?
Not to be a dick but if it's been 18 months, why not look at doing something else? I moved for one unrelated industry to another one and while being a big risk, it worked out. My positive attidude was a huge factor I'm told.
Every time my boss calls me I always expect it to be "take the day off." We are that slow. Turned out he was just calling to find out my finals schedule...
What unrelated industry? After the mills shut down (12/13 total) there hasn't been anything else around here but building rich people's homes until that came to a screaching halt. There is walmart or retirement homes though. How would anyone here like a career working the cart corral at walmart or wiping wrinkled asses at a retirement home? Relocating is not an option. I may have to get the degenerative arthritis in my back certified as my work-comp claim has me blacklisted from reputable builders and heavy construction crews in this state......yes, they do that when the workers comp costs as much as it does. Add to that age discrimination and competition for jobs with more and more 20-30 year olds and it gets pretty bleak. Maybe it's time to start sucking on that government tit for foodstamps and medical then go through the jump-the-hoops rutine with SSD. Reguardless of the legitimacy of a claim, it still seems like a scam to me and that's why I've not done it yet. Options are what enable a person to maintain a good to great attitude. The less options, the harder that is.
Hey...since I started my management position, I've had to lay off 3 people. Two it came as a total shock. The third...kind of knew it was coming. It's one of the worst things about my job. However, I'm in also charge of hiring, so if I hired the person that I just fired, it makes it ten times worse. Epic fail.
So, you fired him, then a few weeks later said "just kidding!"? Unrelated, but thought this was funny: http://break.com/index/signs-the-economy-is-getting-rough.html?matchid=
in our workplace, managers get fired/laid off before us. weve been without a manager for a month now. we just come in, do our job and leave.. and yes, gas has crept up again but im hearing nothing about it on the news or internet this time. last time everyone was in an uproar, now its like everyone is succumbing like sheep
lol you guys don't think gas is going to go back up? interest rates are at all time low's, the repercussions to cheap lending is inflation. pear that with the fact that well their is still plenty of oil in the world right now its becoming more and more difficult and complex to extract, Inevitably prices will keep going up. I'm trying to guess how long we have before we hit new highs.
I give it 2 months on the short side and 6 months on the outside until it gets where it was before. Torx was right. People are responding like sheep. By the time people start griping, it'll be past where it was before and the cycle will repeat over and over. Each time stretching it out a bit further.
I don't think it will happen that quickly, it has to more then double before we get back to our peak. it won't happen until were is at least very close to a full economic recovery but over the next few years, it will, and it will continue to creep forward over time. I'm certainly not an expert on oil, but I'd be surprised if we were at that point by next summer.
I don't think it'll go up too much higher than it is right now. Our economy is dependent upon it atm in terms of transporting the workforce and keeping them going. Once the economy starts to hit a comfortable level again, expect then for gas prices to go back up. There are other markets besides the US where oil companies can profit (and do) in the meantime. Timing is everything when you want to make big money without people recognizing you're doing so..
The gas prices only went down because the investors who made it go up lost all their reserves in one blow, so they couldn't spend. That's right, the largest oil speculation and holding companies were... the Banks! Now that they're allowed to lie again (no more mark-to-market reporting of their actual current value), they're suddenly much more {gasp!} solvent than they were in the week previous, so they can spend money bidding up futures again. With the interest rates so low, they look for anything that seems to offer a better return. This is what caused the mortgage bubble in the first place, and now the commodities bubble is starting to inflate again. It's the speculation Ponzi cycle. There are only so much of a commodity to be bought, but more folks want to buy it, driving the price per unit up, which makes the commodity more attractive to more investors, who drive it further up, who... till the last buyer gets in just before the market for these commodities tank, then it starts all over again. It's the same setup as with diamonds; the producers restrict the supply, and the middlemen/speculators keep the price high. DeBeers basically controls the whole diamond market, so they can do this easily. The oil trading system basically manages this by constantly teetering on the edge of financial disaster, with OPEC doing it's part of constricting supply as much as it's able, and investors (the Banks) keeping prices high as much as they are able. Integra's sig, declaring he has no sig in his sig, because he needs no sig, and needs a sig to tell us so, equals irony!
Goofus....you mean to say that the ones responsible for the mortgage bubble and recipients of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars because they are too big to fail, are the same ones responsible for 4.79/gal gas and "record" profits by the oil companies (which, no doubt, the banks were heavily invested in)? I think we-the-people are fucking chumps....nothing but chumps.
USA Today says current fed debt is $550,000 per household. Government healthcare is predicted to cost $1 trillion dollars a year for the next 10 years. The fed has never taken in more than $4 trillion a year in taxes, and they are working on a huge deficit. So taxes are going up 25% just to start for government healthcare. Lil' old me has been around for decades but this is nothing like anything we've seen before ever. This is for real and there is no stopping it. Hedge. And stay close with your family and local community.
QFT!! The beast has taken on a life of it's own for sure. The wife, my catz my mom and I are tucked away safe and sound with eneough firepower to assure our safety. i'm sticking to my guns and weening myself off of this sinking addiction known of as civilization. No more banks, no reliance on anything government and soon, no more reliance on the scam called the power company.
