This is a bad day

"Brian, The Life of" (familycar)
01/17/2017 at 15:09 • Filed to: gutted

Lot’s of layoffs at work today. Tons of really good, quality people paying the price of shitty decisions by management. I’m safe but I’ve been “on the list” more than once in my career. Honestly, I don’t know what feels worse, getting cut or surviving the knife. This just sucks so fucking bad :(

DISCUSSION (17)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:12

What’s your line of work?

Brian, The Life of > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
01/17/2017 at 15:13

SaaS Product Manager in “the industry”

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:14

So uh something with computers?

E90M3 > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:15

I feel you, I was in oil when the downturn struck. Everyday none of us knew if we’d have a job the next day. Getting cut hurts worse I think, having survived layoffs for 1.5 years to eventually get up myself.

Nibbles > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:15

Balls.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:20

Getting cut is worse. I’ve only been laid-off once in my life and it was a shitty job. But that hurt worse than the numerious employees I’ve seen laid off around me. At this point I’d be looking for a new job.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:22

Ugh. Sorry, man. Been there. Can confirm: does suck.

Regardless, glad you made it through.

Nonster > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:22

That really sucks, I survived a layoff of 300 engineers at my company about a year ago. It always puts one helluva damper on morale, Good luck!

Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:32

Sorry, man...had a unique situation just out of college....survived a June layoff and was soo happy I was safe. The guys that got laid off, though, did okay, most of them found stuff pretty quickly. Then, 2 weeks before 9/11/01, they closed my whole plant, and so I got laid off into the .com bubble crash and 9/11 fears as a new college graduate. Was out of work for 9 months.

Sneaky Pete > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:33

You do that live in California, do you? My company started layoffs last week continuing into this week...

MonkeePuzzle > E90M3
01/17/2017 at 15:33

just had 6 more disappear from our office this past week... the stress will never end!

Svend > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:34

All of us below the managers of this world pay the price of their incompetence.

My managers couldn’t run a bath, never mind run a business.

E90M3 > MonkeePuzzle
01/17/2017 at 15:37

They still have people left to layoff? I used to be really good friends with this other engineer, and she was up in the Houston office as part of her job and it seemed like everyday she would message me on communicator being like I saw another person come to get a box for all their things. I thought the layoffs were over once I survived early 2016, and well as we can see I was wrong.

kiwi_matt > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
01/17/2017 at 15:42

Software as a Service

OPPOsaurus WRX > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:46

yea getting cut is waaaayyy worse, you still have a job, they dont.

smobgirl > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 15:55

Gotta say, I feel like which is worse kind of depends on the industry and how well-developed your backup plan is. Life can be a little better without that constant fear hanging over you. Keep a low profile and work out some other options! But also have a beer to celebrate still having what you’ve got.

Manny05x > Brian, The Life of
01/17/2017 at 17:44

I am in your same position, only thing is we are union so we worked our contract for a 90 day notice as part of a merger. It is going to be sad watch those people go. I survived the cut but the anxiety of knowing i can be next does not let me work in peace.