I GOT LAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lady Effingbroke]

...off.

[deucemagnet]

1. YAAAAaaay....aww!

:(

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. lol, really.

I'm ok. I have plenty of soap and toilet paper. I think I'll survive. :7

[TK421]

sorry....

:( it's really getting scary out there

[Lady Effingbroke]

4. Yeah, it is.

To be honest, I worked in a dying industry (petrochemical) - but aren't they all these days?

And I'm only one of thousands - just today.

[ThomCat]

3. Damn... That hurt.

:(

I was so looking forward to a fun or happy post.

I'm so sorry. I'm sure you wish you had something fun or happy to post. :hug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. Thanks, ThomCat.

I'll be alright. I worked in a chemical plant, but I have a health care degree I can fall back on. I might as well go into the medical industry. I think that will be one of the last to go.

I am a long-time lurker, but I enjoy reading your posts. You're one of the good guys. :hug:

[ThomCat]

14. Thank you.

:hug:

That's nice to hear.

I hope you can can find something good in health care without too much of a hassle or delay. I'm glad you have that to fall back upon. :)

[JVS]

5. How else could you maintain your title as Lady Effingbroke?

Thanks for not using the namechange amnesty to make it into something ridiculous.

[Lady Effingbroke]

8. I retained my name for just such an occasion!

Once effing broke, always effing broke, I say - and I have a large and growing family. Sadly. :P

[Danger Mouse]

7. Are you okay?

:hug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. I'm fine.

I have a pretty nice chunk of change in savings, and my employer gave me a decent severance package. I also went out today and stocked up on soap, toilet paper, and mac-n-cheese.

I have no outstanding debt (no credit card debt and I infrequently drive a cheap old car that is very reliable) and can quite easily live like a hermit in my cheap apartment for at least a year between my savings and whatever unemployment I'm able to draw.

I'm an urban survivalist!

:hug:

[Mollis]

18. You had some good preparation

for a "just in case." Thats good :)

[Mollis]

9. Me, too

:(

[XemaSab]

11. Where did you work?

:shrug:

[Mollis]

13. It's a small business

there was only 3 of us...now there are 2 of them.
Called Power Up Techs. Computer store.
Hopefully I can go back if business picks up.

[Lady Effingbroke]

16. Sorry to hear that, Mollis.

I hope you can go back to work there soon.

[Mollis]

17. Thanks

and I hope you can find something soon :hug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

20. I think I'll be ok. I really hope things work out for you as well.

[Lady Effingbroke]

15. I'm not sure if you are posting to me or Mollis, but I worked for

a chemical plant.

It was a decent paying job for someone like me who has had limited opportunity for education.

But I'll survive. I have a little health care degree(medical lab tech) that I got a couple years ago that I can fall back on.

[XemaSab]

10. Bummer

:(

[Lady Effingbroke]

19. Yep.

oh, well.

I'm staying positive about it. I figured I was going to be one of the first to be let go, as I was a junior employee.

[Generic Brad]

21. I just got a raise

Immediately followed by a pay cut which means I now make less than I did before my raise! For real.

[Lady Effingbroke]

25. That sucks. A reverse raise - a lower?

That's kind of what the company I worked for did. They gave raises last November before the economy crashed where I live and then started backpedaling like crazy, ending up with, well, giving a bunch of people the boot.

[Generic Brad]

31. My pay cut goes into effect the same day as my raise

How's that for irony?

[kentauros]

22. I'm sorry to hear that

:hug:

What kind of chemical plant work did you do? I ask because if you want to stay in the field, the pipeline industry is still doing well. Mainly for LNG as that's what most are pumping anymore and there are some huge fields in NE Texas/NW Louisiana that companies are going back to, to pull more out.

I work for a small company, too, but we are staying afloat by getting international contracts in addition to the few domestic ones. We've only had one put their contract on hold due to the economy. The rest are going through with their plans.

If you're not interested in getting back into it, I'm sure you can find something in the Texas Medical Center. They only employ about 70,000 people ;)

[Lady Effingbroke]

23. Health care is one of the last industries that is hiring people,

and we live in a good city for it.

I think I'm done with the petrochemical business. Might as well go where the remaining jobs are.

I'm glad to hear you're doing ok. I hope your company can hang in there until things get better. It looks like it's going to be a while.

:hi:

[kentauros]

27. Yeah, Houston is big on medical fields, including research.

If you can do that, look at what the universities have available :)

The owner of the company I work at is a Civil Engineer and a wheeler-dealer. He's from Trinidad and seems good at getting contracts across the world. Although I did overhear him one day relating some phonecall to our receptionist/office-manager about another foreign contract. They said they'd meet him at the airport with armed guards for the duration of his stay. He didn't even hesitate to decline that job!

I still feel that Houston will weather this better than most cities. I think we're more diversified and that the oil bidness will go on for decades, partly because plastics will be in higher demand than fuel eventually, and they still have the proper equipment for that field. Luckily, plastics can be made from sources other than drilled oil, too.

[Lady Effingbroke]

28. Yeah, no matter how bad things are here, sadly, it is much worse elsewhere.

The awl bidness ain't goin' nowhere for a while, it's just going through a severe contraction.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. Baylor College of Medicine has canned LOTS of people.

In the last couple of years. Their president has run it into the ground, run up a huge deficit when they had a surplus, and basically did everything wrong. My friend was canned in 2006 and he was not taking home enough to pay the bills with. That job was a complete waste of his talents.

He had a doctor's excuse preventing him from lifting more than 20 pounds, and they ignored that!!
A Medical School!!!

:wtf: :grr:

[Robeson]

24. Dang, I hate to hear that...

...if it's any consolation, you're always one of my favorites - which I realize means squat...:hug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

26. Thanks! I appreciate it!

I tend to lurk and post infrequently. It's nice to be noticed and remembered.

FWIW, I enjoy reading your posts, too - I have been registered here since 2004 (has it been that long already?)

:hug:

[deepthought42]

29. *hugs*

So did my boyfriend a few weeks ago. He is getting unemployment now and still looking for a job.

Best of luck... :) :hug:

[New Earth]

32. me too

last week :(