well, they laid off 5 people this morning (out of 55ppl in the office)

3 admins and 2 junior engineers

im pretty effing nervous since, my job was just created (hence they did fine before without the position) and i have only been here 6 weeks. my boss tells me not to worry, but man o man have i never been so stressed.

this economy blows

its crazy cause the people here say they cant remember the last time they laid off people. arrrrgh

 

on the plus side i just paid 1.87 a gallon and filled up the tundra for 35 bucks!!!

 

We had a bunch of layoffs a few weeks ago. The silver lining there was I moved up a lot in the office football pool.

 

but what you fail to realize is that your newly created job used to be that of 4 people - we had a small layoff last week and just got notice that there will be no holiday parties this year..

 

Uhg seriously all I look forward to is my work xmas party. Top shelf open bar, filet mignon, bonus checks, and the cute secretary I only see once per year??? What else could I ask for.

 

Maybe they started you on the lower end of the pay grade and ended up canning some dead weight long timers on the high end of the scale.

vtec9: spider kicks ass.

 

oh i do realize that! thats what makes me feel extra bad for these people

I will be doing all of the work one of them did, and alot of the work 2 others did.

Were still having an xmas party, but they said they will no longer be giving christmas gift cards out (which im assuming was their christmas bonus)

 

all the people let go were my age or around my age, and i know they werent makign more money then me. which worries me more!

 

Funny you're having trouble. We are dying for software engineers on our team and can't find people to fill the spots!

 

gee maybe I should jump the fence and go do software.

after all, we all know that hardware guys make the best software engineers.