The Layoff Times, Round 3: Reprint
I'm reprinting this post from a couple of days ago on The Layoff Times in preparation for a follow-up post. This will save you the trouble of clicking over there to get the background info. And, as I'll explain in my follow-up, I no longer plan to regularly update that blog. More to come later today. Note the one change I've made from the original post, boldfacing one phrase:
From The Layoff Times, November 26, 2007:
A new post on this blog.
I. Am. Not. Thrilled.
Yes, I skipped blogging here about Round 2, which started about a year ago. At that time, I was hoping it was a temporary situation that would soon result in a renewed contract. Instead, that layoff period lasted about 4 months (blogged about occasionally on my main blog), ending with a new contract-to-perm job in April of this year. And as far as I knew, I was good to go for the long run.
But during my 8th month on that job, the big project the entire department was focused on for the coming year was scrapped. Most of us in the department were given two weeks to wrap things up; a few were asked to stay on for 6 months to ease the transition while the company tries to sell the scraps of the project to another company. Even fewer were offered transfers to another department, and many declined. Of course, with a layoff comes a nice severance package, so even those who were given two weeks only weren't completely out in the cold for the holidays.
Of course, for those of us who were still contractors, it's a different story. A contractor doesn't get severance. So I suddenly find myself facing a third Christmas shopping season in a row with no income.
Great timing.
For the past few months, I'd no longer felt like life was on hold. I was moving forward again. I was enjoying life again. Now I find myself facing the possibility that I may not have an income again until February. Why? I figure with the holiday season, getting hired won't be very easy for the next few weeks. Assuming things open up a bit more after New Year's, hopefully I can find something pretty quickly. But until then, I feel that despite the fact that I've already had one interview, the odds are pretty slim for the rest of the year given the season. And so instead of enjoying the savings I've built up this year, I'll have to dig into it for simple day-to-day expenses. Not quite what I had in mind.
So, here we go again, dammit. Today is actually Day 6 (or Day 5 if you don't count Thanksgiving Day). Following this post, I'll start the daily rundown of my new Layoff Times, for better or for worse.
All together now:
SIGH.
From The Layoff Times, November 26, 2007:
A new post on this blog.
I. Am. Not. Thrilled.
Yes, I skipped blogging here about Round 2, which started about a year ago. At that time, I was hoping it was a temporary situation that would soon result in a renewed contract. Instead, that layoff period lasted about 4 months (blogged about occasionally on my main blog), ending with a new contract-to-perm job in April of this year. And as far as I knew, I was good to go for the long run.
But during my 8th month on that job, the big project the entire department was focused on for the coming year was scrapped. Most of us in the department were given two weeks to wrap things up; a few were asked to stay on for 6 months to ease the transition while the company tries to sell the scraps of the project to another company. Even fewer were offered transfers to another department, and many declined. Of course, with a layoff comes a nice severance package, so even those who were given two weeks only weren't completely out in the cold for the holidays.
Of course, for those of us who were still contractors, it's a different story. A contractor doesn't get severance. So I suddenly find myself facing a third Christmas shopping season in a row with no income.
Great timing.
For the past few months, I'd no longer felt like life was on hold. I was moving forward again. I was enjoying life again. Now I find myself facing the possibility that I may not have an income again until February. Why? I figure with the holiday season, getting hired won't be very easy for the next few weeks. Assuming things open up a bit more after New Year's, hopefully I can find something pretty quickly. But until then, I feel that despite the fact that I've already had one interview, the odds are pretty slim for the rest of the year given the season. And so instead of enjoying the savings I've built up this year, I'll have to dig into it for simple day-to-day expenses. Not quite what I had in mind.
So, here we go again, dammit. Today is actually Day 6 (or Day 5 if you don't count Thanksgiving Day). Following this post, I'll start the daily rundown of my new Layoff Times, for better or for worse.
All together now:
SIGH.
posted by Dipu @ 11:22 AM
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