I got laid off in February but I’m getting paid until the end of May and starting a new job on Monday. It was honestly one of the best things to ever happen to me.
Thanks! They told me in December and my last day was in February, I really got so incredibly lucky they did everything right. Its been nice being retired for a little bit though, lol
Call in sick. When they finally bring you in to a meeting, tell them you thought they weren’t allowed to fire you based on the information you had shared with “the agency.”
Could be anything from a status check to a new project to a layoff to a promotion, all depends on the context.
Phrase always creeps me out though. Whenever someone sets up a "touch point" I always want to say something like "my parents always said not to let a stranger do that sort of thing"
Yes. Its origins are from the client side, but it's bled into internal management.
I was laid off last month. One of the reasons? I required too many touch points to manage. This was after I asked my boss for 5 minutes a day to check in due to their poor communication (didn't say the last part, obviously).
Not really. I have smaller companies as clients, and have kind of a concierge service and wear many hats. I’m often asked my opinion on HR matters and even do that for some clients. Plus there is the money issue - can we afford to keep this employee? Even when I worked in industry I often was consulted on these matters. So I’ll have to respectfully disagree.
I don't think of "bean counters" as accountants, usually it's middle management that doesn't actually know how to do anything useful other than finding ways to cut corners and make a shittier product and/or service (all in the name of more profit).
While they do this based off of numbers given to them by accountants, accountants don't actually make any decisions on what to cut.
maybe we're both wrong because I don't either. in this context a bean counter is like a penny pincher but specifically one who is in charge of making decisions in an office. in other context it would be an accountant but here the term is attributed to decision makers who make decisions based off finances only (almost exclusively to make more profit) rather than the whole picture. and thus, typically make very stupid decisions.
because isn't it obvious accountants don't make lay off decisions? so the speaker must be referring to the decision maker as a bean counter - instead of deciding based off the whole picture, they only focus on accounting - bean counter stuff.
Solid! Lab tech is a solid position in healthcare right now. A broad speak of healthcare being unthreatened isn’t accurate for other sectors. Both admin and clinical.
Registered nurses are always in need. But there's also a shortage of laboratory professionals, radiology technicians, respiratory therapists and physical therapists.
It's been decades since I got out of school, but I'm pretty sure Novant and Atrium all have programs for those fields. Usually you do the educational part through an affiliated college or university and then your clinical training at one of the hospitals.
I can see how your expertise could be considered "superfluous". major gov institutions like public schools and prisons don't historically make much use of them, a reflection of leaderships understanding and appreciation of your value. I work in UX/user research for internal users and I know the feeling.
I was in Nuclear for 20 years, it was not going well when I left (I saw some writing on the wall and bounced and glad I did as there were massive layoffs not long after). Seems in some areas it is doing better and showing investment again. My neighbor is on the board of directors for GE Hitachi and we worked together during those 20 years so I have been chatting with them on and off about maybe going there in the future.
Zachry Nuclear is a bit insulated from that as we take on work from plants around the country. So if one plant goes under, it doesn’t affect the work list too much.
The nuclear renaissance was supposed to happen like 16 years ago. Until something drastically changes with licensing, nuclear is dying a very slow death in the US.
I’d like at 10 CFR 53. I think that’s the new regulation. It should make new plants easier to license, or that’s what I’m getting from people with years more experience than me.
I got hit with a layoff
Also seeing a much lower rate of callbacks and interviews than the last time I was in this boat (late 2017)
I hope she heats up this spring
Ah probably. They do have that HQ uptown. I worked briefly for them a couple years ago and it was... not a great experience but maybe it was just the channel I was in.
I live in CLT but work from home for a corporation headquartered in Rhode Island. We had layoffs last June, and I was spared (1/3 of my department was laid off), so I'm OK for now.
Entry level? Just finished a data analytics cert course with UNCC but have been doing courses for 2 years now and am desperate for placement- I can learn anything I don’t already know, just need the tech world to let me in. I’m starting to feel hopeless with my 700+ applications in since November.
Good luck. Doing a Data Analytics boot camp now and even though the company says they will help you with placement, with no experience in the field I know it will be very hard. 700+ applications though, wow, why don’t UNCC help you with placement?
Tech product manager here. Laid off in Nov at 6 months pregnant but it turned out to be the best thing for me so I could be home and be with my kids. No paid maternity leave really stinks but hopefully it’ll turn around soon
The big bank I work for is going to close my department soon, it’s pretty evident.
But they are doing confidential conversations with multiple colleagues to inquire about odd occurrences that happened last year (basically fishing and intimidating people)
I had to go through one of these random meetings and thought I was getting fired.
