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jayfurrMy company, GE Healthcare, had a downsizing on Thursday. My team of trainers and doc writers was not affected. Around 50 employees in our 700+ person office were, I understand, but specifics have not been forthcoming.
Any pleasure I might have had at not losing MY job was, however, significantly diminished by my wife's losing HER job the following day. We thought that she was safe after a number of other employees had lost their positions, but she was called in a few minutes before lunch and informed that she had two weeks notice and a week of severance coming to her, and then that was it. I don't feel anger toward her manager and the company president -- it's not THEIR fault that the "hired gun" president the company brought in a year and change ago managed to drive away their biggest customers and brought things to this state. Carole and I are afraid that this move on their part means that the company is circling the drain, as it were. Carole was having to work evenings and weekends to deal with her increased workload after the previous downsizing and we have NO idea how the work is going to get done now. Not our problem, though. :(
If anyone reading this would like to offer her sympathy, her post about it is here.
Any pleasure I might have had at not losing MY job was, however, significantly diminished by my wife's losing HER job the following day. We thought that she was safe after a number of other employees had lost their positions, but she was called in a few minutes before lunch and informed that she had two weeks notice and a week of severance coming to her, and then that was it. I don't feel anger toward her manager and the company president -- it's not THEIR fault that the "hired gun" president the company brought in a year and change ago managed to drive away their biggest customers and brought things to this state. Carole and I are afraid that this move on their part means that the company is circling the drain, as it were. Carole was having to work evenings and weekends to deal with her increased workload after the previous downsizing and we have NO idea how the work is going to get done now. Not our problem, though. :(
If anyone reading this would like to offer her sympathy, her post about it is here.
