It has been my experience from working with high tech companies that are constantly laying people off, that the majority are soon working and much happier than they were before, asking theirselves, why did I not quit sooner? I am sitting here in my house today because I was laid off after twenty years with a company. I never looked for a full time job and now do part time work from home because I salted away all I could in a 401K program. So now I do a little web design, do some free lance writing and photography, and send a great deal of time on The Cat Site! I realize that you are probably much younger than I, but keep us posted on how you are doing. I am willing to bet that in the not too distant future you are going to be one happy person!Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles
Yep. It finally happened. I'm the only one from this office, but that's just because my Mother quit on Monday. The rest of my co-workers are being put in a new program that they've been working on getting. But they only have enough space for 3 people, which is what they have left after me. I was basically told that though I've been here longer than one co-worker, he's more experienced (translation: older) they are putting them in that. That's kind of ok because I'm not sure I want to work in the other program.
My last day was going to be this Friday with 2 weeks severence pay, but because of my students (who are disabled in some manner) I said I thought it would be better if I stay till the end of the month, which is when they will close my program. They said they appreicated that, so that's that.
I'm not shocked. I'm not happy. But I don't know what else just yet. I just had to tell somebody. Oh did I mention today is my first day back from vacation???