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dancerjodiI was laid off today. After working for the company for 5 years. I'm not sure how many the company as a whole let go but I was told that positions were cut all over the place. After meeting with my boss and her director, a recruiting consultant and an HR rep I saw the line of people in the waiting area of HR all waiting to get in behind me. Most had kleenexes.
I did pretty good, cleaned out all things accumulated over this long long time (I only forgot the lunch bag that I had left in the fridge). I talked with my friend Melanie for a while and she helped me bring stuff out to my car. Before that though my Manager came by to give me a hug, ask me to send me a copy of my resume to forward on to friends of hers and say she was sorry and felt awful that she had to do this.
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I called B and told him the news and he turned around on the Mass Pike and headed home to keep me company. He was closer to Framingham so he got here first in time to take a call from Melanie - one of our old co-workers that left the company to go work for Blue Cross a while back I guess needs people and she wanted to give me the information. After talking a bit, B and I went to feed the ducks in Wellesley (like we always used to, like I did when I was a kid) only to find that they don't allow duck feeding there anymore.
So this afternoon I'll try and get my resume in order and do lots of searching. I was even given a list of openings at the company to see if I want to try and get back in - but I'm not sure about what I'll do. I was invited to some professional development/recruitment seminar which will be all day tomorrow and Thursday but I think I may skip it. I'm confident in my ability to write a good resume and sell myself. Its just been a REALLY long time since I've had to do that.
We'll be OK; with severance and vacation time I'll be paid until mid-January. I just really wasn't looking to do a job search right now.
On the bright side, I guess this means I'll have lots of time to work on stuff for school at least for the next couple of weeks :/
I did pretty good, cleaned out all things accumulated over this long long time (I only forgot the lunch bag that I had left in the fridge). I talked with my friend Melanie for a while and she helped me bring stuff out to my car. Before that though my Manager came by to give me a hug, ask me to send me a copy of my resume to forward on to friends of hers and say she was sorry and felt awful that she had to do this.
****
I called B and told him the news and he turned around on the Mass Pike and headed home to keep me company. He was closer to Framingham so he got here first in time to take a call from Melanie - one of our old co-workers that left the company to go work for Blue Cross a while back I guess needs people and she wanted to give me the information. After talking a bit, B and I went to feed the ducks in Wellesley (like we always used to, like I did when I was a kid) only to find that they don't allow duck feeding there anymore.
So this afternoon I'll try and get my resume in order and do lots of searching. I was even given a list of openings at the company to see if I want to try and get back in - but I'm not sure about what I'll do. I was invited to some professional development/recruitment seminar which will be all day tomorrow and Thursday but I think I may skip it. I'm confident in my ability to write a good resume and sell myself. Its just been a REALLY long time since I've had to do that.
We'll be OK; with severance and vacation time I'll be paid until mid-January. I just really wasn't looking to do a job search right now.
On the bright side, I guess this means I'll have lots of time to work on stuff for school at least for the next couple of weeks :/
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Date: 2002-10-15 11:18 am (UTC)