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grease lightninSBR Posting Legend
- 10-01-12
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#106Comment -
jjgoldSBR Aristocracy
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#107gettig laid off at a young age with no family is nothingComment -
pavyracerSBR Aristocracy
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#108Mike Corbin Landscaping, Joey Slats Fencing and Hankie Weber glory hole experts are all hiring.Comment -
DiggityDaggityDoSBR Aristocracy
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#111DDD, there's one thought I gave to gay for pay porn, and thats giving you a hard skull penetrating with secretion of ocular fluid on my rooster as I Skull penetrate your left orbital socket as you scream in pain for it to stop. You ask me to "pull out" after your orbital secretes fluid on my rooster and you bleed from the nose. Jizz secretes from the socket and stops your technicolor heartbeatComment -
The KrakenBARRELED IN @ SBR!
- 12-25-11
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#112Stealthy I'm a decade ahead of you and have switched jobs a few times over the last 15 years
I can only say that the next time I switch jobs, I will take off at least 3 months in between. I should've done it before I started my current job and I knew it but things happened, I was offered the job on the spot and knew it wouldn't be open long, so I took it. It's a great job and I'm glad I'm where I am, but when I move on from here, I'm taking time off.
Lifes about the journey, don't miss out on itComment -
JMobileSBR Posting Legend
- 08-21-10
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#113I don't feel awful, more disappointed I didn't get to walk on my own accord.
Warnings of cutbacks were rumored for some time. And considering I was most senior in my group and butted heads with management made me a no brainer.
Gut punch came when they wouldn't let me walk back to my workspace to collect my things and say goodbye to my colleagues without security escorts. I know that a common policy, but still - sucks.
I'm 26 - not sure if I want to remain a cog in the political machinery of a DC law firm anymore.
So, other than the obvious (applying for jobs and interviewing) what do you all do to pass your excess downtime??
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stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#114Funny. There's a site in everyone's local area for searching for jobs. Obviously, you use the unemployment because you earned it, but if I were you, I would type in keywords about unemployment extensions. They do exist. It would be awful if you're coming down to your final checks. Look at it now, therefore you know what you're in for. I also totally agree about a job that let's you go and they follow you as you pick up your belongings as if you were a criminal. You were good enough to work there, then all of a sudden, they have like a security person treat you like you're not trusted. Happened to me once. I told them get off my back or I will sue them for harassment.
You have more moxie than I do Willer. I was pretty broken up about being "escorted" around, I didn't have the clear mind to think that up. You spend a lot of time with colleagues, so for them to rip that away with an Adios felt crappy. But I get their reasoning.Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#116Sorry to hear that your employer laid you off. Luckily for me I've never been in that circumstance. This is probably the best time to find a passion in something and start your own business. I'm looking to start my own business this year just looking for the right people to work with. Try networking or joining social groups which I'm doing right now. End of the day who doesn't want to be their own boss.
Best of luck.
I totally agree on the networking point. Get your foot in the door is more about who you know than what you know it seemed to be in the field I worked. I have put preliminary feelers out to old bosses, colleagues, and friends and to my surprise - the reaction has been positive. I truly did dread the "unemployed" label, feeling stigmatized but I realize people are more than happy to help and not typecast me. I will remember this and when or if I need to pay it back, or forward - I certainly will!Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#118[QUOTE=USCPHILLYGUY;25485137]
Phillyguy, how did matty land a hot wife? Did he drug her, take her through a vegas drive through chapel, and she just got to lazy to annul the marriage?Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#119i used to be in the Navy. The avatar is the actual ship i used to be on the Minesweeper Exultant. It has long since been decommissioned though. Back then i was stationed in Charleston SC. I am actually living on the East Coast now not out West. But i Love Arizona . Nothing like the Desert so pretty.Comment -
jjgoldSBR Aristocracy
- 07-20-05
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#120stealthy come to my padComment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#121Another thing annoying about that situation is I got some nefarious items at my desk. We also have a gym in our building so my poor supervisor (whom I hand picked to collect my items since he was cool with me) has to box up sweaty gym shorts, Tshirts, and underwear.Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#122:lol: fine stealthy shoot yourself in the foot. As they said in Pulp Fiction pride only hurts my friend.
Lol at needing a guard to go to your desk that's pretty lame. A buddy of mine who was with a marketing firm recently left with a couple of other people at that company to start their own firm. Management at that company played like everything was amicable the whole way - during talks about clients etc. He went in to HR for his exit interview who told kindly that "if he wanted to he could take his last couple of days off." He walks back to desk and his computer password is changed :lol:
Definitely more underhanded than what your employer did. The guard was probably policy and/or they saw that video where you were contemplating if you could fly off that ledge. That combined with the fact you went fight club on management (or maybe you shouldn't bring me every piece of shit you find around the office - while showing him your bleeding gums from last night's fight - is never a good thing to say to your boss, for future reference) would have had me calling the cops long ago.Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#123I would absolutely assign a guard to Stealthy. Guy is a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off the rails.
