very well could be, seeing as how unemployment is paid by the state government...Must be a regional thing? My wife got laid off last winter, signed up online, and unemployment checks rolled in...
very well could be, seeing as how unemployment is paid by the state government...Must be a regional thing? My wife got laid off last winter, signed up online, and unemployment checks rolled in...
You, sir, are wise beyond your years.I have taken the last two out of three summers off on my own dime. I got laid off at the end of 2009. Found a job the spring of 2010, got off unemployement and told the employer I couldn't start until September. Quit that job after a year and went to grad school, took the summer off. Have a nice job and will be saving money so I can be irresponsible on my own dime again in a few years. I plan on spending my retirement in chunks throughout my life.
You shut your face...Sgt Buzz Killington showed up.
When you retire from the AF shouldn't you plan on goofing off for a couple decades?You shut your face...
I personally find nothing offensive with anything I posted. But seriously, am I the only one who heard the guy from Office Space in ithnus original message? I dont want to work at the job I have anymore, but I dont have enough money to goof off all summer, so I want to intentionally get laid off and go on the dole? Please...
After I retire from the AF, I plan on goofing off for at least a year, but dont plan on using anyones $$ but my own...
You can only golf so much, or so I've been told.Help me sell that one to the wife...
This sounds like an awesome plan. You should do this.Ideally I'd get laid off, start severance and get a job in a few weeks. That would result in a month+ of double paychecks. But I'll never be that lucky.
You shut your face...
I personally find nothing offensive with anything I posted. But seriously, am I the only one who heard the guy from Office Space in ithnus original message? I dont want to work at the job I have anymore, but I dont have enough money to goof off all summer, so I want to intentionally get laid off and go on the dole? Please...
After I retire from the AF, I plan on goofing off for at least a year, but dont plan on using anyones $$ but my own...
It's a strange world at my company right now. They sometimes let voluntary layoffs come around. That way people who want out can go voluntarily and save someone's job. But to qualify for that it gets kinda of complicated. You have to deserve a layoff. I've had good reviews so I don't qualify. If my job ended I'd just push some one else out. So I need to do enough to get into that pool without getting fired. I know for a fact who's job I'd take if they had to drop a few people. He doesn't want to leave, I do. But as of now he'd get laid off and I'd take his job. So how do I get myself laid off and save his job?GOLF!? Never...what is a voluntary layoff? That implies something a bit different that how I interpreted your original post...
Engineering.Any hot female executives? You know exactly where I'm going with this.
Anyone passable with beer goggles?Engineering.
No. Across all levels.
Well I'm happily married. But barring that... in my area, still a no.Anyone passable with beer goggles?
Fixed...write all your documents in comic sans
Okay, this I can support. I think poor hygene is the answer, combined with some Milton-esque acts on your part. Start with hoarding all the erasers in the office......how do I get myself laid off and save his job?
Crop dusting seems to easy. But maybe just smelling like a freaking hippie might work.Okay, this I can support. I think poor hygene is the answer, combined with some Milton-esque acts on your part. Start with hoarding all the erasers in the office...
Ohh ****, looks who's back!
I drop in every now n then.
Just usually too busy as **** trying to get a descent quality design/project out of a bucha lazy, over paid DOD ktrs to fling poo in the Monkey House.
Oh this is great! I'm in the same boat right now, except Property Management. So I look at indeed.com, craigslist.org, simplyhired.com, and any other site I can find to get me into a job I will actually enjoy EVERY SINGLE DAY. I am bored because I don't have enough work to do, so while I am still productive (um, remember that unemployment only pays a percentage of what you are earning now), I just spend more time looking for a new gig than posting pics in teh random pic thread these daysSo everyone's bored with their jobs, I've been bored for years. Lately I've realized not only do I have no further career where I am but the industry (defense contract aerospace) is slowly dying. That and my boss threw me under boss somthin' fierce last fall. If I quit I don't get unemployment and I don't have another job lined up right now. So I need to be laid off. That way I'll have a few months to find a new job and still be able to pay the bills.
A company as big as where I work it takes some serious creativity. I've done nothing to be fired and I've even had great yearly reviews in the past so I'm in a strange spot as I'm technically a good employee.
Anyone else been in this position? Any good ideas on how to get laid off without being fired?
Also hilarious office prank stories are welcome as well.
Do these actually exist?Oh this is great! I'm in the same boat right now, except Property Management. So I look at indeed.com, craigslist.org, simplyhired.com, and any other site I can find to get me into a job I will actually enjoy EVERY SINGLE DAY.
for you i imagine it would be taste tester at budweiser...Do these actually exist?
Welll... the thought is that I might try for a couple of part time jobs--teaching ski lessons, teaching flute/piano lessons, some sort of program coordinator for camps... anything that gets me outside... hell, I'd LOVE to be a farmer! But I'm white, so I ask for too much money.Do these actually exist?
Send me the name of the government Contracting Officer's Rep for your contract... I've cut a bit of deadwood from our Lockheed-Martin, STEC, and Aerospace contracts - perhaps I can help you with your wish.Hey no argument with me. Where I work they've made promotions/raises really hard to get so lots of younger engineers (20s and early 30s) are leaving. I'm in that boat, I want out and in all likely hood will have to quit.
So with young, relatively cheaper and hard working engineers leaving who's left? We call them "Boomers". Typically 50+ guys who've been here for 25 or more years. They're all good old boys who won't get laid off due to seniority, make $125k+, don't do sh!t and won't quit because no one will pay them that much anywhere they go. They are coasting to retirement.
A friend and I talked about one guy who may worked 3 hours a day. He takes long lunches, goes for coffee and just talks with people all day. I got a look at his reviews the last 3 years; all extremely good. Literally pays to be friends with the boss.
In my group of roughly 2 dozen there are only 3 of us under 35, myself included, and I bet the average age with the rest is around 55. The last 6 of 7 who've quit have been under 35 and the one old guy retired. No one has been laid off or fired.
I only wish we could get their beer in COtaster at Mac N Jacks?
Yeah right. I work in analysis. We are short staffed as it is (which is why I'm having trouble getting laid off), a government audit is not going to cut anyone. We've even pulled 2 guys out of retirement for help.Send me the name of the government Contracting Officer's Rep for your contract... I've cut a bit of deadwood from our Lockheed-Martin, STEC, and Aerospace contracts - perhaps I can help you with your wish.
Laid off not fired. And see comments a few pages back. Not worth it in the least.Sexual Harassment.