Ignoramus27744 wrote:

On 2010-11-03, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

" wrote:

On Nov 2, 7:08 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" ?
wrote:

? So you're supposed to know that your employer is being bought out?
? How many years can you live on your savings? I did for over two when my
? company was bought and closed.
?
? Sometimes the work is shipped overseas with no warning to the
? employees. How is that a life choice?

You are suppose to know when the job market for your job is changing.
And somehow I was usually aware when work was likely to cease.
Sometimes I was a bit too aware. I worked on a design that went into
production. I did not see any more design work coming down the pike,
so found a job good for a year in another section of the company at a
remote site. When the year was almost up, I checked to see what was
happening at the main plant and found they had just started laying off
design engineers. So I was about a year too early in finding a new
job. Fortunately my former supervisor had found a new job and I was
able to get a job where he now worked.

Another time I worked at a location setting up a new production line.
After a couple of years, we had things running smooth and nothing new
seemed to be coming down the pike. So I looked and found a job
elsewhere. About six months later the gov agency decided they could
do everything with civil servants and the contract I had been working
on got reduced from about 85 people to 6 liason engineers.

My life choices were to find something new to learn and do when things
became routine. Other engineers made life choices to concentrate on
their golf games.


Some jobs never become routine, yet close without notice. At my last
job we were told that L3 was closing a plant up north that had major
problems and was moving what work they had to Florida. We heard that
for a year while they built a new plant up north. In the meantime, were
were busy converting BOM and stock numbers to consolidate both
operations. Then, when the change was to take place they laid off half
the staff and moved the business out of state. How would you see that
coming? How is that a life choice?



The life choice is to save money and remain flexible.


I DID. Have you?


You cannot forecast every corporate stupidity.

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