What a week

[Sangersteve]

TGIF.

It all started innocently.

Donna turned on her kiln on Monday, the control wouldn't work.

No problem, just use the back up. I'll order a new control.

Next.

Donna is headed to the post office.

Her car won't start.

No problem, just take the truck, I'll check the battery.

Battery dead, charge battery and test.

It seems OK, charges, alternator putting out about 13.5 volts, holds charge.

Next

Donna doesn't trust the car to start (after 24 hours of starting and letting it sit then restart etc.)

Donna takes the truck to dentist appointment.

She comes in the house after the dentist

Says "You need to come look at this"

Crap now what?

Gate to park truck by shop is 12 foot wide.

If you guessed she nailed the fence post with my truck.

You win.

[Mark]

The company that employees me had a mass firing yesterday. I survived it. The guy that works right next to me didn't. My group that used to be 4 is now down to 2 again. It sucks.

I need to do this shit for another 6 years and 15 days. I can't wait for that day. Having said that, I'm grateful I didn't get whacked yesterday.

[jellowrestling]

The company that employees me had a mass firing yesterday. I survived it. The guy that works right next to me didn't. My group that used to be 4 is now down to 2 again. It sucks.

I need to do this shit for another 6 years and 15 days. I can't wait for that day. Having said that, I'm grateful I didn't get whacked yesterday.

Sorry to hear that, but glad you survived the massacre. A similar thing happened to me 3 1/2 years ago. During the first few months of the pandemic, we got paid to stay home. Then, we worked from home for a month. On our first day back in the office, one of my co-workers who was still working from home called and asked if I had received an email saying I had been laid off. I checked, and I hadn't, but the person who was working with me that day did. Six of the nine part-timers had been unceremoniously axed. I had a bit of survivors guilt until I realized that they were getting more from the pandemic unemployment than I was making by working. That was a great team. They eventually hired some new part-timers at a lower wage, but their quality is mostly several rungs below the old team.

[Mark]

The company that employees me had a mass firing yesterday. I survived it. The guy that works right next to me didn't. My group that used to be 4 is now down to 2 again. It sucks.

I need to do this shit for another 6 years and 15 days. I can't wait for that day. Having said that, I'm grateful I didn't get whacked yesterday.

Sorry to hear that, but glad you survived the massacre. A similar thing happened to me 3 1/2 years ago. During the first few months of the pandemic, we got paid to stay home. Then, we worked from home for a month. On our first day back in the office, one of my co-workers who was still working from home called and asked if I had received an email saying I had been laid off. I checked, and I hadn't, but the person who was working with me that day did. Six of the nine part-timers had been unceremoniously axed. I had a bit of survivors guilt until I realized that they were getting more from the pandemic unemployment than I was making by working. That was a great team. They eventually hired some new part-timers at a lower wage, but their quality is mostly several rungs below the old team.

Similar story here...

In May of 2020, a whole bunch of our people got furloughed without pay. One of those that got furloughed was the guy that was in the same slot as this kid that got fired Wednesday. In this case, he was on his way to work one morning when he got a phone call telling him to go home. I was able to get that guy back to work a few months later by volunteering to take on a lesser role enabling him to come back and fill my slot. In November of 2020, every furloughed employee that had not been called back to work was fired.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, the company tried to pass Brandon's shot mandates down to us. We were told that every employee that didn't get the shot would be fired on January 12, 2022. There are a lot of stories to tell about that one, but the bottom line is that a lot of tenured employees just quit, leaving us in a big hole. Two members of my group, including the guy that had been furloughed the year before, quit their jobs. We were a group of four, all with 35+ years on the job, and all of a sudden, we were a group of two. Our coverage area is about 20 counties.

We got a couple of brand new hires in the spring of 2022, including the kid that was fired this week. The other new hire was fired in July, 2022 as part of a mass firing, apparently in an attempt to spike the stock price or pay a dividend, or some other short-sighted bullshit. We've operated as a group of three ever since.

Which brings us to this week. This poor kid got a phone call at 5:20 Wednesday from somebody he's never met, and was told, "Don't come to work tomorrow. You no longer work here. We'll send you a box to ship us your laptop, cell phone, and company badge. We'll send somebody out to pick up your company vehicle." Our manager wasn't even in the loop. In fact, he wasn't even told. We all kind of started figuring it out Thursday afternoon when my other co-worker was browsing around our dispatch program on his phone and discovered that this kid's name was no longer in there. I believe the managers were finally informed about what had happened in a conference call late Thursday afternoon.

So now we're a group of two again, and we still have the same 20 counties to cover. The kid that got fired spent most of his time in Rockwall and Kaufman Counties. I spend most of my time in Titus, Camp, and Wood Counties. My other co-worker spends most of his time in Grayson and Cook Counties, and also in Durant, Oklahoma. Neither of us are in a good position to absorb the stuff near the metroplex, but we are now expected to do so.

Shit show.

Corporate America is a shell of it's former self.

[rusty]

The company that employees me had a mass firing yesterday. I survived it. The guy that works right next to me didn't. My group that used to be 4 is now down to 2 again. It sucks.

I need to do this shit for another 6 years and 15 days. I can't wait for that day. Having said that, I'm grateful I didn't get whacked yesterday.

Sorry to hear that, but glad you survived the massacre. A similar thing happened to me 3 1/2 years ago. During the first few months of the pandemic, we got paid to stay home. Then, we worked from home for a month. On our first day back in the office, one of my co-workers who was still working from home called and asked if I had received an email saying I had been laid off. I checked, and I hadn't, but the person who was working with me that day did. Six of the nine part-timers had been unceremoniously axed. I had a bit of survivors guilt until I realized that they were getting more from the pandemic unemployment than I was making by working. That was a great team. They eventually hired some new part-timers at a lower wage, but their quality is mostly several rungs below the old team.

This is what happens when corporations get huge tax breaks that are supposed to be passed on to the empolyees and consumers. It never happens that way. Keep voting Republican..... you'll continue to see this kind of crap.