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That surprises me a little, as that could open them up an age discrimination lawsuit. Similar reason why a company never gives anything but a generic "your position has been eliminated" BS excuse when they kick you to the curb, as saying the 'wrong thing' could lead to a wrongful termination suit. I've been laid off several times, and the only time I got anything other than "your position has been eliminated" was this last employer. I got booted by the IT Vice President directly, he didn't even tell my manager he was going to do it. He was new to the company, and quickly learned the entire company's IT / computing infrastructure was a total disaster waiting to happen (All the corporate data centers world wide had NO backup generators, and many of the PDUs were 30+ years old; application license servers were running on servers so old, the manufacturers could not support them because parts were no longer available; application servers running on OS's so old, the applications could not be upgraded,....) to name just a few WTF??? scenarios. Almost every major incident call we had during my 18 months there, we ran into scenarios like this. So when he booted me, he actually said "your salary is going to be put toward our upcoming Technology Refresh efforts". I said nothing, but my thought was "Really?? And my annual salary isn't even 1% of what all you are going to need to even get started on fixing this mess." I found out a few months later, he got rid of the entire Major Incident team I had built, and handed over the processes I had created to an existing external support vendor that was providing the Service Desk function. Of the 6 total people on my team, I was the only US based person, so likely I made as much as all the 5 others combined, and my initial thought was "ok, they decided to save a little money by shit canning me as the team manager, and give that role to one of my team mates in another low cost geography (eg: cheap labor country). Until a few months later, a couple of my former team mates connected with me on LinkedIn and told me "No, they got rid of the rest of us shortly after you".

 

"I see a light at the end of the tunnel! Oh, wait..... it's a dumpster. And it's on fire. Nevermind. Chugga chugga... choo choo!!!!

 

Shameless plug.
I’m headed to the UK for nearly a month of hiking. Pub to pub! Almost 200 miles total. wainwrights Coast to Coast Trail.

Would love to share a pint with you Personal shoutout with photo given from each stop

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Awesome, safe travels have a pint for us

 

My last day of work they took me out on a stretcher and a cool ride to the hospital. Don’t remember a thing about it , it really sucks having to be forced into retirement. On the bright side I get more time to fu&$ with you guys

 

Don’t sleep with your eyes open. It’s creepy.

 

hoping you will get that job offer

 

have a great time! Love UK….

 

Congratulations! Great accomplishment!

 

Nope, nice thing was my boss never called and asked how I was doing, I would check in periodically, leave a voicemail. They replaced me in six months, never bothered to tell me I was never coming back, some kid took my place. It took me to outright ask if I ever could come back, nope, that was 2 years later. Not really fond of big companies that break themselves up into smaller companies to avoid all the hassle of health insurance, retirement accounts , legal hassles.

 

Yeah, no one called me either. That is until I got the call the day FMLA ended at 12 weeks that I was terminated. That’s okay. Even being depressed, retirement life is better than the stresses of working life.

 

As long as you enjoy the work somewhat, that’s about all you can ask for anymore. Look out for #1 , do good work, be honest,save money and cover your ass

 

I worked at the same company for 36 years.

When I joined we were treated with value. Good pay, good benifits we worked hard for that company. Then mother X started talking about profits and saw us as a draw on the bottom line. But they wanted us to still do the same level of service. Some of the techs have been there 50 years. The new techs leave after 1 or 2 years.



I'm going to stop now.

 

Hey Andy, hope the truck is moving in the right direction, good brakes are nice