Bye Bye Job

[frenchbuck]

Well, I just got notified this week that the job I have held for 17 years will be taken over by a senior co-worker. This is a government job where bumping is allowed. I will then have to bump a lower class co-worker out of his job. It has the domino effect. Some people may say that " Oh well, you still have a job" and this may be true, however, it still creates a whole crap load of anger and resentment among co-workers. The job you can bump into must be lower than the one you had so there is always a huge cut in pay involved.

Well I'll tell you this. Unless you have ever been in this situation, it sucks really bad. I don't want to do this to my co-worker but if you don't, the unemployment will refuse to pay you benefits. Basicaly they say you have refused a job offer. Then they wonder why disgruntled employees come back to the workplace fully loaded with payback time! The only one I can bump is of the Gothic culture and has spoken to me about firearms before. He has also blown his top at work before and has a very short fuse! Three more years and I could have retired. Now I can work everyday and wonder if I may make the 6:00 news!

[M99ER]

deleting

[Sidekick]

They laid off 42 people where I work earlier this week. It didn't reach me but it sure makes me nervous to see stuff like that happen. We're fast approaching a bare minimum staffing level.

[Bayrat]

Unless you have ever been in this situation, it sucks really bad.

That's why I left a Long Island county level job back in 1983. Local ecomomy was in the crapper from years of the aerospace industry drying up. County-wide cut-backs had been going on in all departments for a couple of years and it wasn't looking like it would get better ....... ever.

Since I was the only one with my civil service job title, there was no one else to bump. That's when it realy sucks !!!!

I saw the writing on the wall and had time enough to get set up to start my own business.

By a year later the entire department I had been in was compleatly gone.

Bayrat.

[Cindi]

FB, I would talk to the guy beforehand and let him know how lousy you feel about it, after all the same thing that is happening to him will be happening to you.

[Twanger]

I agree Cindi - and remember frenchbuck, it's the company putting you in this position. You need to make that clear to the guy as well. It's not like you're doing this on your on initiative... you're being forced to do it.

[ncboman]

I saw the writing on the wall and had time enough to get set up to start my own business.


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[Bayrat]

:D

Yup, rusty ones full of worms !

How'd you know what business I went into ???

Bayrat.

[Sabre]

Had to do it every year {bumping} at layoff time when I worked for the railroad. No big deal. Life goes on and if that's the worst you have to go through you've led a charmed life.

[frenchbuck]

Thanks for the advice folks. Maybe its not a bad ideal. Sabre, I wish that this was the worst I had in my charmed life but that is not the case. It is also not the first time I've lost a job. I know first hand of what it is like to ask for help from a food pantry and that is something I would not wish on anybody. Charmed life or not!

[Bill Mc]

I always felt like that jobs were like the poines in the Pony Express. You just have to get off and get a new one after awhile.