Job Losses
It’s been an interesting week. A couple of days ago I found out that almost all of the people at the job I left in March are losing their jobs because their contracts expired and aren’t going to be renewed. Then, just yesterday one of my good friends at my current company was given the option of resigning or being fired because there wasn’t enough money. I also found out that about 80 people got laid off from the company where my dad works this week too.
I knew that the economy was bad, but I assumed that Huntsville was immune to it. Or at least that the government contracted jobs were immune from it. The most alarmnig part of all of it is that the person from my company that lost his job was on the same contract that I’m on. For now things are ok, but I’m still a little shaken. They gave him no warning at all – in the morning everything was ok and around 10 am he went back to his cubicle, quietly packed up his things, and left out the back door. An hour later the owner of the company sent out an email about him leaving the company. It all happened so fast that nobody even knew he had resigned until the email came.
I have a feeling that things are going to get a lot worse with the economy before they get any better.
Posted on September 13th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Sorry your friends lost their jobs. That is pretty scary. Hopefully the economy won’t get much worse.