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Old 12-30-2008, 06:49 PM
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Losing my day job...

This morning, I woke up and rushed to work like any other day at the glass shop. I was informed that today would be the last day we would be operating normally out of the shop. They are shutting it down indefinitely and everyone is being transferred to other stores.

Ive been given two choices.

Drive to Freehold for work. (Over an hour each way) and remain at the same low hourly rate.

or

Take a severance pay of two weeks and leave next week.

I was completely blindsided. I guess I'll be looking for work and spending more time at All We'll Drive.
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Old 12-30-2008, 07:01 PM
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Re: Losing my day job...

That sucks. I having two weeks off would give you time to find another job and etc?
Are you losing the job or just getting moved?
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Old 12-30-2008, 07:07 PM
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That sucks. I having two weeks off would give you time to find another job and etc?
Are you losing the job or just getting moved?
I was given the choice of increasing my commute to 51 miles each way or getting a two week severance.
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Old 12-30-2008, 07:25 PM
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Re: Losing my day job...

I thought you knew that there were going to be major changes?

That's why I never applied and decided to to do the schooling thing...now I work at the mental hospital (never ending supply )

Sucks this happened, but it should lead to better things.

Good luck and I'll see you this weekend
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Old 12-30-2008, 07:56 PM
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I thought you knew that there were going to be major changes?

That's why I never applied and decided to to do the schooling thing...now I work at the mental hospital (never ending supply )

Sucks this happened, but it should lead to better things.

Good luck and I'll see you this weekend
The branch consolidations were done a few months back. I thought we were in the clear, but we had territory and accounts that our parent company wanted so we were shut down.

See you there.
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Old 12-30-2008, 08:00 PM
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Re: Losing my day job...

I commuted 74 miles each way for 2 years. The money was good but it's not worth it. Gas, wasted time, wear/tear, risk of accident all add up. I now am self employed and rarely work more than 5 miles from home.
You'll find something better close to home.
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Old 12-30-2008, 08:41 PM
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Re: Losing my day job...

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The branch consolidations were done a few months back. I thought we were in the clear, but we had territory and accounts that our parent company wanted so we were shut down.

See you there.

Take the money and run! When a company leaves employees it looks good on the application. That means that you were not FIRED!!

Good Luck with your search!


Most people that are looking for a job and are un-employed are doing it because they can't KEEP a job!

If you sign up for unemployment, it looks WORSE than if you look for work before the first check is cut! A GOOD employee is HARD to FIND!

Walk into a company that you WANT to work for and convince them that they NEED you more than you need them!
Better things are waiting!
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whenever one door closes another one always opens
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Re: Losing my day job...

Good luck. This can turn out for the better. Keep your chin up. YOU have some really good skills, and I am sure someone out there needs them.
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Re: Losing my day job...

I got to keep my job w/ a cut in pay, loss of PTO, no overtime and no shift coverage. All in all it is still better than no job at all, but still kinda sucks.

but as others said, as one door closes another opens...

So I wish you the best in it all.
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Re: Losing my day job...

That sucks Mike, I'm sorry to hear it. Still, you seemed underappriciated there anyways. Land yourself where you can do what you really want, and get paid well to do so.
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Re: Losing my day job...

can you get unemployment then? i hope so.

Sorry to hear dude.
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Re: Losing my day job...

Sorry to hear Mike. I might think taking the Freehold route may be best while searching for a new job. That will at least buy you more time than the two weeks of severence.
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Re: Losing my day job...

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I got to keep my job w/ a cut in pay, loss of PTO, no overtime and no shift coverage. All in all it is still better than no job at all, but still kinda sucks.

but as others said, as one door closes another opens...

So I wish you the best in it all.

Confused,
MY last 'promotion' resulted in a $12,000 pay CUT!!

I used to get all the work I wanted at a lower pay scale, now I make more but OVERTIME is all GONE!!

After 6 years of 'living off the overtime', I now have to deal with 40 hours!

Sorry Mike!! Don't want to steal your thread.

Things are tough all over!!

Best of luck in your search..

Then again, might just be the time to go ALL OUT on the 'evening job'..
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Old 01-01-2009, 04:45 PM
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Sorry to hear Mike. I might think taking the Freehold route may be best while searching for a new job. That will at least buy you more time than the two weeks of severence.
Tim,

Moving my work to Freehold would result in

A) An increase of mileage on my SVX from 315-350 per week to 660-700miles driven per week!

B) Due to the longer commute I would not be able to make it to any of my evening classes for college.

C) I would have even less time to devote to All We'll Drive.


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Confused,
MY last 'promotion' resulted in a $12,000 pay CUT!!

I used to get all the work I wanted at a lower pay scale, now I make more but OVERTIME is all GONE!!

After 6 years of 'living off the overtime', I now have to deal with 40 hours!

Sorry Mike!! Don't want to steal your thread.

Things are tough all over!!

Best of luck in your search..

Then again, might just be the time to go ALL OUT on the 'evening job'..

Jerry,

My favorite conflict is when during the same conversation, I was told by my district manager that I should becoming in at 7:30 daily, and leaving at 5, but to "watch my hours" because we aren't supposed to be getting overtime.

Idiocy.


I'm going to be making some calls over the next business days to see if I can come up with something else, and I will be filing for unemployment once I am told what my last day will be (I am told it will be sometime next week most likely. They have already shut the shop down, but I have to be there until the phones are re-routed to a neighboring shop and the sign is taken down.)
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