[geeks] Laid off blues

John geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Oct 22 17:51:49 CDT 2001


	Count me and my wife as one each. I was at a video streaming company and
they laid off 80% starting with me (Sr. hardware QA) and the Sr. software QA
guy. To this day (11 months later) the bugs I reported my last week are
still there. My wife's dotcom did email. They laid off 95% and then sold
everything off. I guess the last employees were allowed to stay when they
became an entirely different company.

John at Tequies.com


>I guess I can count once. The company went belly up and I was no longer
>needed to support servers that were liquidated. :)
>
>- Rob
>
>On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
>>
>> Okay time for another informal poll.
>>
>> How many of us on this list have been laid of, made redundant, downsized,
>> restructured, or otherwise terminated without cause in the last year?
>>
>> It's been twice for me, and hell it may be a third time before the end of
>> the year (it REALLY sucks when your company is doing VERY well but your
>> partner goes bankrupt thus fucking everything up)
>>
>> Chris Byrne
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
>> Of Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch
>> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 20:46
>> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [geeks] Laid off blues
>>
>>
>> Last Monday. came in from havin a smoke, got called to a meeting, got
>> laid off and sent out of there right on the spot. Well, at least I get
>> my DSL and stuff for 6 more months.That, at least was generous. It was
>> said at the meeting that "The only time DSL-fucking-net get their HR
>> paperwork 100% sqared away was when layin' someone off . they get that
>> much right every time.
>>
>>  Time to make some phone calls, i guess
>> --
>> "So I am not the only one that runs around naked with my Bobba Fett
helment
>> on?
>> Cool"
>> 		-David Smith
>>
>> Gustafson
>>                                                     drobnox at visi.com
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