I lost my job....

[Jason1212]

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I got laid off from WorldCom in 2003 and man it sucks. The reasoning for getting canned sounds lame as hell, but what can you do? Hit Monster.com and see what you can come up with carreerbuilder.com is good as well.

[Deneb]

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All you can do is look for a job. Try not to dwell on it, you'll only beat yourself up. Maybe they had a piece of shit to replace you with, or maybe they had someone 1000X more qualified. The fact is this, you've been fucked, and you've got to get out there, and get a new job.

I'm not ragging on you at all. I think when a man loses his job, it hurts more than a woman. I know that sounds sexist, but too bad. I think as a man, your job is important, not so much in terms, you've got to love your job, but it's like (other than hard to explain) if you lose your job, it's like your pride hurts more.

You owe it to yourself, to get a job, any job. Even if it's flipping burgers, or cleaning toilets, until you can get something better. You're a man, and having a job, regardless of what it is, is our responsibility. Get any job, then get a better job, and think, You fuckers screwed me, and here I am, better off because of it.

Don't take it too hard, just start looking!

[Thor Von Clemson]

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You fuckers screwed me, and here I am, better off because of it.


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Not exactly the terminology I would use but RIGHT ON BRO [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[taxistationary]

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i hate construction. my friend (now ex friend) and his father own a construction/carpentry bussiness and i worked for them this summer. it was under the table which i thought at the time was a great thing. turns out i didnt get paod for over half the time i was there. how you ask? well say it would be late on a friday..."oh man we can't pay you today, how about monday?", oh well sure, monday comes and nothing. then when you'd ask them about it, they'd make you feel like they were the ones doing you a favor. tp make a long, but true story short, im a cook now [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[charvelguy]

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You know, last fall, I had a little run in with my employer because the sole co-worker (we were equal title-he had senority that wasn't applicable overall) who thought & acted as tho he had authority over me was a complete harassing dick-which was a carry over situation to incedents that from a different previous workplace we mutually had worked at 5 years before.

Basically the guy 5 yrs ago threatened to bring his gun to work and shoot me in the parking lot because he thought this was his way of handling the problem. He did another thing too..which I was very very tempted to deck him for, but I'm at work, it's still a job and he was leaving for another company. In any other situation I probabaly would have which is rare to incite that kind of instinctive reaction out of me.

Anyways..he had started at the present company shortly after all this happened at our old jobs. He had 5 yrs under his belt when I walked in the door. You can just imagine the first day....this toad wouldn't even shake my hand and just told his boss to his face.. "my day just got worse"
Well, you can imagine after about 9 months of working together, the tension was pretty high as there was alot of passive agressive BS going on. My employer just decided to finally eliminate my position. The account for which I was hired never materialized, they ended up sending back a half million in equipment they purchased to do the work. So even tho they were expanding into a new building..the work was so intermittent in my dept..they eliminated my job and probably could hire some helper for alot less than what I was being paid.
Needless to say, the psychological effect could probably be likened to how a walk on death row may feel after having to to clear my stuff out and be escorted by my boss to the exit. Technically, I was laid off, but it felt like a fire.
Anyways..I was fortunate after a couple months to find a company and even tho I have more responsibilty as a supervisor, I at least did not have to take a pay cut and the hours are 3 twelves at the beginning of the week...that has its benefits even tho it takes the rest of the week to get those 3 days out of my system.

In the short run at the moment....I feel much better off even tho there are a few aspects of my other job I kinda miss but on the whole... I'm way better off and have bettered myself. I don't miss the asshole..he's been replaced by a few new ones but at least I now have a post of some authority over them.

My point.. while I know you thought it was good where you were at.. I agree with others, take the opportunity to promote all the positive you can about yourself..some employer will see you as asset and will be willing to take you in..I'm almost certain of it.

[neilli]

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That sucks, sorry to hear that man. This might seem irrelevant, but it illustrates my theory that things tend to work out in the end.....

In March 2004, my wife was made redundant by Ernst and Young (EY). She temped through the summer, took a government (read low paid!) job, but just after accepting that job, she got headhunted by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC).

She's much happier in PWC than she was in EY (though she probably wouldn't have left EY voluntarily) and to top it all off, in March this year, EY offered her another job, on alot more money, which in turn she used to get a big raise at PWC....

Now it's my turn to face a pretty uncertain future, which isn't great, but these days it's just part of life, isn't it?

[Svart]

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guess it is a part of life... got sacked recently after two years of working my ass off. reason? they couldn't stand me, and I say what I mean... so I got fired for a dumbass reason. got to pay off a car etc... only lesson I've learned so far is that working hard isn't doing much on a productionlevel of work... [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[RacerX]

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I let them have it about fucking me over in favor of their own flesh and blood. I also steered potential customers away from them every chance I got. So I burned a few bridges - you screw me, I screw you [img]/images/graemlins/rant.gif[/img]

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That does not sound like you at all Newc [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]