I feel for you, my mother was laid off from her job of 15 years last year (early '08) but she worked odd temp jobs while getting her nursing license and now has a pretty decent job at a nursing home so there is hope for your dad, it'll just be hard but good things will happen if you keep trying (help your dad with applications too, you can cover a lot more ground that way).

EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

January 28 2009 13:41 GMT

#22

My dad worked for Petroleos De Venezuela Sociedad Anonima (PDVSA) and Chavez fired all of the engineers there in public TV a long time ago. Since it was the biggest oil company (if not the only one) in the country, we went from upper class living to low class in an instant.

=(

Phyre

United States1288 Posts

January 28 2009 16:25 GMT

#23

Thanks for sharing your stories everyone as well as the words of encouragement. Best of luck to you all in similar situations.

triangle

United States3803 Posts

January 28 2009 20:14 GMT

#24

My dad got laid off last week. Pretty sucky atmosphere around the house ATM.

Yaqoob

Canada3335 Posts

January 28 2009 20:17 GMT

#25

I got laid off from my job about 1 month 1/2 ago. I was working their for about 2 years and a half.

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

January 28 2009 21:20 GMT

#26

what does he do at IBM? if he got experience under his belt then take a fat redundancy pay check and look else where.

Physician

United States4146 Posts

January 28 2009 22:19 GMT

#27

I just laid off two people this month, one bitched too much the other was incompetent..

HamerD

United Kingdom1922 Posts

January 29 2009 01:39 GMT

#28

I feel sorry for you mate. Now's time to live on a budget, and look optimistically towards cutting costs! Comon you can get through it! Plus with IBM on his CV your dad should be re-employed soon, if he tries hard.

HamerD

United Kingdom1922 Posts

January 29 2009 01:41 GMT

#29

On January 28 2009 22:41 EsX_Raptor wrote:
My dad worked for Petroleos De Venezuela Sociedad Anonima (PDVSA) and Chavez fired all of the engineers there in public TV a long time ago. Since it was the biggest oil company (if not the only one) in the country, we went from upper class living to low class in an instant.

=(

Fuuuucccckkkk.

why not move to a different country with his engineer skills?