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Mudcat

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Big meeting at work this morning. The big announcement: the manufacturing end of the place where I am working is closing down in the new year. (Thats the end where I work.)

Shop floor guys are currently being taken one-by-one to discuss their situations with various managers. Then they are being asked to exit out the side door and go home (rather than pass through the shop floor and interact with those still waiting for their meetings).

Then they will be back tomorrow.

As a contract temp, I am basically nobody. Don't know what will happen. It makes sense that I would be one of the first to go. Knowing the operation and the current state of things, there is no reason they couldn't just let me go for good today.

Waiting, waiting . . . :dunno:




Ahh life's rich tapestry.
 
Well I am still here. Everyone is gone for the day except for me and the 3 permanent guys in Distribution.

I don't even get the half day off like everyone else WTF?

The permanent guys in Dist. aren't even getting a "farewell" meeting. As far as we can tell, they are safe (although no one feels safe). Seems like there is a chance there will still be a place for them in the new world of sub-contracting everything out. It makes sense that there will still be stuff that needs done.

Seems highly unlikely they would need me long-term though. They really haven't needed me full-time the whole time I have been here and there should only be less and less to do as time marches on..



(Which is fine btw. I'm not whining. I am neither worried nor upset about any of this.)
 
Layoffs suck, whether you get the axe or not. Kills morale and shit.

BOL Muddy

Here they don't even give you a meeting. You get a welcome committee made up of on HR lady and one big security guard at your desk, then you're immediately walked out of the building. Your personal shit is shipped to you.

Buh-bye.
 
The job scene in Ontario is quite depressing. Such a contrast from Sask, where everyone is hiring.

Plommer may be retiring soon (if he isn't already retired), his heart, and back are not co-operating.

(Plommer has back pain/stiffness from the moment he wakes until a couple hours later when his back loosens up and/or the meds kick in.)

May take a retail sales job at a sporting goods store for shits and giggles, but it appears as though long term disability (ODSP) is on the horizon for him.
 
Matty
Layoffs suck, whether you get the axe or not. Kills morale and shit.
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This statement has got me thinking.

First of all, there is truth to it. I went through a more-or-less comparable situation a couple decades ago and it was devastating. It was a place with fantastic camaraderie and when the lingering death kicked in, it was just freaking awful.

However I am trying to decide how to categorize the pre-announcement morale level at my current place. I have never been around such a whiny group of guys. All they do is bitch and complain about the company, then they cheerfully badmouth any co-worker who is not within earshot.

I have to own up to a level of disingenuousness in an earlier statement. I said I felt bad for the old guys. The truth is, I have many times thought they are a bunch of spoiled brats and I would love to see them have to deal with the real world at a company that does not kiss their ass like this company has.

Okay, now that the reality is here, I am not giddy about it. I would prefer this wasn't happening to them. But I can't say I see any great tragedy in this group being broken up.
 
Archie
oh wow that is a shitty work situation........


was there any writing on the wall or murmurings of the manufactoring shut down coming down the pipe?
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It was one of those things. Guys speculated every single day that things could shut down. It was part of the general whinyness I was describing above.

Guys were predicting every day for 30 years that things were going to shut down - and then today they were right (and are giving themselves a big pat on the back for their expert forecasting abilities.)




As far as actual writing on the wall? Ehh. There has been some ramping up of activities at the shop in Mexico which might be indicative of something but it's not a new facility. Remains to be seen how much stuff even ends up going there.
 
I have mentioned this news to a few people and they keep wanting to give me condolences. Obviously I am framing things wrong. I am more thank okay with what is happening. Apart from the fact that it has shaken things up and made things considerably more interesting than before, I have been wanting to rejigger my life - and this should be some good impetus.

The scary part now is that they just might want to keep me, business-as-usual. I figured they won't need all 4 of us in the back - and so obviously the temp (me) would have the target on his back - but that is wrong thinking. The more I think about it, the more screamingly obvious it is that the manager would be the first to go. I figured if they did want someone in my position, they would have to give it to one of the permanent employees - in particular there is one 20 year guy who has the same title as me in a slightly different part of the op. - but he has already been offered his package. He's moving on.

I kinda just want a couple of good recommendations and outta there - and at first I was sure that's what would happen - but dammit they may have plans for me.



:facepalm:
 
If I had any sense, I would be desperately clinging to that job. It pays really well. The chances are almost zero I could find a comparable full-time job for close to the same money.

But I have been having trouble with the full-time concept and have been thinking I would like to, as I say, rejigger. Maybe do a couple of part-time things. Maybe there would be less of a feeling of being in jail.

I don't know. Maybe there is just no winning this thing.
 
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