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Sound Familiar? I got canned again. But I'M BACK BABY!
Yep, firing #4 today. Let go from my SysAdmin job in Arlington.
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02-26-2009, 11:07 AM | #2 |
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Who do you work for? Donald Trump?
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02-26-2009, 11:13 AM | #3 |
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sorry to hear...
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02-26-2009, 11:14 AM | #4 |
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Sorry to hear it, Todd.
That's the problem with being so good at your job (i.e., commanding top-$$$). You're the first one to get the axe. You're so good, they can't afford you. That's the way I'd look at it. |
02-26-2009, 11:17 AM | #5 |
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I got laid off about 9-10 years ago. I found out by accident (the CEO dropped off some signed checks to me, and mistakenly left the layoff plans on the bottom).
So I had a 4 month headstart to steal as many office supplies as I could. I stole so much I still have some to this day. The funny thing is, they refilled my position within 2 years, and 8 years after I got laid off I was rehired as that person's supervisor. So ... the moral of the story is: Steal as many supplies as you can before you go, and it will all work out in the end. |
02-26-2009, 11:19 AM | #6 |
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What the fu...
Maybe you just need to live the life of a hobo, traveling by freight train with your belongings in a polka dot cloth tied to the end of a stick. |
02-26-2009, 11:25 AM | #8 |
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That really sucks. Are you okay with health coverage for a while?
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02-26-2009, 11:34 AM | #9 | |
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Did you run over a family of black cats in a previous life or something? I had a very similar thought to the above SI
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02-26-2009, 11:45 AM | #10 | |
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I'll keep my ears open for any positions in the area.
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02-26-2009, 12:01 PM | #11 |
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02-26-2009, 12:53 PM | #12 |
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Sorry to hear about this, Toddzilla.
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02-26-2009, 06:58 PM | #13 |
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Thats too bad to hear, did you work for the County?
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02-26-2009, 07:05 PM | #14 |
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Ugh, awful news Todd.
Hope something comes around quickly for you. I'll keep my eyes/ears open around here. /tk
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02-26-2009, 07:25 PM | #15 |
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Dude that sucks. Well at least ya have time to focus on Fantasy Baseball.
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02-26-2009, 07:43 PM | #16 |
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Become a school bus driver..The only way to get fired is through sheer ineptitude.
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02-26-2009, 07:50 PM | #17 |
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02-26-2009, 08:07 PM | #18 |
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Sorry Tood to here that. Hope everything works out. ............I am nervous myself after I got a late afternoon outlook meeting invite for me to meet with my Director tomorrow morning and it did not have any meeting title which never happens. I was just saying in the other thread about how I "thought" my job was relatively safe since I was the SME at my place. I guess they could just decide to axe the whole team which is apossibility. Crap.
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02-26-2009, 08:44 PM | #19 |
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gah...fuck...sorry to hear Toddzilla
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02-26-2009, 09:29 PM | #20 | |
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I guess that's a good way of looking at it. Sorry I didn't post it earlier, but I'm sorry to hear about your bad luck. I realized that post might come off...insensitive. At least when one door closes, there are more that will open up. I left the Army last year and had been in for 13 years. There were still a bunch of different opportunities out there and I'm doing a lot better than I was back then. Who knows? Maybe this job just wasn't meant for you to be there long and something better will come along. |
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02-27-2009, 04:58 AM | #21 |
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The economy is making me nervous about ever getting out of the military...
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02-27-2009, 11:01 PM | #22 |
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Update - updated and got my resume up on Monster (which I don't like so much, but it's busy) and got pinged twice tonight, one from a company in the top 50 to work for.
Fingers crossed |
02-27-2009, 11:10 PM | #23 |
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sorry to hear about this. hope things work out with those pings!
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02-28-2009, 08:35 AM | #24 | |
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Todd, I know a recruiter based in Reston that has done really well for us (on the employer side) -- would you like me to get you two in contact with each other?
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07-26-2009, 12:10 PM | #25 |
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w00t!
Got hired this past week while on vacation to work as a SysAdmin at a small but growing wed-development company. The job hits all my sweet spots - great people, relaxed atmosphere, cool technology. I'm as happy as can be. |
07-26-2009, 03:05 PM | #26 | |
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Congrats! Staying in the same location? |
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07-26-2009, 03:05 PM | #27 |
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07-26-2009, 08:47 PM | #28 |
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Great news, Todd!!!
/tk
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07-27-2009, 09:40 AM | #29 |
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Great news, Toddzilla.
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07-27-2009, 09:42 AM | #30 | |
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you were unemployed for 5 months and just went on vacation? awesome. vacation from what? =)
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07-27-2009, 11:27 AM | #31 |
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LAWL - thank you everyone for your support! I'll try my best to not have to update this thread for another 3-4 years or so
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07-27-2009, 11:48 AM | #32 |
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Grats, again
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07-27-2009, 02:20 PM | #33 |
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what the hell is "wed-development" anyway? I hope you haven't gone into wedding planning because that is the bottom of the barrel!!
*Disclaimer* No offense to anybody in the business of wedding planning...I was just making a joke and have no issue with that line of work. |
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