"fhrblig" (fhrblig)
02/02/2018 at 22:17 • Filed to: None
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"fhrblig" (fhrblig)
02/02/2018 at 22:17 • Filed to: None | 7
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I’ve been at my new job a month, and I got a text from the guy who took over my position. He got laid off today. o.O
Guess I jumped ship at the right time. Eagle kammback for your time.
MrDakka
> fhrblig
02/02/2018 at 22:52 |
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Damn, talk about dodging a bullet. That’s cutting it real close
smobgirl
> fhrblig
02/02/2018 at 23:19 |
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Was he just not a good fit? Or is this on the company?
Now I want chunky tires on the fiat. Hmm.
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fhrblig
> smobgirl
02/02/2018 at 23:24 |
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He said it wasn’t presented to him as budget-related, and that they weren’t unhappy with him. He is probably right. They are really short-sighted and I think they’re in panic mode.
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fhrblig
> MrDakka
02/02/2018 at 23:25 |
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I think if it were me, they probably wouldn’t have laid me off but they would have doubled or tripled my workload. I can’t say I’m too sorry I left.
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smobgirl
> fhrblig
02/03/2018 at 00:05 |
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A friend of mine works in mining here and nearly every job she’s had sounds like that. She’s frequently hired on while the last layoffs are working out their final weeks and ends up out of a job herself a few years later. I couldn’t do it. At least their severance packages are usually very good.
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MrDakka
> smobgirl
02/03/2018 at 01:34 |
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Ugh that sounds tiring. Looking for a new job is always annoying
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> fhrblig
02/03/2018 at 06:52 |
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That’s closer than my closest. Crazy.
Mind you, my closest was after the core competent people (including me) had been suffering as a skeleton crew for almost 4 years. Upper management had always been a train wreck but they made some particularly terrible decisions about 6 months before I left and made even worse ones 2-3 months before I left. When I went, it was like a shockwave. After my departure, most of the engineers quit within a month except the completely hopeless new guy (~2 months when I left, but the weakest member by far of a team that was intensely competent out of necessity) because it was clear that the company had no future. This set off layoffs and they were liquidated by the last buyer about 4 months later.
I liked what we did there and this is why I do not tell former employers where I will be going and wait 6 months to update my employer/position on LinkedIn. My current former company is dying from the inside after I left. My leaving set off another exodus of engineers, including the VP of Engineering. I do some consulting for them and keep in contact with various members, but the bad hires that pushed me to make a move (funny how this pattern repeats itself) are making it painful to deal with the company, so I simply tell them “no” unless I deem the project sensible and I know it’ll benefit a former coworker that I like. The new people are so hopeless - they hired an empty suit to take over a subset of my roles and it looks like my prediction that it would take at least 5 people to replace me is coming true...
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fhrblig
> smobgirl
02/03/2018 at 09:35 |
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My sister works for a cargo/charter airline and she’s been with around 3 or 4 companies in that time. They tend to hover around bankruptcy a lot and it’s always in a state of upheaval. Most of the management at her current company changed, and she’s not happy. She just started the process to finish her degree so she can get out.
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fhrblig
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
02/03/2018 at 09:39 |
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Over the last 3 years, my old company lost a lot of good people through retirement and attrition, and they replaced them with the wrong people. Morale has been sinking for a long time and I think it’s cratering now. I get the sense that they are now trying to fight a fire in a high-rise building with a bucket brigade.
shop-teacher
> fhrblig
02/03/2018 at 11:25 |
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It’s nice to get out while the gettin’ is good. I saw the writing on the wall of my last district, but it got way worse, way quicker than I thought. I felt like a damn genius for leaving.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> fhrblig
02/17/2018 at 10:08 |
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That’s some impeccable timing, I left my last job since it didn’t seem like things were going to pick up soon and we’d already had a couple of 1 week layoffs. A year later and a third of the people at the facility I was working at were let go permanently. Glad I jumped ship when I did.