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Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Being Unemployed < Reply # 54 on 10/25/2008 6:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Got some news today when I picked Shael up from work. Apparently the IP High Command issued a simple letter stating that because of the economic problems currently ongoing, the demand for our paper is dropping off which means that one, possibly both, paper machines will be idled which means layoffs. This also comes at a time when the recovery boiler developed a hole in it's internal piping which means shutdown. What does that mean to me? Well, if there is a layoff, the senior people that are qualified for my job can 'bump' me out of that job and take it for themselves leaving me hitching a ride for the unemployment line. What does THAT mean to me? Well, everything that I have worked for in the past three almost four years ago will probably be repossessed or foreclosed upon as we'll probably only be getting $405-425 a week. When you're used to bringing home $600-720 a week, that's a lot of money lost. So, even though back in 2005, i took the 'sure thing' job, i'll probably still end up with the short, smelly end of the stick. It's amazing how fast you can go from top of the pile to riding your lambofeeties out to the gate. i don't want to panic, but i'll tell you, that feeling is creeping into the pit of my stomach.
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Being Unemployed < Reply # 55 on 10/25/2008 7:06 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | All we can do is wait. That's it. Life is a waiting game. I'm in the same boat as Sam...some bitch from the warehouse, because she's got two more years in the mill than I do, can and probably will take my job. What's worse for me though...this was my last resort. I honestly have no where else to go. I've burned too many bridges in my last few jobs and there's no way I'm going to go work with my sister with the retards, so...if I'm gone for good, then I end up riding unemployment as long as it goes, then, trying to figure out what comes next. I didn't make a contingency plan because, like Sam, I thought this would be the last job I ever had. My step dad had 38 years there, my uncle Kenny, 41 years, I figured I had at least another 10 or 20 in me before my ankles and knees give out. I didn't think IP would welch on the deal. They've been in Ticonderoga since 1888, 120 years. Hell, IP started in Ticonderoga, then became what they are today. What really frosts my ass is that they don't care, they don't care that Ticonderoga made them, most of the paper they market now is based on experimentation that was done on Number 7 and Number 8 paper machines over the last 50 years. When they want to see if something works, they come to Ticonderoga, because if we can't make it work on those machines, it won't work anywhere, period. Anyway, I'm tired, pissed off at the company and the union for not fighting harder for us, so here's where we are. I just want to go to the manager and ask, "What next?" Maybe Monday. Shael
[last edit 10/25/2008 7:12 AM by Shael - edited 1 times]
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