One Hell of a week
This past week at work was a roller coaster from hell. Not to mention my shity day on Wednesday. It pails in comparison to Thursday. It’s was about 10am and three guys from the estimating department came walking by to bid us goodbye. Why? Because they ALL had just been laid off. Then about 30 mins later our sales guy came over to tell us he was packing up his office. He’s a bullshiter so we didn’t believe him until we walked to his office and saw his stuff packed. Damn another let go. My two co-workers and I were in our supervisors office talking about the events of that morning. It was not easy to just see 4 people you work with get laid off. Then about 15 mins later, my one coworker and I were walking towards the front of the building…our supervisor was not in their office. Ok, as we round the corner we notice that the door to the CFO’s office was shut. Oh shit, I asked my coworker if the head of HR was in their office. Nope! Man! I knew immediately that they were letting our supervisor go too. Crap! About 10 mins go by and the supervisor comes out and comes over to us and tells us the news. I was right. That makes 5 people let go. I can see the unemployment for my state just go up a percent. My coworkers and I go out to lunch, we needed a break big time. Although it was still very hard to come back to work and actually be productive. So I go home and enjoy a quiet evening of NOT talking about work. The next morning I hear the news that one more person was let go. Now that is six people in one day. I’m sad to see all them go. I hate the reason too, damn economy! I’m glad it was not me. I feel bad because I know the owner of the company had to do it, but didn’t want to by any means. How many more emotions can yea evoke in me. Man! I needed a three day weekend, yet will only get two. Back to work it is for me tomorrow. It is going to be hard, but I will be busy with the added work I’m going to get that my supervisor used to do. It also means reporting to the CFO now. Just gotta get to know the CFO’s personality better. Their nice to work with. I’m so glad I still have a job to go to tomorrow.
OneOfMany said,
2 March 2009 at 2:23 pm
Friday, they laid off 33.3 % of our department (4 out of 12). My boss was one of the “affected” ones and many, many more were laid off. They say it is company-wide and I’m happy to have a job, but boy, does work today seem very quiet and like a ghost town.
Calling Him Out said,
3 March 2009 at 7:36 am
I’m so glad we both still have a job!