Bad News / Good News

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:57:48 Post Subject: Bad News / Good News

Bad news: Tomorrow I get laid-off.. Budgetary thing.. Major cut backs to ease up on company debt. Probably only a temporary thing til funds build up and work piles up. (Dad and I just do alot, thus spending alot)

Good news: WOOHOO!! State paid vacation for upto 6 months. Time to work on the house and yard. Go fishing or explode some groundhogs with one of my favorite rifles. Sleep in.. BF1942 til weee early morning hours.

I also got another company pretty much begging me to work for them. From my experience, I should fall in their mid to upper pay scale - $26.25ph or $32.25ph starting($5-11 more ph than I make now), only catch is they I gotta negotiate expenses.... like fuel to town and motel/room. As it stands now, they dont pay for those things like my present company does. They only pay mileage for on the job travel. ....BUT, they are in pretty desperate need of two engineers. The company I would sign up with just signed a 3 year contract with Verizon - so it'd be somewhat stable. The sight would only be 80miles from home as apposed to the 145miles presently.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Bummer and cool at the same time.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:31:11 Post Subject:

Sounds like a better deal over all. The other expenses you can deduct on your taxes.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:33:16 Post Subject:

Hey... It's the best time of year to be laid off!

I was laid off for just over 5 months in 2003 (Feb. - Aug.) and when I went back to work I had more money in the bank than at any other time thanks to my unemployment check (and a decent severance). Wasa good time, but I should have had more fun with a bit of confidence that I was eventually going to work again, but that is the time when I started this site! Grin

And now I'm off for a few months again! Grin

But this time its disability... Not much fun, but there are good days, and nice weather doesn't take much to enjoy.

Hope you get back to work soon... or at least as soon as you have to!

acruxksa · Posted: Fri, 25 May 2007 01:22:25 Post Subject:

Man, it looks like we're all enjoying the summer this year. I've been on paid family leave since April 1st. and am not scheduled to return to work until July 24th. Wife broke her ankle so I'm playing Mr. Mom, which quite frankly is kicking my a$$, but I still find time to relax and enjoy the weather.

Knight, sounds like things couldn't have really worked out better if you wanted them to. Some time off and a possible pay raise.

knight0334 · Posted: Fri, 25 May 2007 08:00:34 Post Subject:

Man.. that sucks to hear some of you guys are off too.

This is a decent time for me to "off". The weather here lately has been perfect for me, not too hot-not too cold.

Next Wednesday I'm hiking back to one of my favorite fishing creeks to catch some trout. Its probably about 1/2 mile back in behind the family farm. Small stream about 2-6ft wide, but not a man-made thing in sight. Good chance of catching a woodchuck out of his hole too on the way back. give'm an overdose of vitamin Pb.

I was saving up for a motorcycle to ride this summer.. too damn bad I'll have to use the fund for living. It'd been nice to ride around all summer on one.

knight0334 · Posted: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:04:03 Post Subject:

OK... more good news...

I got a paid interview for June 22 at 10am. Yep, you read that correctly, a paid interview. They are gonna pay me a full day's wage at $29.25 an hour to come to Johnstown to meet with them. More to get acquainted with their polices, procedures, etc, etc.. Then start work on July 2nd at a minimum of $29.25.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Nice, hopefully it works out well for you.

It's great to be off for the short term, but eventually it does actually wear you down. Least it did for me. But then I can't sit still for long lol