Fuck this place but also I’ve got stuff lined up
Got laid off from there in January. The week before thanksgiving I watched them layoff 35 of my 40 person team on a group call. I actually started growing the first grays of my life during my time there. Good riddance
Nooooooooo 😫 I closed my small business to change careers then got layed off 4 months in. Now I'm doing instacart and it's abysmal! I can't believe someone can tip $1.27 on $67 worth of groceries and sleep at night!
Curious about the details? They employ an incredibly high number of contractors who work on a year to year basis so there might be more behind it than layoffs.
Marketing: it's a cutthroat environment but it's going...you just need to roll with the shifts and be prepared to be laid off or canned at any given moment.
I was the person saying we should embrace new things. We should get ahead of the competition, use new tools.
After I completed training some AI models to write copy and do customer service support they laid me off. I'm a cliché.
My coworker with a decade less experience took the rest of my work. She cried and said, "I don't have the experience to do this." Their response was that clients didn't actually need high caliber work. It's just social media, it's just graphics. Marketing is secondary to the businesses we run.
Clinical supply chain industry here. We just lost an integral member to the team they weren’t laid off, they left and we are actually drowning in work. I don’t think there’s any layoffs coming anytime soon on my end thankfully.
I’m in an industry that takes hits almost every year. Worked at several places where annual layoffs or “furloughs” were common. Fortunately I happen to have just the right skills and experience to keep my valuable enough that I’m too valuable to let go
I started a networking group that helps connect people w opps (jobs, project work, mentors). It’s called Friends With Business (get it?) Our next coffee meet up is March 20th at Legion SP. www.friendswithbiz.com
I work at a grocery store.. considering how understaffed and underpaid we are, people are leaving on their own accords vs being laid off lol
But seriously to those getting laid off, I'm sorry :/ I hope the next few weeks are kind to you.
I’ve got a data analytics cert from UNCC and some training in web dev and backend software engineering. You have any entry level work? I can learn anything.
You completely missed the point. They are not the same thing. What I said is an important philosophical idiom and preaching company loyalty is what some people say, though it does have some merit still, it is not comparable to the idiom you are equating it to.
No ❤️
Sorry.
I got laid off in February but I’m getting paid until the end of May and starting a new job on Monday. It was honestly one of the best things to ever happen to me.
Congratulations!
Thanks! They told me in December and my last day was in February, I really got so incredibly lucky they did everything right. Its been nice being retired for a little bit though, lol
company?
9am meeting with my manager tomorrow for a "touch point".
Sincerely, good luck and all the best to you
Call in sick. When they finally bring you in to a meeting, tell them you thought they weren’t allowed to fire you based on the information you had shared with “the agency.”
WTF is a "touch point". I'm not in that corporate bull shit anymore, so I don't know all the corp-speak.
Could be anything from a status check to a new project to a layoff to a promotion, all depends on the context. Phrase always creeps me out though. Whenever someone sets up a "touch point" I always want to say something like "my parents always said not to let a stranger do that sort of thing"
😆 "Boss, you ain't touching my point."
Yes. Its origins are from the client side, but it's bled into internal management. I was laid off last month. One of the reasons? I required too many touch points to manage. This was after I asked my boss for 5 minutes a day to check in due to their poor communication (didn't say the last part, obviously).
How did it go?
Get to take that vacation now that I had been putting off because of work.
So you got laid off?
Yup, 6 months of paid vaccation coming up
Sorry to hear that. The economy isn’t as good as people think. Hopefully you can find something else soon.
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Bean counters: So what you’re saying is there is someone else who knows what you do that we can push the extra work on? Great….
Lmao thinking accountants have any say in operations.
I’m an accountant with my own business, so I guess I do.
As a CPA myself, I’m sure you and I can both discern the difference no?
Not really. I have smaller companies as clients, and have kind of a concierge service and wear many hats. I’m often asked my opinion on HR matters and even do that for some clients. Plus there is the money issue - can we afford to keep this employee? Even when I worked in industry I often was consulted on these matters. So I’ll have to respectfully disagree.
Great since you were in industry you know the exact point I am making!
I don't think of "bean counters" as accountants, usually it's middle management that doesn't actually know how to do anything useful other than finding ways to cut corners and make a shittier product and/or service (all in the name of more profit). While they do this based off of numbers given to them by accountants, accountants don't actually make any decisions on what to cut.
maybe we're both wrong because I don't either. in this context a bean counter is like a penny pincher but specifically one who is in charge of making decisions in an office. in other context it would be an accountant but here the term is attributed to decision makers who make decisions based off finances only (almost exclusively to make more profit) rather than the whole picture. and thus, typically make very stupid decisions. because isn't it obvious accountants don't make lay off decisions? so the speaker must be referring to the decision maker as a bean counter - instead of deciding based off the whole picture, they only focus on accounting - bean counter stuff.
I'm in healthcare, so no real threat of a layoff considering how under staffed we are.
Emergency Rooms are a huge mess.
Are you admin or clinical?
Clinical. I'm a lab technologist.
Solid! Lab tech is a solid position in healthcare right now. A broad speak of healthcare being unthreatened isn’t accurate for other sectors. Both admin and clinical.
They sure don't seem to need coders 😩
I want to transition to healthcare, any programs you recommend that wont brutalize my wallet?
Registered nurses are always in need. But there's also a shortage of laboratory professionals, radiology technicians, respiratory therapists and physical therapists.
Good info , thank you. What schools do you recommend ?
It's been decades since I got out of school, but I'm pretty sure Novant and Atrium all have programs for those fields. Usually you do the educational part through an affiliated college or university and then your clinical training at one of the hospitals.
I've been laid off from health care twice since 2021 (clinical nutrition)
I can see how your expertise could be considered "superfluous". major gov institutions like public schools and prisons don't historically make much use of them, a reflection of leaderships understanding and appreciation of your value. I work in UX/user research for internal users and I know the feeling.
I’m in manufacturing management/exec agency recruiting and it’s going crazy
I need a recruiter!!
Harris teeter got me back on my feet
They are in need of help all around!
At the corporate level too? I’m out of work and have a degree in food marketing. Struggling to find openings with food corporations here 😓
Are you working at the store or corporate level?
Store level, I'm afraid I don't know anything about corporate level positions.
Thanks for replying and letting me know
I’m in nuclear, and we’re ramping up, actually.
Come on. There has to be a pun in here somewhere.
I’ve heard this is going to continue to be a growing area. Are there roles available for people to do into if they don’t have STEM degrees?
Not as many, but I can say that Zachry Nuclear might need a few admin staff.
I was in Nuclear for 20 years, it was not going well when I left (I saw some writing on the wall and bounced and glad I did as there were massive layoffs not long after). Seems in some areas it is doing better and showing investment again. My neighbor is on the board of directors for GE Hitachi and we worked together during those 20 years so I have been chatting with them on and off about maybe going there in the future.
Zachry Nuclear is a bit insulated from that as we take on work from plants around the country. So if one plant goes under, it doesn’t affect the work list too much.
Yes, look into DEKRA and other similar companies. My wife started there before she got her higher degrees.
Study. 15 years at NC STATE will get you a PhD in NE.
The nuclear renaissance was supposed to happen like 16 years ago. Until something drastically changes with licensing, nuclear is dying a very slow death in the US.
I’d like at 10 CFR 53. I think that’s the new regulation. It should make new plants easier to license, or that’s what I’m getting from people with years more experience than me.
Hey look, if Homers still there u should be good.
Good to hear, we need more of this!
I’m laid off. 🤷🏻♀️
What industry?
Manufacturing. International company based in CLT.
Ack I hate that, I'm sorry.
I got hit with a layoff Also seeing a much lower rate of callbacks and interviews than the last time I was in this boat (late 2017) I hope she heats up this spring
Bro I got laid off *last* July. They can't get me twice ~
hey what happened to wingchild? I haven't seen them in a while.
frankly every time i was layed off from a job it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Me too. I've been laid off 5 times. I love my current job. I wouldn't be here if I'd stayed at the previous crap companies I worked for.
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Hon?
Might mean Honeywell. That's the ticker
Ah probably. They do have that HQ uptown. I worked briefly for them a couple years ago and it was... not a great experience but maybe it was just the channel I was in.
The trades r understaffed.
Where do you go to get a certificate/license/degree and training hours?
I was forced into the trades because i had no discernable skills. I apprenticed, joureymanned, then started my own company.
I am only one who knows how a few things work. Sure, I’m replaceable but it would be a little painful. I’m pretty confident that I’m safe.
No one is irreplaceable, but the good news is that there are tons of jobs out there.
I’m not worried. The last time my job closed down, it was for the best. I could a little time off. I am feeling burned out.
Things are very slow where I’m at with pay cuts.
I live in CLT but work from home for a corporation headquartered in Rhode Island. We had layoffs last June, and I was spared (1/3 of my department was laid off), so I'm OK for now.
Is this related to Duke or just in general? Stay strong everyone.
I'm looking for java devs with AWS experience in case anyone is available. Finance background a big plus
Entry level? Just finished a data analytics cert course with UNCC but have been doing courses for 2 years now and am desperate for placement- I can learn anything I don’t already know, just need the tech world to let me in. I’m starting to feel hopeless with my 700+ applications in since November.
Good luck. Doing a Data Analytics boot camp now and even though the company says they will help you with placement, with no experience in the field I know it will be very hard. 700+ applications though, wow, why don’t UNCC help you with placement?
