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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqFPt2-XfOA
 
Here is something I did a few years back.  (only thing I ever put up on youtube) I have managed to stay employed through many down sizing, bankruptcies, and re-orgs.   Was it all skill and strategy...some, but also a lot of luck.
 
I work at a very exciting global technology company and it could be so much better for all, but current business models suck all the fun out of it.  Living and dying with quarter by quarter revenue numbers is really quite tiring.
 
My advice....stay low and keep your spacing.
 
JR

Will watch at home.
 
 "keep your spacing".

Well.... at least they are giving you notice.... 3 days beats none.
 
The best thing that ever happened to me was the day I returned from my 3 day weekend off and was told by the plant VP that I was terminated as of that very moment. 10 minutes later, after cleaning out my personal items from the office I had, I was escorted to the back door and my ID badge collected.
 
It was at that moment.... perhaps over the next 2 weeks is more accurate.... that I decided I had been fired for the last time. I started a business. I have been told to get off the job site, and customers have fired me, but "no one person" holds the power over my purse strings.
 
I have always had issues with bosses, especially ones that were stupid. (most of them qualified under this criteria) So working for myself was the best thing that ever happened in regards to working and income.
 
If you have skills that translate to being self employed, AND, if you find it's your head that is rolling on the floor..... take a few days and consider if starting your own business might be the right thing to do. Even consider a move to a different industry if you're not particularly happy in what you have been doing. I went from being a supervisor in a factory running a shift of 45 people to starting a security installation business. I had not really worked in the alarm business before, although I did know electricity. I have pretty much never regretted it. Better hours, better pay, and I don't have to work with idiots. Oh yeah, I get some interesting customers, but that is a short term exposure and I'm good with that.
 
Any way.... just a thought if you find yourself on the outside looking in.
 
 
Oh yeah.... that factory.... about a year, maybe less, later, the company was bought by another company. The new owners went through cutting heads.... all the people in line above me....FIRED!  I was on staff ( as opposed to an hourly worker) and the new company cleaned house with the staff..... they fired more than 60% of them including the VP who fire me, and his boss the Prez. They also cleared out the department heads, and a number of the  shift supervisors, so had I still been there, I might have been fired at that point anyway due to the buy out.

craigb
It's hard to soar with the eagles when you work for turkeys.

.... shouldn't it say ... "fly" with turkeys?

Keep your head up and stay positive. I've been there too.

Moshkiae

craigb
It's hard to soar with the eagles when you work for turkeys.

.... shouldn't it say ... "fly" with turkeys?

Hi,
 
No.

Hi,
 
Sorry to hear this Spacey ... but I'm not sure that any, or all of us, will not be a part of this sooner or later ... and I call it, the game banks play with the money so they can steal the houses they "sold" back and make money off them again!
 
In the end, I have been lucky and was always able to walk down the street and start again ... I have "longetivity" on my resume, and I found that this is a very good attribute to have.
 
That said, I live in fear all the time, that tomorrow, my own company will make changes and something else will come up ... and this is the reason why I don't spend a whole lot of money and try to get by with the minimum possible, and the only thing I have allowed myself to do, is get a new motherboard and processor each year so my computers stay up to date! A few pieces of software here and there and my overtime, or holiday pay uses that up!
 
I would like to see a website start naming all those "people" that basically ripped off employees left and right, and got paid for it, and then left ... that kind of cowardice, in my book, just shows what the values in many places are all about. I remember the King's Table, when we struggled to go from 60 units to 85 in 5 years, and then they got a new "big wig", that had a big mouth, and got everyone up with a hard-ommmm, that the company would be with 500 units (no kidding!) within a couple of years ... and I had been around the restaurant business a long time to know that was not possible to be done over night! Specially a buffett place! So one day my supervisor asks me what I thought of the new "man" ... and I said ... well that depends if you like the devil or not! What do you mean? ... what man goes around saying we will have that many restaurants in a few years when we have struggled to get this far? With what money? AT&T's? I can talk to you and trust you, but I don't have to believe merde when I hear it, do you?
 
I was done before the year was out (1988) and here is the fine print ... that "devil" engineered an internal buyout, knowing the company would be stolen, and then left with his payoff of millions ... ohhh ... one problem ... the company that "bought it" was a surrogate, non existant company that was built with that money swindle in Arizona called "Keating".
 
I kinda feel that Supervisor owed me an apology ... but that's ok ... I was tired of working with child molesters (no kidding!), rapists and dishonorable people. It was the end of the food business for me!
 
Time for a new world, for me, even if I have to struggle through it, which I did for several years!
 
But I have to tell you that in the next 10 years, I wrote a lot, and loved every minute of it! It was hard emotionally, but my inner self had a rave and then some!