rip you work fer a big assed company that deals with it's humongous number of employees as adjustable liabilities on a profit and loss statement. Layoffs are part of working for boeing.
the company i worked for had 3 employees. the owner and myself and a part time school kid. we worked as a team, my employer was also my friend. when we became profitable i got raises, when money was tight i didn't. after 10 years i asked for a limited partnership, or profitsharing and i asked about a retirment program and or a 401k type program.
the answer was brutal and blunt "this is my company, and i'm the president..." upshot was i wan't going to be seeing a change of status... at least so i was lead to believe.
the workload continued to grow and the owner decided to bring in a new full time person rather than the summer part time college kids we normally used during peak season. I should have recognized that moment what the owners intent was.. but i didn't, and when the new guy was fully trained up, i got the axe.
i thought i had a carrer.. turned out it was just a job. my fault really.. i could have forced the issue as the sole full time salried employee, but since the guy was once a friend i didn't 'go union' on his ass.
'work shall set you free'.
no kiddin.
midnight, i built and serviced low voltage power supplies (batteries) and control systems for R/C and the military, and fuctioned as the operations manager for the company that just laid me off. The owner could and often did leave the shop for months at a time, the buisness functioned flawlessley during his extended and numerous absences. I have over the last 35 years been a heavy equipment operator, auto mechanic, tire store manager, boatbuilder and rigger, battery technician and RPV mechanic.
now i'm in the training loop to be an unemployed bum, with a promotion to bankruptcy immenent.
lifes a squeak, then you find out it can even get worse than that.
