Has the nature of your job changed since our recent economic debacle? Details please.
by 
Scifisuz
ANSWERS: 8
-
Yes, it's much harder to get the kind of contracts I like. And even when I can land a client, it's for 70% of what I was working for two years ago.
-
no everything is the same the only change is that I might soon end without a job
-
Definitely. I work for any attorney, and we have filed double the bankruptcy petitions than we did last year at this time. +4
-
Yep! four day week! no overtime & extended unpaid holidays!! :-/
-
Yes, I was given more duties and responsibilities and I somehow have less work!
-
Of course we're out of that loop because we're retired. But my sister lost her job last year and fortunately was old enough to file for social security this past February. One friend has had and lost several jobs in the last year, all computer-based. Another friend had a good job but due to some odd circumstances lost it and the jobs out there for both of them are getting fewer and farther between..meanwhile the downsizing or eliminating altogether of jobs continues. So far my kid is o.k. although the entire state of Hawaii is suffering dearly for lack of tourists compared to prior years. Salaries are frozen at the University and when people leave they are not being replaced..those still there absorb the extra work. When it will slow down and start to right itself I don't know. Meanwhile everyone is paying a price one way or another. How are you doing?
-
Hubby has been with his company for 25 years, and over that time, there have been the lean day and the other kind. This latest downsize has worked out especially funny for us. The owners decided to cut out the middle management, such as the department managers, and combine the departments under one division manager. Since Hubby was a department manager, they had to figure out what to do with him. The end result was to give him a new title, as "lead programmer". Since he is no longer a "manager" he is no longer stuck with the manager salary cap, and he got a raise!!
-
No ... just my compensation.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC