We get to find out if my wife will still have a job this week.....

Good luck.

 

Sorry to hear that mate. Hope all goes well for ya's.

 

Good luck.........


Laying off engineers?

 

Things happen for a reason.....

If she does get layed off, she will get a better, higher paying job with one of Daimler's competitors.

I wouldn't worry too much about it

 

Wow! Thats alot of peoples lives put on hold while they look for another job.

 

Sh*t!!!

 

Best of luck to you.

 

Dan, I am very sorry to hear this. If there is anything I can do please let me know.

 

Dan, sorry to hear about your predicament. Hope that all works out for you two. I have a few guys that work part time for me, who also work at 'Damn near Chrysler' that are calling it the St. Valentines Day Massacre.

Around here it seems that there are 10 applicants for every one job opening in the auto industry. She may have to move from automotive to another sector...defense springs to mind as a closely related field. I know that there are a number of General Dynamics facilities close to us here in the tri-county area.

 

Best of luck my wife went through this a couple of years back and after a short time off went on to a bigger and better opportunity.

 

Why not go into the active mode and look for another job now before the layoffs start. Maybe she can get ahead of the curve and move on. You always look more valuable when you have a job. I think even if she doesn't get the ax now, they will be doing it again soon. This happened to my brother and he got laid off in the third round. It took him 2 years to get another job. I kept telling him to start looking before the end but he didn't listen and was screwed up a while. He also was in his mid 50's and that gets to be tough to find a job. Good luck in whatever you decide.

 

good luck, i'm sure everything will work out well in the end.

 

Where is michael Moore when you need him?

 

It may be a little late for that, the hammer falls on Wednesday.

 

Does she work at the plant in Newark?

 

There's a lot of people feeling the pain in Michigan and other NA automotive areas. MI had the second highest December unemployment rate of 7.1% largely due to downturn in automotive. She'll probably have to jump ship and seek out the Toyota's etc. or possibly defense industry. Good luck with it.

 

When you work for someone else, you should always have a contingency plan. Always be prepared to relocate.

Even if she isn't laid off this time, it may happen later when you are older and jobs are harder to get.

The unemployment level is low now. Near historical lows. Effectively, we are at full employment in the US. Will probably get worse rather than better.

Be proactive, positive and enthusiastic. Nobody wants to hire downers.

People are always looking to hire good people who are looking for "work", not looking for a "job". It's just a matter of hooking up with them. Decide what you really like to do, and go for that.

Good luck.

PNH
Retired CEO

Remember: All sickness isn't death. You will grow from this.

 

Hopefully she will be able to dodge the bullit this time, but I agree with what some of the others are saying about looking now for something else. The bad thing about the Detroit area is even if you want to relocate to another state, you can't afford to because houses aren't selling here. Lets hope this doom and gloom doesn't last long. I wish her luck.

 

That's easy for you to say, wanna trade places with anyone ?

 

Another 'easier said than done' message.

I was laid off last June (entire company folded), and I've been looking ever since. I'm 48, and I can sense when I walk into an interview how things will go, and I have absolutely aced some drop-dead interviews, but didn't get the job(s). And it isn't pay that's holding me back, I am 'priced right' for my profession.

And there are all kinds of things that skew the jobless rate - you should know that - one thing is that folks drop off the chart after 2 years so they are not even counted, the other is called 'underemployment'. Someone that made 85K as a Systems Programmer now makes 20-24K a year doing temp IT work, it's not pretty out there.

I was laid off of a different job 5 years ago and landed a new job 4 months later, and I then immediately got us out of debt except for the mortgage, and refi'd that down 25%. If I had not done that, we would be in a world of hurt right now, but so far, 8 months into this, we have not had to tap into any investments, and only a very small amount of savings has been touched.

I feel for and understand completely what 40+ people go through when jobs disappear, I've lived it twice now.