At 2:30 today I will be unemployed

I was just about to go for a nice relaxing run when i got a call saying I have a mandatory meeting with my direction, the CEO and the president of HR at the corperate office. They have been laying off people like crazy so I knew it was coming. I will be far happier but will not be able to find a job that pays this well in this field easily. I guess it will be a good time to do some soul searching. I wonder what my severance package will be. Wish me luck in holding it together...I feel limp and shakey right now.

 

lyns, you'll be fine this can be a really positive thing for you - you know from our previous talks....you'll turn out fine

 

i know your worried and scared about whsat might come next
but my inclination is to say congradulations
every endings a new beginning and i'm sure it happened for a reason and will only lead ya to somewhere your meant to be going
maybe a more secure job at lower pay is what ya needed anyway..
or time off to just enjoy living
maybe an opportunity to travel since ya were making such good $ take some time to enjoy it and do the things ya couldnt do while working

 

Hi Lynsey,



I have a message for you from Bernie, he would like to meet with you today at 2:30 pm. this is a mandatory meeting. Please be here at the office no later than 2:30 today

 

and that's all the email and the phone call said. They didn't say to bringmy laptop though but I have heard you trade it in for your severance...god and I'll lose my cell phone too and my lap top and my pension because I'm not vested yet shit.
But I do need some time off

 

unfortunatley my investments in coach, ralph lauren and prada are not redeamable...I blew my money. But can easily pay my bills on unemplyment which I just looked up and the table shows I'll get about half my salary now-which is what I made at my last job...plus I live at home and I doubt my mom will charge me rent anymore if I am not working

 

I just hope I am getting laid off and not written up or fired...my reputation is sooooo bad right now.

 

ahhh the trappings of the high paying job..lol blowing everything on expensive clothes then havin nothing if things fell through

dont worry your not the 1st to dothat.. just lookhow many multimilionares go bankrupt just cause of expensive habbits

 

I know I just assummed I was going to move up really quickly because that's the way things looked. I did slack a little bit because my work enviorment was very unstable and I do best with stability and I had a lot of problems. I also dated my subordinate and yeah i wasn't very good for the company. I completley understand. I can take being laid off, I can take that, I don't know how I will hold up if I am getting fired though and if I get written up and still have to work there I will just be humiliated.

 

This sucks Lynsey. I'm sorry to hear this is happening. If it's a good thing it'll work itself out right. Everything always does.

You sure it couldn't be something else? Do you want to lose this job? Could you possibly go back to your old job? Would you want to?

 

maybe your reading far toomuch intothis mandatory meeting
your assumming its bad news before ya have any facts except that they called a meeting
is it a private meeting with the boss or could it be some just major announcement or policy change that they want to discuss
dont be too nervouse or upset till you know for sure

 

i want to be laid off so i can go back to school full-time, not fired and def not written up. I just keep throwing up and gagging and I'm dizzy and I think if they don't fire me I might quit. god laura I just wish they would rip the banaid off really fast. if im laid off i am taking 6 months off while on unemplyment. i paid into it for all these years so ya know it's not a big deal and I have an academic-citizinship scholarship for school next semester and can take out student loans. i am scared shitless

 

30 people have been laid off...and this is exactly how they did it

 

Look on the bright side you wont be working .

 

this is true

 

thanks for verything here it goes with me luck

 

everything willl turn out fine - don't stress the negatives

 

good luck!!!!!!!


really hoping ya get the 6 months off paid option
but i hve a feelin your all worked up over a monor thing
but we'll see..good luck to ya

 

You know even in the 70s wish it was not quite the 60s you could get by with out a job if you were not marry or own a house etc . You could hang out at several friends houses thru out the day or even most of the day in some 1 house "normally this were after school or drop out hangs out" but rent ,food, vehicle insurance was far cheaper so many parents could load the fridge with enough food for several kids or adult = those days are gone. Maybe a few well off kids@young adults this days can hang out . dont think it was all flowers in the 70s several recessions took place and even a oil embargo "short lived" but even so things were not so prohibited expensive .

 

half an hour?? right??? till you find out??