Getting canned
I have never been relieved of my duties by any former employer. I have certainly gone through lengthy periods of unemployment and government-classified poverty, but those situations were of my own making. I have even quit jobs for various reasons. However, our horrible economic decline plus recent news of my company’s initiative to downsize has lead me to face this reality (and throw up profusely).
I can only imagine that the initial impact is something horrible and completely distressing. Many people hate their jobs. There is just something disturbing about having to spend 9 hours of your day doing something quasi against your will. Still, most of the time it’s not that bad (especially when faced with the alternative). Furthermore, it pays the bills and keeps you off the street. So although one’s new found unemployment may remedy the “job hating” situation; it adds about 50 new shitty situations.
I would like to think that I would not be completely crippled by such news, but there is really no way to tell. California is a ridiculously expensive state. I’d be hard-pressed to make something happen AS-freaking-AP. Of course, it seems the 1.3 million people who have been laid off this year are in the same boat. I guess some people lay down and die while others make shit happen. Hopefully I don’t have to find out which of those categories I fall in.
I hear it now: “Be thankful you still have a job, stop stressing, and shut the hell up!”
I’m just saying…
