"Be curious to hear from posters who will NOT be affected by current economic crisis or whose income and companies they work for are growing. Anybody out there in THOSE circumstances?"....I work for a drug store chain, part of a team that helps to automate computer opertaions and related depts. We have added thousands of stores since I started in 1991. This year they claim we'll add another 300-400 stores. Last year or two we've added 500-600 new stores per year. Wall street hit us hard a few quarters ago. Upper mgmt decided we needed to "rewire" the company. I don't recall the exact wording, but no one is safe from the axe. Store payroll hours have been cut. Rumors have it our "in-house" repair services (store computer repairs, store HVAC mainly), our 1st level store call repair center, potentially our 1st level network call center, all may be outsourced. One of the things that were cut was the company Christmas gift. It was based on length of sevice. Last year I got $100 b/4 taxes. This year its gone. I kinda wonder if the upper boys bonuses will be cut(yea right).
I prolly shouldn't say this out loud, but im not to worried about a layoff. There are only 5 of us on the team w/an open position that will not be filled. Even if they outsourced the computer room, I would still be somewhat needed for the automation at a new place. A le-a-zon(sp?) tween the company and the "new" computer room. Actually, the same kinda thing happened in the mid-80's to early 90's. Back then I was cut at one place (1982 buyout-800 people were duplicate functions), was kept at another(1990-Monkey Wards downsize), was kept at a third(1991-buyout but all IT people were retained).
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