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[somedaybitch]

ah, the French.

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[ch1pper.livejournal.com]

wha???

*shakes head*

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

yeah, I've watched this situation with much bemusement... I know our systems aren't analogous to each other... but except for working at my mom's place when I was 12 there hasn't been a workday in my life where I couldn't have been let go... including today. So pardon me while I chuckle just a tad at the le enfants terribles... while remembering that our own system can be an extreme in the opposite way... where every moment you are wondering when the axe will fall.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i don't have that wonder at all...unless i'm not doing my job. and if i'm not doing my job then i don't deserve to get paid for it. taking money for something you aren't doing is called theft where i come from.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

yeah, in the corporate world it often isn't like that. They're out of budget? Sorry kid, can you help us with the transition plan that eliminates your job? I am somewhat insulated where I am, but I have seen really.bad.things. in other places... Usually it isn't at an individual level though... it can be whole divisions. I know one or two at Lucent that are about to take a hit because of the merger, and when you are 50, sometimes finding the next thing is hard, or it's out there, but at 1/2 what you were making. A question of balance. When Accenture outsourced to Bangalore, people where on the street that DAY, and those w/ only a few years with the company got nada in severence... sometimes doing your job, has nothing to do with anything. This is what those students rightly fear. The flip side is that eventually a company gets a rep, and when they need help no-one will work for them. That doesn't help individuals caught in the conflagration though. :shrug: it's just something you account for, and hope you never see it...