I'm RIFed!

[rbaer]

Had to happen sonner or later, things not looking good around here, but I thought I had until the end of the year. Nope, got the news yesterday, gone on the 3rd. Hmmm.....

[Tobi]

Sorry to read that, good luck for the future.

Tobi

[Mence]

Yes, all the best buddy.

[rbaer]

Thanks gents. I've got possibilities, and to be totally honest, this is a good thing. I've been helping a friend get a startup business off the ground, and I just found out (not surprised actually) that they're just trying to hang on until the end of the year so they can pay off the loans they got to open, and then close it up and run.
It'll be nice to get a job with benefits, like a regular paycheck.......

[Leon]

Best of luck rbaer.Things will work out fine for you.

[wbill76]

Always tough but sounds like you've already got solid plans to work from Russ, hang in there!

[Teabone]

Sorry to hear this as I have never found away to express myself well when faced with the need to acknowledge someones loss of a job or when someone dies.  When I was young and starting out in life I always worried about loosing my job and would always shake my head at the many guys around me whose attitude was "I was looking of a job when I found this one Ill just look again."  I could not feel that way and always worked hard at every job I had to show my appreciation for the work.  The times then in 1963 were different than now in huge ways.  If you did happen to loose your job because the company miss-stepped along the way you could find a better job within a week or so, no body was out of work for long, I never missed a days work for 30 years.

Now is so different than then, everyone seems to be suffering in some way financially and good jobs are just plain hard to find.  Hardly a day goes by where I don't hear of someone having to go look for a job so I can only guess how you must feel and look at the future.  Since you are a scale model builder I have no doubt you are above average intelligence and someone who can figure out problems and find solutions which tells me you should be just what some employer is looking for so I'm pulling for you with the rest of the guys to find that place where you will fit in and continue to share your model building with the gang here.

Bones  

[doogsatx/]

Ouch, sorry to hear that.

If it helps (misery loving company and all), I've been there myself. Very recently. Twice, in fact, in the last two years. The last time (end of February), I got laid off less than three weeks before the third kiddo was born.

I will say that both times, it's worked out for the best with more satisfying and better-paying work. But hopefully I'm done with being laid off for a while!

[bbd468]

Hey Russ, That sux buddy, but it looks like opportunities are there for ya. I sure hope all works out for ya buddy. All the best to ya Russ!

[rbaer]

Thanks, gents. I'm sure I've got an opportunity to move on to something more rewarding, and the wine business was more of an experiment anyway.