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Again, I can see that there are a few people posting here who have never been "let go", "laid off", or just canned. If you ever, ever have, regardless of your age, it's your entire life that is on the line. It's not something some of us take lightly, because we have some pride in paying our bills on time and keeping a roof over our heads.
I'm young still and I've only been with this company a year and a half or so, so when my boss wants to talk with me, I always get a little nervous. I can see it being concerning at first, but it should be something that you leave behind as you grow into the job.
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Again, I can see that there are a few people posting here who have never been "let go", "laid off", or just canned. If you ever, ever have, regardless of your age, it's your entire life that is on the line. It's not something some of us take lightly, because we have some pride in paying our bills on time and keeping a roof over our heads.
Even if you are top notch, you are expendable.
I have never been fired or laid off, but I agree. As someone once said, there are millions of "indispensable" people in the cemetery. One way or another life goes on for the companies that lose even the most important key employee. I have quit jobs a total of 4 times over the last 40 or so years, but always after
accepting a better offer. I have always felt badly when firing someone, but they have always been given plenty of opportunity to improve their performance, with additional mentoring and training, and failed. Those losing their job to layoffs are the most unfortunate, it's happened to several close family members, but then they always ended up better off in the long run.
Not anymore because I get called in the office so much for some bullshickeney shick it's not even funny with my current job. I am literally just in the office now like, 'ummmm, now...why am I here again? Please repeat so you all can hear your stupidity.'
I never feared being called to the bosses office, except one time. We were taking a huge sea plane (200 ft wingspan, 185 foot length, and 2 decks inside) out of the water for a quick mechanical check. Two of us went out in a small line handler boat, to put the wheels onto the plane. One on each side front, and one in the back. Then the plane was hooked to 3 lines and the plane pulled out of the water with a Caterpillar crawler tractor. It was just moving off of the ramp, when one of the wheels broke off, and the plane crashed down. Into the big repair facility, and would not be leaving for Hawaii the next day as scheduled.
Myself, the man manning the boat, and the E6 in charge were relieved of duty while it was investigated. I was home bound with my wife till they found out why. The 3rd day we got a call to report to the Commanding Officers office. When we got there we were informed all investigation of how it happened was being immediately dropped.
The CO told us that when it got to the hanger, it was discovered that one of the hull gas tanks was leaking badly, and when they had filled the plane the fuel it that tank had filled another compartment which was not a tank and with lots of electrical wiring. It was estimated that flying the next flight, that as gas was drawn down it would be flowing back into the tank, exposing wiring and would have blown up about half the way to Hawaii with 44 Vips including some high ranking officers, and a Senate investigating team going to Korea, and 44,000 pounds of important cargo. The CO said he was not going to punish his buddies that had brought the leak to everyone's attention and saved his life as he was the first pilot scheduled to fly the next day. To heck with all the vip's lives that were saved, he was looking out for #1 himself that had his life saved. From that day on, if I needed something I could go to the CO and would get it, and he was always especially friendly with me.
Over the years when called to the boss's office I was never jumped on. Instead I would get a compliment and even promotions. I never hated to go to the boss's office, as I always felt I had nothing to fear, except for that one time in the Navy. Again no problem except that one time in the Navy which I had anticipated problems, but got a real heart felt thank you from the CO.
I do. I used to always have performance issues due to my ADD. It has been taken care of for years now and I've always done well, but I still get nervous every time.
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When I started my career, I nearly worshipped the team leads around me who had five years of experience. Managers were folks I respected and felt nervous around.
28 years later, that has changed.
Nobody below VP level has an office here anymore. We all have cubes or cube-like desks. But since I know where I stand with my manager at all times now, there isn't any anxiety. Constant communication helps smooth the process. Some managers are idiots. Most are not. I try to deal with all of them respectfully and work for the good of the area(s) that I support.
Again, I can see that there are a few people posting here who have never been "let go", "laid off", or just canned. If you ever, ever have, regardless of your age, it's your entire life that is on the line. It's not something some of us take lightly, because we have some pride in paying our bills on time and keeping a roof over our heads.
Even if you are top notch, you are expendable.
This is so true. I was laid off from my last job and completely blindsided by it. A cut needed to be made, but there were people the boss actually complained about not working, but they were kept. I was cut for petty, personal reasons.
I am in a much better company and position now, but when I started it made me nervous when my boss would call me into his office. Early on, I made a joke about it (uh oh...not being fired am I?). He laughed and assured me that is not the case. It doesn't bother me now, but my boss is not the type to be critical or nit-pick and look for mistakes to point out. If he calls me into his office, it's because he has a question or there is something that needs to be done. I sit right outside his office so he just "yells" at me from his desk and it's no big deal.
Back in the day, yes. Then after I got called in the office, and each time it was for praise, or for an extra project, or "we need ideas on how to handle X", then I stopped being nervous.
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