The Economy has come knocking on my front door. Sure, hearing about companies loosing employees, the stock market tanking and corrupt executives effects me to an extent. The economy was effecting me but not personally, that is until Monday. Monday was the day of layoffs at LLS. I knew it was coming as raising money when the economy sucks is well, really hard. As an organization we are down from budget this year because some of our programs just didn't deliver. I was lucky in that I had a heads up that layoffs were on the way. We lost one member of our team. Overall the organization had a 10% decrease in staff.
While this is going to sound horrible, I'm not really that upset about the loss. I wasn't always sure the person who was laid off was into his job or did as much as he could. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for the guy as I don't wish him any illwill and know he is going to have it rough. What keeps running through my mind is that the position is gone. The rest of the staff is going to have to pick up the pieces. How we are going to be able to 1 - figure out what he had going on, 2 - add more to what we all have going on and 3 - coordinate our efforts so we don't go batty, is on my mind. Unfortunatley I think a lot of it will come to me to figure out and coordinate. Sure, I needed more to do!
I suppose I should be grateful I have a job. For now. Of course no more layoffs are planned, but isn't that what they always say? I'm not really hurting for money and have a pretty good life. Work just got 100 times harder and more complicated but I'll survive that also. I suppose I am wondering I should be doing to ensure my career future isn't thrown off track.
Oh well. I'm off on my cruise next week so I'm sure once I get back I'll have it all out of my system. :)
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it's a scary time, isn't it? have a great trip and don't worry about it until you get back.
Bon voyage.
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