EPIC job fail!!!!!!!!!!!

[Legacy777]

BTW, Jason if you want I will split the last few threads off into their own thread if you feel like we've gone too off topic here.

[253.Asmo]

P.S. Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The section I just finished (about halfway through) is so pertinent to what's going on right now, I'd almost call her a prophet.

Good book, been about 5 years since I've read it, but you're spot on.

Brave New World (Huxley) was always one of my absolute favorites. Much more realistic and believable than one of the other dystopian novels like 1984.



It's just a terrible time for our economy. My generation (I'm 23) is so lazy, stupid and apathetic it drives me nuts. I've been paying taxes since I was 14, yeah, I come from an upper middle class family, have had a lot of opportunity given my way, but what ever happened to work ethic??


Sorry to hear about the loss of your job. That is a damn shame how business will cut someone who is a valuable asset based on a bottom line decision. But it has and is happening everywhere.

As much as I hate working in warehouses and should be going to school right now, I feel somewhat glad that I have a "decent" job with benefits. At the same time I've seen 15-20% layoffs where I work, and have many friends laid off and/or looking for work. Just a shitty time for this country, but derfahrer is right. This is the challenge of OUR era. Everyone must do their part, work, work work. Pull our head out of our collective, consumer-driven ass and show the world what it means to be part of the greatest country this world has seen. (as much as america makes me sick sometimes )

Matt

[jeffast]

well that sucks you lost your job, all i can say after reading this thread, is this. allot of the people you meet are lazy, don't do shit but expect the world. America needs to learn the value of a hard days work, i have met only one person under 25 who understands the value of a hard days work. the government needs to stop bailing out fail corporations, it will cause problems in the beginning, but we will be back stronger after losing the weak.

honestly the way things work today, makes me want to head but a knife

[TheSubaruJunkie]

Wow there is alot of shit in this thread. I agree with Josh in the part of living within your means. However, as far as the government is involved... i do think they need to assume a certain amount of responsibility. It is because of the deregulation of everything in the past century by our government that has lead to what we have now, and the only institution left that is large enough to help is, unfortunatly, our own government.

Call it socialism if you will. All I care about is the desire for company's to hire hard working Americans again.

I lost my job as well, 3 weeks ago. Had the same meeting with my boss that DropD had. My boss told me they are forced to downsize, my position is being cut and they will no longer be needing me. After 3 years of employment... it was over after 3 hours of a monday morning.

Have I jumped out there looking for a new job? No. Have I considered flipping burgers or delivering pizza?? No.

I have no debt. I keep my bills low and I qualify for enough unemplyment benefits to continue to live within my means while I sit back and think for a minute. Think about which direction will be my next, and where I want to go from here.

Anyhow, Join the club bro. Nobody is safe. Everyone is losing their job. People at my mothers work, who have been with the company for 20+ years are being let go. In this time and age, employee's are no longer prized by their employers, however considered a burdon and an expense... the easiest way to increase profit for the next quarter by removing them from the payroll.

It can, and chances are, will happen to somebody else here... before things get better.

[tahiti350]

The other way the big corparations are saving money is by taking all the manufacutring offshore, which takes more jobs here. Seattle just lost another big employer this way....

[dropdfocus]

Start my new job Monday at Advance Auto Parts (1.5 blocks from my house) as the Inventory Control Manager over the Local Area Warehouse section of the store which is newly added. We will serve as just in time inventory for 8 other stores instead of them ordering things from the main branch warehouses.

I'm getting paid $1.00/hr less to work there but I don't have to drive 40 miles a day to get to work and come home so it's still in my favor! Plus I obviously get an employee discount on all parts in the store...BONUS!!!

[Brat4by4]

I'm getting paid $1.00/hr less to work there but I don't have to drive 40 miles a day to get to work and come home so it's still in my favor!

Uhh yeah... you are WAY ahead. The saved time and gas more than make up any gross paycheck loss. I would have taken your new job in a heartbeat if I was driving 40 miles everyday.

That's why I really didn't like when they pulled the same end-of-the-day "oh yeah, your canned" routine at my job that was exactly 5 miles down the road from me, with a bike trail going from my street to the neighborhood of my work! You know, I had only worked there over 10 years...

[dropdfocus]

I'm totally lovin' the new job too! Great bunch to work with. We are constantly joking around and messing with each other just for the hell of it.