Work Reform @lemmy.world Toneswirly @lemmy.world 1y ago

Got laid off today.

Whole Maryland office is being "consolidated" with Austin. They offered to move us to Austin if we want. How fucking generous.

Assholes at the top are the reason they're losing money, production as far as I can tell was quite lean and putting out lots of product. They're just gonna lop an arm off and hope it works out, and fuck the rest of us now out of a job cause they can't balance overhead.

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Obviously too late now, but the move to Austin would have taken a long time, had you thought of accepting the move and in the meantime starting an intense job search in Maryland? That way if you found nothing you at least still had a backup plan in Austin and you weren’t fully out of the job.
- Yeah. More people need to be comfortable gaming the system like this. They do it to us so there's no reason not to do it right back (but double check your contracts!)
- Agreed. OP, I'm sorry this has happened to you. I wish you the best.
  
  For others in the future, a crappy 1 room "extended stay" hotel might cost more for housing temporarily, but would likely be more money in your pocket at the end of the month than unemployment. Getting a job is much easier if you have a job already.
  
  Do you guys and the people who upvoted you not have friends and family? I'm baffled by the nonchalant suggestion that someone pick up their life and move across the country thousands of miles from anyone they know, on what is more or less the whims of strangers.
  
  Or just don't move and use the time to job hunt
- That's a very good idea. Hopefully I'll never need it, but great advice.
- Yeah but like… then you have to be in Texas. These days, that’s getting to be a non-starter with more and more people.
I might consider relocating someplace nice, but an overhyped, overpriced city in one of the reddest red states? Kindly fuck off.
Staying away from austin is the right choice. Its all hype. That city was dope 10 years ago and has gotten shittier every day.
- “Keep Austin weird” died decades ago.
  
  It only ever was weird in the most middle class, white, liberal definition of the word.
- I'm trying to get up out of this bitch.
- This is the second time I've heard this in the past few weeks.
My company says we don't sell 30 million in flooring in next 6 months we might have to close our doors. But in the next two weeks they are flying all the branch managers to Chicago, putting in a fancy hotels and wine and dine them. They already did the same thing with the sales reps. I asked If they couldn't have these meetings on Zoom. My boss didn't like that.

Fucking new CEO one of those guys who last 5 companies he ran them into the ground. Already does weekly Zoom meetings I see no reason company that apparently running out of money had to close 20 branches suddenly as all the money to throw around wining and dining upper management.
- Vulture Capitalism, the C level and board are somehow sucking all the money out of the company before they bounce.
  
  I know I see writing on the wall.
- TBF if I was forced to move to Texas, Austin would be the only city I'd accept. But begrudgingly. OP still did the right thing, though.
Name and shame if you want.
Sorry.

I strongly recommend not browsing these types of threads for a few days/weeks.

Try to avoid the doom scrolling.
Not sure what industry you're in, but the Maryland state government is hiring in quite a few agencies across a swath of different jobs at the moment (I have family in state government who see these things and talk about them).

Not great pay compared to the private sector in many cases, but the benefits are decent, and you can probably pick up a job fairly quickly that can tide you over while you work toward the next thing you want.
- Is the state gov paid out of state funds or also affected if the federal gov goes into another lockdown?

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