Oldandtired
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- #141
Having been downsized from a family business where the wife of the President, who worked part time i.e. less than 20 hours a week and made full time wages and a President who's only function in the business was to enter time cards on a spreadsheet which could have been accomplished by an $8/hour employee all the while making $2k/week, I would have to say that I would prefer a country where no one can get laid off or fired. But, that is because at the moment, I'm ticked off and quite frankly, I find it very difficult not to laugh when I am told the President and his wife are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
Immie
Yep...and they got what they deserved.
Capitalism at work.
Thoise companies that laid off 75% of their employees while the owners vacationed in France? What chance in hell do they have of securing top talent when the market rebounds.
Capitalism at work. We reap the rewards, we suffer the consequences...of PERSONAL DECISIONS.
I would have it no other way...and I was 23 and homeless...just lost my job...a mere 28 years ago.
Truthfully, I would have it no other way either. I don't know what will happen to my previous employer. Part of me wishes them a quick turn around, the other part says, I'd love to drive by their shop in three months and see them out of business. But, it was a risk I took when I went to work for a small family business.
Immie
As I did 28 years ago...you lost your job and you resent your employer...but you blame yourself for taking the position to begin with. And that is why you will be successful....as you now will not make the same mistake again...as you blame your decision making.
Others, such as those responding on this thread, will continue to make the same mistakes as they do not see it as their mistake..they see it as the employers greediness.....
And next time they will HOPE that their employer is not as greedy....and if they are, again, it is not their fault...and they will blame business owners all over again...and, of course, be unemployed again.