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Had to turn the heat on & layoff news

November 3rd, 2010 at 09:11 pm

Well, I made it all the way through October with the heat off, which was my goal and last night I turned the heat on. It was 60 in my living room and I had had a bad day medically yesterday, so I wanted the comfort.

I'm keeping the heat on pretty low. When I left the house this morning, it was 64. I put the heat down to 61 and came home to 65. So it wasn't running during the day at least!

Today, my work group & I did a community event where we did yard work on houses owned/lived in by handicapped people. While we were there, the office was getting word of layoffs starting. My group was not affected, but I know plenty of people that were.

We finished the work on 3 houses by 10:30 and went to lunch as a group. $11.00 spent for a sandwich and fries AND a large salad to go (for dinner). From there, we were getting more texts about who was being affected and some of us decided to head to a bar. Of course, conversation turned to the layoffs as we heard more & more, but it was also good to relax with my coworkers. I spent $5.00 on a drink & desert.

I am grateful to have a job and I am not looking forward to seeing some people not be there tomorrow and those that are there, but will not be within the next few weeks.

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2 Responses to “Had to turn the heat on & layoff news”

  1. dmontngrey Says:
    November 4th, 2010 at 04:42 pm 1288888955
    1288888955

    That's the hard part about layoffs that no one ever thinks about - the folks left behind. We went through that at my office a few years ago. The morale around here was awful and no one did anything to address it. The guilt over being one of the ones who stays is almost unbearable. At least it was for me.

  2. miclason Says:
    November 4th, 2010 at 06:03 pm 1288893833
    1288893833

    I remember years ago, at some other job, the Friday stress of knowing SOMEONE was going to be let go... everyone looking at each other, wondering who it'd be, and hoping it wouldn't be you...ugh. The stress was awful. I tried to tell my boss it would have been better if we just identified everyone and made one big cut, than going over 6 months of agony... in the end, one Friday he called me into his office and said> close the door. I was THIS [] close to asking: who are we firing today?... it turned out it was ME! ugh!

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