Recovering Baptist

At least I’m not alone

Posted in Work by RB on May 20th, 2008

One of the strange aspects of losing your job due to a “reduction in force” is that you might find yourself holding a lot of paperwork. One document that I have lists every every employee by position only (no names) and age. It’s to show that there’s no age discrimination going on. When I first looked at it I was pretty pissed off. I had been told that my employer was laying off 10% of its workforce, and I didn’t see that many cuts in this document.

As it turns out, my ex-employer is updating the document daily. I just found out that another person from my group lost his job today, and so far 29 people in my division are gone. That’s a pretty big chunk. My ex-coworker also ended up revealing more than she intended. I now have in my head at least one more person that I’m quite confident will get cut, and I know at least one person who is safe.

I’m torn. I’d love to tell my friends that I KNOW their job is in danger, more than they thought. But, that won’t really help anyone. So I guess it’s back to career assessments for me. It did feel good to tell my ex-coworker that if she wanted my help she could hire me.

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