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Pioneer
Profile Joined December 2008
994 Posts
January 28 2009 09:55 GMT
#21
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
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 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
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
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.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
triangle
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3803 Posts
January 28 2009 20:14 GMT
#24
My dad got laid off last week. Pretty sucky atmosphere around the house ATM.
Also known as waterfall / w4terfall
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3408 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.
김택용 Fighting!
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
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.
Rillanon.au
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
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..
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
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.
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
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?
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
January 29 2009 03:01 GMT
#30
Yeah... my dad and brother got laid off as well. My mom and I are the only ones working right now.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
January 30 2009 21:23 GMT
#31
my mom just got laid off today working at OIC, she worked there for 4+ yrs.
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3408 Posts
January 30 2009 21:38 GMT
#32
On January 31 2009 06:23 Raithed wrote:
my mom just got laid off today working at OIC, she worked there for 4+ yrs.

What is OIC?
김택용 Fighting!
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
January 31 2009 03:57 GMT
#33
On January 31 2009 06:38 Yaqoob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2009 06:23 Raithed wrote:
my mom just got laid off today working at OIC, she worked there for 4+ yrs.

What is OIC?

officemate international, its like a factory place for office depot, officemate, etc.
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