Do you think you will lose your job because of the economy?

[arkienurse]

Been working on stocking up, slowly, over the past few months. sucks to not be able to get your surgery yet. And although I am young and haven't much in my retirement yet, it is currently down 36% and has been as high as 40% down.

[AngelinaCatHub]

Still not really worried but....................................

My hospital was bought by another company last year. At first, they were going to sell us back to the nonprofit corporation that had made the decison to sell 49% 12 yrs ago. They were all unable to negotiate certain things, so the sale fell through. New company has decided we don't make enough profit and must cut somewhere. According to their stats, we are 6 over in my department. Trying to keep from laying any of us off, they have been calling people off on slower days. I work cvor. We have been very slow for the last month. We feel like we are being given the brunt of the call offs, but I talked to several in the general or yesterday that had as pitiful a number of hours as I did. I have 47 out of a possible 80 for my next paycheck. Thank God we are done with the bk or my paycheck would be even more pitiful, to the point of being almost nonexistent next week. However, I am not in as bad a shape as my coworkers. Most of them have not only car payments, but cc payments as well. We will be ok, but have already started to again vastly limit our eating out and other luxury expenditures.

[arkienurse]

Still not really worried but....................................

My hospital was bought by another company last year. At first, they were going to sell us back to the nonprofit corporation that had made the decison to sell 49% 12 yrs ago. They were all unable to negotiate certain things, so the sale fell through. New company has decided we don't make enough profit and must cut somewhere. According to their stats, we are 6 over in my department. Trying to keep from laying any of us off, they have been calling people off on slower days. I work cvor. We have been very slow for the last month. We feel like we are being given the brunt of the call offs, but I talked to several in the general or yesterday that had as pitiful a number of hours as I did. I have 47 out of a possible 80 for my next paycheck. Thank God we are done with the bk or my paycheck would be even more pitiful, to the point of being almost nonexistent next week. However, I am not in as bad a shape as my coworkers. Most of them have not only car payments, but cc payments as well. We will be ok, but have already started to again vastly limit our eating out and other luxury expenditures.

[On The Brink]

Was Layed off in August and called back in september but the company I work for is on the ropes!
We sell building products and a I drive a truck for them so with a bad housing market our sales have plummeted and the recent gas situation hurt even more! Major layoffs and such I beleive it's just a matter of time now....hoping we can hang in a few more months but doesnt look good!

[tonymaffoy]

well because i am working in small company.

generally, crisis affects first very big giants.
for small companies there are large number of small clients.
there is wide spectrum of small number of clients.
that's why in crisis small companies are running.
what do you think?

[rickisbroke]

I'm a parts guy at a domestic auto dealer...in Michigan. A while ago, when the economy wasn't quite as bad, I heard corporate wanted to get all of their brands under one roof instead of the many single line dealers that exist. That would have led to some dealerships closing. I think this may still be the plan. Then, the buzz was one of the big three was looking to buy us, which would quite possibly lead to many jobs lost as plants and dealerships closed.
The dealership I work with has been around for a long, long time. They have a great customer base, and are still selling cars and servicing them. I haven't seen any major cutbacks at my workplace, but I am more concerned about the big picture.
I have had the "any day now" feeling for the last 5 months.

[AMISLANDER]

These are scary times. There basically isn't any job security anymore. Hang in there, but plan for the "might"... just in case.

I can type 80 wpm so first thing I'd do is go register with Kelly Services as a temp....

[Trixie007]

Luckily DH has good job security with the govt, but I've already had to leave one career and train for another. The first half of this year I was working 3 jobs (about 60 hrs/wk combined) trying to make ends meet, but they fell out one by one.

[FLBK7]

Just learned that due to economy/budget issues, my job might go to part-time next summer..."might" is a very strong adj. today... it "might" just be a heads up?

These are scary times. There basically isn't any job security anymore. Hang in there, but plan for the "might"... just in case.

[AMISLANDER]

Just learned that due to economy/budget issues, my job might go to part-time next summer..."might" is a very strong adj. today... it "might" just be a heads up?

[treehugger1]

I'm like woeisme. Tenured at a small college. I had a chance last year to take another position elsewhere and I'm glad I didn't. Administration here is pretty good about finances. (Maybe that's why I'm not in administration
)
On the other hand, if I was still employed in my old job (gypo logging company) I would have already lost my job a few years ago and the new economic issues would not make it likely there would be work anytime soon.

[arkienurse]

My wife is a nurse and has seniority so that seems secure. However, they are calling people off occassionally lately.

Occasionally? Try I am home for my second day in a row. My hospital was recently bought by a big corporation that is really into profit.

But I feel like my job is secure as long as we have a cardiac surgeon. I work in the cardiovascular OR. Right now, I am the only person they have that can do both the RN job and the scrubtech/lpn job. And I am the charge nurse. So the only way they get rid of me is if I do something stupid to endanger the patient, violate HIPPA, or maybe start doing fentanyl on the side.
And even if they do away with the cardiac surgery program, I have 12 1/2 yrs of senority in the OR dept in general.

[hopeforus]

I hope hubby doesn't. He already went a year without a job becuase of this stupid Army school he had to go to and no one would hire him because of it. Then being injured while there and being sent home to heal and go back... all while not being paid for that... really screwed us up. He has a job now that should be good but I'm really not sure. It's scary.

[miajade74]

hello friends

hello friends, this is miajade, i am new here.

[epiphany]

Well done, I am glad you are out too! Good wishes to the biz!

Thank you so much Brokenn! I really appreciate that and wish nothing but the best for all the people of this forum.

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