5. I'm about as close to me as I can get. Another of my former
co-workers was let go last week. It was a nice small company. I have a feeling that in the next few weeks it will be gone altogether. Good product, good pricing, saturated market and no-one is buying.
He and his co-workers were told last week that their office will be closing at the end of May. He'll get a month of severance pay. My sister was relieved that he wasn't let go immediately.
no big layoff, just a little at a time over the past 3 months. They don't do it all at once or all of a sudden so it doesn't make the news. They are not technically fired. They are considered a reduction in workforce and have 3 months to find another job in the company. There just aren't that many jobs in the company. It's a sneaky way to get rid of people. One person was 3 months from retirement :-( It's tense at work. Any day it could be me.
My BF and I both fell out of the middle class back in the early 1990s. Never gotten a decent job since then. Education and skills are a big disadvantage.
...has gone to a 4-day work week to avoid lay-offs for now. They are a supplier to the airline industry so they will probably get to lay-offs before long. My brother works there. He has a small farm out in the sticks where he raises a huge garden and there is all kinds of wild game. His electric bill runs about $60/month, so he can live very cheaply if need be. I live at a lake and I could survive on fish if I had to. My freezer is currently packed! I usually swap him fresh fish for vegetables. A good deal for both of us.
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