November 13... and it wasn't even a Friday

Ouch, man, that sucks -- I hope you can find something.

Give them their passwords, but when they call you to fix something, you've just become an independent contractor, meaning you get to set the terms of the arrangement. Make sure you get what you're worth.

 

I'm sorry this happened to you. You deserve better. Off the record: (*#$&)(!@*(@$_()#($()#*($@&%_@)#%*#@_)*$_@#)($*$()*!!!!!!!!!!!


Like Simon says, be gracious. Politely give them their passwords and they will pay you for independent contract work. Something similar happened to my husband right after 9-11 when all the investors backed out on his company. I wanted to punish these people!!!omg, I was so mad. I wanted to hurt them, but fortunately my husband had his wits about him and remained very polite.

$150 per hour is what I convinced my husband to charge for contract work to do things only he knew how to do since he developed the product. I came up with that figure because $150 per hour per person is what IBM charged at that time when their people got called out to do consulting for similar projects. Market value. Guess what??? They paid it and they had to call him back several times.

After that he got a good job with great benefits and same salary and was able to use them as a reference -they raved about how professional and courteous he was.

Don't forget to throw in a few of these: "omg, you people were such a pain in my ass sometimes, but I really miss working with you. If this position opens up again, give me a call."

Boldly ask for what you need.

I need a hug, btw. /me huggles you!!!

 

HUGGLES!!!

/me huggles brokentusk and Om.

 

Sorry to hear that Tusk, AT&T just bought the company I work for so I'm not sure how long I will be employed either.

 

Sounds like good news! Glad to hear that the job hunt is going well!

 

Sorry to hear that bud. good luck on the rebound!

 

You may be right about them doing you a favor by downsizing you early. Eliminating essential positions like that is not an action typically taken by a company that is planning to be around for long.

 

Wow that is nuts.... if you could, please keep the updates coming. I would love to know how their firing spree turns out for them when the stuff starts to break down.

 

I'm so glad you found something!

...and I don't know if I ever shared the story, but I was fired from my first job out of college. (I know you were laid off, and there is a huge difference, but wait for the similarity at the end) I worked as a medical sales rep for an imaging company. The more people I spoke to, the more I suffered with the burden of knowledge -that this company I worked for was breaking the law and doing things that hurt people.
The radiologist was reading films and tainting the results so she could be payed by people who had scans done under "LOP" (letter of protection from a lawyer meaning they had no money to pay for the scan, but *if* they won their court case they would use their winnings to pay their medical bills...see a conflict here?) and those who didn't really need surgery were having lots and lots of surgery ala insurance coverage because the radiologist made it appear to be necessary surgery, which makes money for the doctors so the crooked ones refer more patients. They were committing insurance fraud in several ways, that being one. The MRI and radiology equipment was not properly installed on location, because they wanted to cut some corners. The man who owned this facility, Dr. Randy Gillum, also owned a hospital in south dallas that was non profit so they got a tax break from the government in exchange for taking care of indigent patients, but they didn't take care of indigent patients. They released these non-payers AMA-against medical advice if they didn't fork over the dough.

I have this stupid thing called a conscience so when I know things aren't right, I can't just keep my mouth shut and rake in the bucks. I'm not the kind to secretly spy and report info to trap someone. I'm a straightforward idiot who goes right up to the people breaking the law and naively asks them up front to please change and when millions of dollars are at stake, or even when there's not much money, but it's just a stupid friggen game (tribalwar) that won't really go anywhere but it's a matter of comparing penis sizes...sorry, I've gone off on a tangent...

back to the med fraud...

I was fired because I raised concerns and I was pretty humiliated. I did receive compensation because there was no valid reason for firing me, but still I was wounded. My father in law one day asked me about it and he said his protege had been working for the hospital owned by Dr. Gillum and because he discovered countless incidents of fraud, when he brought it to their attention...he was fired as well.

ok, here's the connection: Dr. Randy Gillum and his hospital and Pioneer Imaging were taken down!!! -by the district attorney in Dallas a few months after I was fired. Vindication.

Sweet, sweet, sweet vindication. Although it didn't pay the bills...but I can still taste the sweetness.

 

soweeeeeeheeeeeeHEEEEEHEEEEEEEEEEEET!!! Sorry...can't get the sweetness off my mind. ~