Here at the World’s Second-Largest Selling Commercial Jet Airliner Manufacturer, my function (service engineer) is being sent to (non-union) Southern California. Since I don’t particularly want to move to SoCal, taking a major financial and lifestyle hit, I (and a number of others) am/are being laid off.
This is not an unmitigated disaster; I’m at retirement age, and so in practical terms this means I’m retiring a bit early, with six months’ layoff benefits to sweeten my departure.
And as I wandered idly around the mostly-empty office, headed to the break room for a soda, another benefit occurred to me: That d*ckweed who used to take five ice cubes from the tray, without refilling it, leaving it half-empty, seems to have been laid off, too, so there’s a major office annoyance gone
How the hell do you refill half an ice-cube tray? Doesn’t that just mean that the next person who wants ice cubes can’t get them because there’s no way you can get ice cubes out of a tray that’s only half frozen without making a huge watery mess?
It would honestly never occur to me to fill up half a tray. If there’s a basket to dump it into, sure, dump 'em all and refill the empty tray. But a half-full, half-empty tray is an unusable mess.
You have a point, but in this particular case there are three trays in the freezer, so if we all play nice, there’s plenty of ice for everyone. If we are jerks, then we end up with three trays each with about four cubes in it (which I have seen ).
I always refill the tray after taking out 2 or 3 cubes. If you gently twist the tray (plastic ones), it doesn’t make a mess to get a cube out when they’re not all frozen.
When I was let go from my first job, I also got 6 months of salary. I used it as a nice down payment on my house. Then I got a job with a 10% raise and a signing bonus. I hope your experience works out at least as well!
Sock-shoe-sock-shoe is the only way to go. To do otherwise would leave you with socks on and no shoes, and I just don’t roll that way.
I’m the recent beneficiary of a layoff. Its the first time in my life.
I’m not old enough or rich enough to retire, and no severance, but we’ve been on the path to early retirement for years, so I’m not worried (and think I’m placed in a contract job, I’ll hear today - for 50% more money)
A few of my coworkers were (still are) racists, now I don’t need to spend any time at all around them.
I may not get severance, but my little tiny unemployment check is nice.
The weather is great and the kids are out of school.
My micromanaging boss is now actually doing my job. Frankly, since he was anyway, getting rid of me made sense. Since he is the type of asshole who wonders why no one is a self starter, while micromanaging and if you do something, tells you how its wrong - and since he’s laid off a few people now, he’s either going to break his micromanaging habits (unlikely) or drive himself nuts.
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