I did the job for so long that it feels kind of like a breakup. LoL! Everything's fine one day then you get the shocking news and it just screws up all of your plans.
My first job closed because the guy who owned it was 73 and wanted to retire so he sold all of the equipment and closed his company. He didn't want to leave it to his kids but I might not want to work for a company that was handed down to the original owner's children anyway.
It was a small trucking company. I've heard stories from other drivers about how the kids made their parents' companies bad places to work once they took over it.
It didn't affect how I did my job. It closed right before winter so I got a temporary job driving a snowplow, then when winter was over I got a job driving a milk tanker truck. I quit when I had kids and right now I don't have any plans to go back to work at a company.
Thank you for sharing. The company I work for put up signs basically lying to their customers saying that they are moving to a different location. In reality they are shutting down this location completely and everyone is out of a job. The other location already existed, nothing is being moved. It pisses me off a bit and I feel like just doing nothing at work. It's like working on a ship that's sinking anyway.
Not at all, the owner and I were friends, but he had to sell the business...a golf driving range. I liked it because it was outdoors and the physical work kept me fit. Every job I have had I always did or tried to do my best or better.
I worked for more than one company where I heard the rumors. Usually it was several months of it and a boss denying any truth to them. The rumors always proved to be true. I guess they deny as much as they can to keep a competent work crew going to the end.
Lesson learned. If I was ever in a job where the rumors were going, I would be looking for another job without hesitation.
Absolutely. Thankfully I have other part-time work that will keep the basic bills paid. I'm a little discouraged because I was finally getting ahead financially and it was the job I wanted for now and banking some money slowly was taking away a lot of my stress. Now I'm kind of back where I started in a way. Oh well..it could always be worst. Thank you for sharing your experience.
That was Motorola. They wanted to hire me because all the temps were going to be laid off and they didn't want to lose me. I reasoned that a major layoff was in the near future, and there was no point in accepting a job only to get caught in the company's first major layoff. I was right.
Yes, one of the US military bases on foreign territory that was being turned over to that country's government after almost ninety years of American presence. I was stationed there for the last eight months of US control. I was originally stationed at a different US base in yet another foreign country, I was a few months into a one-year tour. There was a unit on the base that was closing down that needed some more sergeants, so each unit where I was sent two of them. I was one of the sergeants selected from my unit. We transferred to the closure unit, I completed my one-tour there and eventually rotated back to the US.
No but I have family who did. They were required to train their Mexican replacements. They also were not allowed to tell them Mexican worked the pay rate of the American workers or they would be terminated early and loose some of their post employment benefits. The factory was another casualty of NAFTA. I don't know if anyone told the Mex workers about the pay difference or not. I know I would have.
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