Likely Getting Canned This Week - Keep Me In Your Thoughts!

Excellent advice.

And start saving up for the epic upper deck shit you should drop on your last afternoon in the office.

 

Unless you're certain you've got employment waiting for you and you're absolutely certain you'll never have contact with anyone associated with what's going to be a former employer, that's one of the dumber things you could do.

If you can stomach to do it, take the high road.

 

Luckily when I got laid off I was just a stringer so I didn't face the financial hardship that everyone else on this thread has faced.

I am very emotionally attached to my job, so I sent the EE an e-mail telling him that I understood what was going on in the business and this was going to be just as hard on the readers and the other staff as it was on me.

There were a lot of tears shed in the next couple of weeks, but that e-mail really made me feel better. He sent me back a nice response and I got my job back nine months later.

Taking the big-girl pill was one of the smartest things I've done in my life.

 

Definitely. I also clear out my personal effects/work-related products each Sunday. By Monday each week, I'm bare and ready for canning...

 

I just hope they don't jerk you around and dump you on the last day before the new contract kicks in.

 

Me neither but they'll have to find me...

because I am taking 8 vacation days before the deadline and they have to give me written notice.

Let's just say the battery on my cell phone could die at that point.

 

But don't you have a charger for your...

Oh, I see what you did there .

 

This is awesome.

 

I don't have the mean streak in me that I had back then. When you get laid off, and you've already been in a generally bad mood for a couple of years, it's going to be all blind fury at first. I really am shocked there's not more violence with the way people are thrown over a sawhorse in the business. It's going to take more than a slow escort to the door from a 63-year-old security guard.

 

Yes, I hate to say it as well but I'm shocked we don't have more instances of it.

So many companies (and I'm a pro-business a$$ backwards conservative Republican) seem to have no decency on giving workers enough notice or any information in advance that their lives are about to change dramatically.

These companies and managers demand blind loyalty, often get angry when you find a better job and give a decent amount of notice but the second you are out the door, you are usually told to give up your key card and leave immediately.

 

Nicely done. You may also want to run down the battery on your home phone as well (if applicable).
For what it's worth, getting canned from my first job was the best thing that ever happened to me in my career. New boss had come in and made my life a living hell. My only regret is that when I left his office, he offered his hand to shake. I said "No thanks" and collected my stuff. In hindsight I should have manned up and shaken his hand.
When I won some awards at my next shop, I was thinking how cool it would be to find that former boss, show him the awards and say, "You thought I couldn't get it done. Explain this." But I didn't, in part because said boss was himself canned a few months after he canned me (gotta love karma sometimes), and because the best revenge is to live well and do well elsewhere.

 

Quite possibly the most hopeless phrase ever uttered. Jesus, she's probably still thinking men are nothing more than walking ATMs.

Sorry to hear of your unfortunate circumstance.