Layoffs at work...

[kane_magus]

The phrase "the economy is bad" was something that I previously only thought about in the abstract, because it was something that had not yet affected me directly. Until today, that is. Today at work, we had a meeting with all of the employees (10 total). During this meeting, we were told that, for reasons that I won't and can't go into but which basically boil down to "the economy sucks ass right now", 7 of those 10 employees are pretty much out of a job come Monday. This, I think, includes the two higher-up guys who were the ones breaking this news. One of them at least, definitely.

Now, I still actually have my job, at least for the moment, due to the nature of the work that I was doing. Pretty much all that's left now, from what I can tell, is me, my supervisor, and one other guy, at least until things improve, in general. So, like, yay for me and all that I guess, but man... this just blows.

The actual owner of the company, who has been rarely seen in person for the past couple of years or so, is supposedly going to be in tomorrow. For all I know, he may simply decide to just up and fold the company altogether or something, I dunno. *shrug*

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel as I'm not exactly immune to that situation happening in the near future myself. It helps my situation that several staff members have taken the inititive and started taking leave on their own for new jobs, but I don't feel like I'm out of the water yet.