Think about it.....if you ran a fukkin company, and saw a video of some Mexican employee doing a clearly meth fueled dance while pounding Chinese vodka at 10 am, would you let that fukker run around your corporate offices after you just shitcanned him???
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stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#128Stealthy I'm a decade ahead of you and have switched jobs a few times over the last 15 years
I can only say that the next time I switch jobs, I will take off at least 3 months in between. I should've done it before I started my current job and I knew it but things happened, I was offered the job on the spot and knew it wouldn't be open long, so I took it. It's a great job and I'm glad I'm where I am, but when I move on from here, I'm taking time off.
Lifes about the journey, don't miss out on it
Many Thanks Kraker, I hoped you'd chime in and am very happy to see you have.
I dunno if this is positive or perhaps a negative, but when you say you'll take 3 months off I assume you've got your time planned to do something you want accomplished, if for nothing else than personal enjoyment/satisfaction. I can't even fathom what I could occupy myself with for the next 3 months. Seriously, part of me views work as a way to pass time, and if I got to pass it might as well get paid to do so. So yeah, for me, work feels like work. Don't get me wrong, I liked what I did - But I didn't love it - it never got to a point where I lost track of time. Those type of events have been sporadic in my life. I dunno kraker, I know you're sharing your personal views, but at this moment, I'm having trouble molding it to myself. I feel like I'm missing a good lesson here.Comment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#129Dam Burrito, I know how that feels to not being able to walk back to your desk and collect all your personal stuff and say bye to your colleagues. How much were you making and was the place shutting down or just had to do a lay off of employees like in the movie Office Space?
Jmobiler, I'm not totally going to tell you how much I was making but as the most senior employee of my department, I was making the most and had a comfortable salary considering my plot at this point in life. Place is not shutting down, just making budgetary cuts on staff due to a recent snafu with losing a longtime (and expensive) client. I'm just speculating, but given what it's peers have done in the industry, I wouldn't be surprised if they went the way of shipping staff jobs midwest where cost of living is cheaper. Also, DC employee rights are too friendly to the worker, which is becoming a double edged sword. At the end of the day, it is what it is, and thankfully, my colleagues came outside in our little park area to say their goodbyes. I hope you got some closure in your situation and some solace from that life episode.Comment -
jjgoldSBR Aristocracy
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#131Las VegasComment -
stealthyburritoSBR Posting Legend
- 05-12-09
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#132Thanks. Appreciate the call. Again, can be there Wednesday just send a driver to pick me up. I'll coverComment -
JMobileSBR Posting Legend
- 08-21-10
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#133Jmobiler, I'm not totally going to tell you how much I was making but as the most senior employee of my department, I was making the most and had a comfortable salary considering my plot at this point in life. Place is not shutting down, just making budgetary cuts on staff due to a recent snafu with losing a longtime (and expensive) client. I'm just speculating, but given what it's peers have done in the industry, I wouldn't be surprised if they went the way of shipping staff jobs midwest where cost of living is cheaper. Also, DC employee rights are too friendly to the worker, which is becoming a double edged sword. At the end of the day, it is what it is, and thankfully, my colleagues came outside in our little park area to say their goodbyes. I hope you got some closure in your situation and some solace from that life episode.Comment -
JAKEPEAVY21BARRELED IN @ SBR!
- 03-11-11
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#134start a food truck business, you already have a solid name...Stealthy BurritoComment -
vividjohn45SBR Hall of Famer
- 11-21-10
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#135I don't feel awful, more disappointed I didn't get to walk on my own accord.
Warnings of cutbacks were rumored for some time. And considering I was most senior in my group and butted heads with management made me a no brainer.
Gut punch came when they wouldn't let me walk back to my workspace to collect my things and say goodbye to my colleagues without security escorts. I know that a common policy, but still - sucks.
I'm 26 - not sure if I want to remain a cog in the political machinery of a DC law firm anymore.
So, other than the obvious (applying for jobs and interviewing) what do you all do to pass your excess downtime??
Many ThanksComment -
brooks85SBR Aristocracy
- 01-05-09
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#136you need to be reapplying asap if you plan on parlaying your work experience. It is a fact HR will punish you for long gaps of unemployment and that usually starts around 6 months.
Also, willingness to move out of state is important.Last edited by brooks85; 03-25-16, 09:13 AM.Comment -
King MayanSBR Posting Legend
- 09-22-10
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#137Brooksy you sure to know a lot about being laid off??
Brooksy do you work??Comment -
blackHIPPYSBR MVP
- 10-01-14
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#138you get them unemployment papers yet bruh?Comment -
stevek173BARRELED IN @ SBR!
- 03-29-08
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jjgoldSBR Aristocracy
- 07-20-05
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#140Everyone gets laid off..non story here
Execs get laid off making 500K a yearComment
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