Lost my job today

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El_Oso

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Well. I didn't really see it coming, but in a way I guess I should have. I only had 11 months with this company so it's not like a lot of time was invested either.

My boss (13 years with this company), the plant manager was replaced by the company's owner last week on Wednesday and was reassigned to engineering. On Thursday morning he comes in to work and tenders his resignation and leaves after a few meetings and a few hours. He comes back on Friday morning and meets with the owner for the entire morning and then goes home again. I am told he reconsidered his resignation and will accept his new position.

Fast forward to this morning.

I come in to work at 6am, things going like normal until around 8:30 when the new plant manager and the owner come to my office. Side note here: these 2 worked together for almost 20 years before at another place. They shutt the door behind them and my first instinct and thought is "uh-oh". We talk and they tell me that my job is being eliminated, etc... Felt like a girlfriend trying to let me off easy.

Afetr a few minutes, I came out and asked who would be performing my repsonsibilities, which was something they obviously had not been planning on answering. Before he could think about it the plant manager answered with the old plant manager's name. " I thought he was going to engineering?" I asked.

The sputtering response was, "well yes he is, but he is going to help out here too for now".

My guess is that he got demoted to my job and since I was low man on the totem pole, I get pushed out.

SO I ask, did I get ****** or what?
 
It's amazing how often you meet someone a few months after something like this, and they have ended up in a better situation and are happy it happened. I hope it'll be the same for you. Good luck.
 
you'll land on your feet, no doubt. Had a friend take a huge package from schwab only to land in her dream position as a teacher.
 
Dude "and this too will pass"....file for unemployment..that's what it's for, and go back out there and get another job.....You'll be fine....

btw, what type of plant and what type of job were you doing?
 
I've been laid off twice in 27 years of professional work. The first time the boss walked in on a Friday at 5:30 with no warning. I found a job three months later that paid more but had a longer commute. The second time was a planned restructuring and I had plenty of warning and a severance package. I found another job with less money and a lot less stress. Neither were fun when they happened but both worked out fine. Life goes on. Retirement looms.
 
Wow!

I got laid off yesterday too!!! This really surprised me. I am in commercial real estate. I have been at the job for almost two years. I have been working stupid hour too. In fact the night before I was working till almost midnight. "not performance related"... Had too cut back"... Blah Blah Blah

Well you know what? **** them. I will never work for New Yorkers or a New York Co. again. Life's too short. Cheap ******** only gave me 3 weeks severance.
 
i was laid off twice in 2007. from the mortgage industry so no surprise. first company the owner just showed up one morning and said the office is closing today, then made us pack the whole office into a uhaul so they could take it all back to dallas. paid us thru end of month (one week). was already looking to change and got an offer 2 days later. took that despite the 40 mile commute because it was more money and better organized. liked it. was at the new place around 2 months, but was still exploring options of getting back into a laboratory when that place announced a shut down, but gave us 5 or 6 weeks notice pluse 5 weeks severance after that. used that time and opportunity to secure a job for less pay at a lab where i'm really enjoying it more than processing loans. could be up to the same pay rate by the end of this year as well.

so i'm one that came away better for it all.
 
yep mad, agree it sometimes pays to be nice. They agreed to pay my salary thru the end of the month and then my 3 weeks of vacation time on top of that.
 
In 2006, I got "laid off" on my birthday. But I got two weeks severance and a barely used surfboard. (This was LA afterall. )

Spent most of 2007 in Argentina and I'm going back next week. If I come back, I'd like to use my travel experience/Spanish/willingness to travel to get a job NOT in the entertainment industry.

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a little over two years ago I got straight up fired from a place that I had only been at 6 weeks.

When my little ********** of a boss was letting me go, he told me that everyone liked me (and here's the kicker) that they all recognized that i worked really hard, it just wasn't a good fit

I wasn't really that sad, because I hated that place.


Being unemployed sucks, but
two months later I got a job that after commissions paid me more than twice as much as the other job and gave me a company car.with free gas . The office envoroment was 10x better and I love my coworkers. I am stil with the same company.

File for unemployment and spend these first few weeks agressively looking for something new..
 
From late 1989 to spring 1994, I was laid off four times. That's right -- four times in less than 5 years.

I always landed on my feet. The first time, when McLane Co. laid me off, I ended up at TI with about a $10,000 increase in pay. Twenty-two months later, I was laid off by TI, and could only find a job at the Temple Police Dept. for about $12,000 less. A year and a half later, the PD eliminated my position, and I went to a home care agency for about a $6,000 increase. After nine months, that job was eliminated, and I spent six months on unemployment, the only time I filed for it. I took it easy for two weeks, then I started looking for a job in earnest. For six months, I went on every interview I was invited to, which was two, and then I took a $6/hour job working for my friend in his trophy shop-screen printing operation. I stayed there until I got my present job at the college.

My problem was that I am a communicator, and when the economy goes south, communicators are the first to be let go, because they are not involved in direct sales or manufacturing -- the perception among management is that communicators sap money, instead of making it.

File for unemployment, take a couple of weeks off, then start searching for a new job. You'll land on your feet.
 
OK my hornfans brethren, I took this week off, but I did update the ole CV. However, I am not sure things will be so quick to happen as in the past (I've never been out of work, but when I started looking I usually found something I liked within a month).

I have a need for some help to get started.

How in the hell do I file for unemployment. Do I go to the Texas Employment Commission to get started?
 
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