# Today was my last day at work!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 20, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040 "2008-12-20T05:55:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040/1 "2008-12-20T05:55:08Z")

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I’m in a kind of a combination position to [**Fiddle Peghead**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10594029) and [**Leaffan**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10588122) here. Got the news just over a month ago, and today was my last day (And there’s no layoff thread on the 1st page of MPSIMS anymore. 😉 )

Our U.S. parent company said we had to cut costs, which meant the satellite office in Nisku had to go. I was offered a job in Calgary, but it’s too far away from my friends, and not far enough to be exciting. Two co-workers who quit a few months back to start their own business have asked me to sign on with them (with greater enthusiasm than I probably deserve :p)

I’ll admit that the job was wearing on me… older technology and the maintenance of old programs in favour of rebuilding them seemed like a Sisyphean task, and I actually felt happy to go at the time. I still feel that way… right now I’m 1/3 concerned about my short-term employment, 1/3 concerned about logging back in to my work PC to finish deleting my personal emails and such, and 1/3 sad that this means I’ll probably never know what [that wind turbine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=492385) is for. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040/2 "2008-12-20T08:02:22Z")

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Beaming luck waves your way. }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040/3 "2008-12-20T13:19:34Z")

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Good luck on your job search!

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-my-last-day-at-work/478040/4 "2008-12-21T19:44:51Z")

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Thanks! I’m already scheduled to start the new job in January, so no big problems there (except that I’ll be taking a pay cut for a few months 'till the new place starts to make bigger profits).

I’d like to say Good Luck! 🙂 to everyone else hit by the economy; as a single guy in the Alberta oilpatch, losing even my 4+ year job wasn’t as big a deal as it would be for most other people.