Paul
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Wife got laid-off this past Thursday.
Looks like my old Atomics will have to hold-up for another season...:-D
Looks like my old Atomics will have to hold-up for another season...:-D
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Company Layoffs
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Damn, sorry to hear that. Good thing you work for a good stable company like ATT . . .err, what was I saying?
bigbog
Active member
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Ya, looking to get back to FT work as well...
..but IF we get sufficient amount of the natural stuff this Winter, I'll try to give a blow-by-blow account in my off-resort trip reports.....
.using BCA's Trekkers...:roll::smash:
Ya, looking to get back to FT work as well...
..but IF we get sufficient amount of the natural stuff this Winter, I'll try to give a blow-by-blow account in my off-resort trip reports.....
.using BCA's Trekkers...:roll::smash:
Warp Daddy
Active member
Sorry to hear about your wife's situation ---- sure hope things work out for her
Hey as far as Atomics -- hell man they're great i flippin LUV mine !!!
RootDKJ
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that sucks Paul. I hope it works out for you
Paul
New member
Ya, stable as San Andreas.
I like mine for carving on groomers, not too good for much else tho'
She's an EE, shouldn't be too hard to find something better, her last company actually sucked hairy balls.
And thanks all for the well-wishes. Not too concerned at the moment, she already got one offer (turned down, it was pretty crappy) so that's a good sign. I like to think of lay-offs as opportunities. Everytime I got shitcanned, I ended-up with a better job.
That's the way I always looked at it too, though a little less so being the sole income with two young kids.
In the past I've actually wished I was going to get laid off when I heard the rumors going around..
ETA: I was gonna say I would keep my ears open for any EE positions here, but I wouldn't do that to you.
severine
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Sorry to hear the news, but you're right, on to better opportunities. It was a blessing in disguise the last time I was laid off.
EE = ??? electrical engineer?
Last time I checked.
guess it also good be environmental engineer as well?
Could be, but I've never heard that. I'm pretty sure that Paul's wife is the EE that plays with electrons and stuff, not bunny rabbits and waste water (or whatever environmental engineers do).
I haven't a clue either what they do, well actually I do with Sean, he swings a hammer :lol: Has a phD from Carnegie Mellon and lately been swinging a hammer...how's that for over qualified? :lol:
Actually for many years he was the project manager for the Hudson River watershed clean up from all the PCBs GE inadvertently dumped in there. Back then when it got down to the specifics of what he did, I always found myself asking so wtf you do again? :???:
severine
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It's all relative.
drjeff
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My brother, and EE of the Environmental kind, tells me that what he does is pretty much just fly around the country, drink lots of coffee and take samples of dirt and water. Then he tells his company how much $$ it's going to cost them to clean up/get approval for the project.
He stills tells me that his "proudest" moment as an Environmental Engineer was when he was overseeing a sample acquisition project as he called it, where he created a 5 mile traffic jam on the Mass Pike!
FRITOLAYGUY
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I got laid off a few months back pepsico cut 3,600 jobs , they own frito-lay it was hard at first to find a job as good paying , all the other people that got laid off were shooting for the same position so now i had 10times the competition. I eventually got 2 good offers for training management one for home depot which i turned down the other for publix which is like the stop n shop of the south only 10times better, really an unreal company with unreal benefits which is still thriving opening 50stores this year even in these tough times. My father has been a plant manager for the same cable company for 31yrs, charter communications, some of your in Ct,mass, and Vt have them.. Well hes about to get laid off as well, nobody is safe is seems, keep your options open.
If anyone here ever finds themselves looking for employment, I'd be glad to look over a resume or help with one. I work in HR and I've seen plenty o' resumes over the last 9+ years. Feel free to PM me if you ever need help. I can also pass along potential interview questions. :grin:
severine
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You could probably tell me what was so terrible with my resume that after sending 40 of them out this spring, I only got one interview. :???:
Then again, it could be that I was a SAHM and hadn't been in the so-called working world for 18 months at the time.
Then again, it could be that I was a SAHM and hadn't been in the so-called working world for 18 months at the time.
Marc
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My resume only has two lines, 36 pt font-
Name: Marc Moseley
Qualifications: Kicks Much Ass
It's worked so far.
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