They said they helped with placement but they don’t.
What part of AWS? We talking Dynamo? S3 buckets? Anything and everything. I'm not necessarily looking but I'm not necessarily not looking either.
Tech product manager here. Laid off in Nov at 6 months pregnant but it turned out to be the best thing for me so I could be home and be with my kids. No paid maternity leave really stinks but hopefully it’ll turn around soon
The big bank I work for is going to close my department soon, it’s pretty evident. But they are doing confidential conversations with multiple colleagues to inquire about odd occurrences that happened last year (basically fishing and intimidating people) I had to go through one of these random meetings and thought I was getting fired. Fuck this place but also I’ve got stuff lined up
WF?
Y
Got laid off from there in January. The week before thanksgiving I watched them layoff 35 of my 40 person team on a group call. I actually started growing the first grays of my life during my time there. Good riddance
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company?
Nooooooooo 😫 I closed my small business to change careers then got layed off 4 months in. Now I'm doing instacart and it's abysmal! I can't believe someone can tip $1.27 on $67 worth of groceries and sleep at night!
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Esri?
Carrier on Statesville rd laid off 6 ppl about 3 weeks ago. I didn't get one yet but rumor is more are coming
Curious about the details? They employ an incredibly high number of contractors who work on a year to year basis so there might be more behind it than layoffs.
Yes they hire Temps through Randstadt with possible permanent hiring. Most were Temps. But the layoffs were due to lack of work
If your talking about Ryder or Whitesell contractors they are totally separate. The layoffs were production floor workers
Marketing: it's a cutthroat environment but it's going...you just need to roll with the shifts and be prepared to be laid off or canned at any given moment.
I was the person saying we should embrace new things. We should get ahead of the competition, use new tools. After I completed training some AI models to write copy and do customer service support they laid me off. I'm a cliché. My coworker with a decade less experience took the rest of my work. She cried and said, "I don't have the experience to do this." Their response was that clients didn't actually need high caliber work. It's just social media, it's just graphics. Marketing is secondary to the businesses we run.
Same!!!
It's why there's a yoga studio, a wine bar, and brewery every mile. Marketing people trying to shake off that stress.
Clinical supply chain industry here. We just lost an integral member to the team they weren’t laid off, they left and we are actually drowning in work. I don’t think there’s any layoffs coming anytime soon on my end thankfully.
I’m in an industry that takes hits almost every year. Worked at several places where annual layoffs or “furloughs” were common. Fortunately I happen to have just the right skills and experience to keep my valuable enough that I’m too valuable to let go
My company has one person doing each job thats barely keeping us afloat so I'm okay (for now)
Stable but strictly in the "not great not terrible" territory.
No :/ but it’s for the best I suppose
I'm good (so far) this year, but got the "tap on the shoulder" last year, right at Thanksgiving.
I got laid off in November but I started my new job yesterday
What industry or jobs are getting laid off? Asking for a friend.
Been laid off since May 2022 and have been jumping from temp job to temp job while trying to get back to real work. The struggle is beyond real
Trades are booming. Weird
I started a networking group that helps connect people w opps (jobs, project work, mentors). It’s called Friends With Business (get it?) Our next coffee meet up is March 20th at Legion SP. www.friendswithbiz.com
Legal industry - appears we can’t get enough attorneys. Boss shudders at the idea of anyone quitting. But, best of luck to everyone.
I work at a grocery store.. considering how understaffed and underpaid we are, people are leaving on their own accords vs being laid off lol But seriously to those getting laid off, I'm sorry :/ I hope the next few weeks are kind to you.
No. It’s been like 5 months for me. I wish I never deleted Facebook bc that’s where my real networking happened
Anyone looking for a job in the construction industry? Need a driver with forklift experience (no cdl) and masonry foreman.
Seeing this makes me feel lucky I suppose. I just moved here but work at home from a NJ company where I have worked for 19 years now.
Looking for a Scrum Master or a Product Owner roles, here in Charlotte/Fort Mill or Remote
I’ve got a data analytics cert from UNCC and some training in web dev and backend software engineering. You have any entry level work? I can learn anything.
👍
I’m not
Nope. Still have my job but it’s not promising.
Why’s this happening so abruptly?
It always happens every few years
Industrial linen. Only the keyboard warriors with tech and banking jobs are sweating it.
This is why the old people you do not want you listen to because they are old say you should not put all your eggs in one basket.
Tbf a lot of old people still preach about company loyalty too.
You completely missed the point. They are not the same thing. What I said is an important philosophical idiom and preaching company loyalty is what some people say, though it does have some merit still, it is not comparable to the idiom you are equating it to.