RobertN
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
(11-08-2012 05:31 PM)smn1256 Wrote: (11-08-2012 11:22 AM)RobertN Wrote: My company is eliminating about 120 or so jobs(a whole sector of the company). Not sure when that will happen though. They will be hiring a number of temps in the next month or so for the holiday season but those will go away after Christmas.
Will you be OK, or don't you know yet?
23 feet.
Well, I should be ok through Christmas. THe 120 are from a different part of the company and the jobs are located in Ohio. After Christmas I should be fine but may have a few hours cut depending on business. I do have to say(knock on wood) they are pretty decent to their permanent employees and they try their best to get us our hours despite it being slow.
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2012 02:49 AM by RobertN.)
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DrTorch
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
(11-08-2012 10:29 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote: (11-08-2012 01:56 PM)HuskieFan84 Wrote: (11-08-2012 01:10 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote: My father-in-law worked for a defense contracting company, and he was among one of those who were told after the infamous "deadline" that they were cutting his job.. (he got like 17 weeks of pay after his release). They didn't tell him if they were long-planned cuts or due to sequestration issues though, so I can't make any assumptions on that yet.
To be fair.. if you're a fiscal conservative, you're all for defense cuts. Hard to complain about this. Less government spending, it's what conservatives want. When you're ending two wars, one would expect cuts in defense spending.
Correct .... I'd like to cut the government in half. Every department should lose 50% of its funding. Some departments (energy, education, etc.) should just be dismantled entirely.
Energy isn't what you want to kill entirely. Edu and HHS are much better places.
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
I think everyone has heard about FedEx planning to reduce the support staff in the USA by 2,500 workers. They will offer an early buyout plan this coming spring and if enough don't take it there very well could be another layoff like there was in April 2009.
Seriously, if this fiscal cliff scenario happens, we will see about 2,000,000 job losses in 2013. OUCH! But I can't see the Congress/Senate allowing that to happen; they' continue to push the deadline further down the road.
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HuskieFan84
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
(11-08-2012 10:15 PM)smn1256 Wrote: (11-08-2012 10:06 PM)HuskieFan84 Wrote: (11-08-2012 02:46 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: We haven't laid off anyone but there aren't nearly as many temps and seasonal workers this year. I think that has more to do with the dying CD and book market though.
I had read a lot of people we're transitioning to temp workers over full time employees. Not just because of health care, but because the 20 somethings preferred the flexibility, and with people being more proficient with basic computer programs like excel / powerpoint / etc.. the training costs had gone down to make it work for both sides.
Yeah, damn old people can't do ****.
I suppose you can take it that way. Do you disagree with what I said? Are you suggesting young people coming out of school now aren't more proficient with computers?
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Bearcat_Bounce
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
Barack Obama personally came into my place of work and laid 4 people off.
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RobertN
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
(11-09-2012 10:12 AM)Bearcat_Bounce Wrote: Barack Obama personally came into my place of work and laid 4 people off.
That explains your hatred of Obama.
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Bearcat_Bounce
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RE: I'm seeing lots of jobs being eliminated, are you?
(11-09-2012 01:54 PM)RobertN Wrote: (11-09-2012 10:12 AM)Bearcat_Bounce Wrote: Barack Obama personally came into my place of work and laid 4 people off.
That explains your hatred of Obama.
When did I ever say I hated Obama? I was being sarcastic anyways...
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