Layoffs are abound and NG is not immune to it. The AS sector announced that they will be laying off 750 employees, although there are still 800+ positions open. Most of those open positions will hopefully be back filled by those being laid off. I saw the company spam mail asking for volunteers to fire themselves first before HR comes hunting for them with an ax. At least they’re being nice about it, although neither choices are pleasant. The layoffs come as part of the restruct/merge of our sectors earlier this year. Our old sector, MS, merged with IT (I think), so I figure our newly formed sector, whatever it is called, will be cutting back on staff as well. How naive of me to think that the restructuring was meant to save money vis a vis printing consolidated business cards.
As for me, things are looking alright but I don’t want to get too optimistic. I found out today that I did indeed get a raise, most likely because 750 people aren’t. But I’ll take what I can right now, especially since the raise will merely counteract the increased taxes be hit with next month.
Off topic, but did anyone realize that LA held its city election on Tuesday? Supposedly only 250k of the 1 million registered voters of the 10 million residents of LA voted. The voters of this city are too apathetic – a = pathetic. Throw me in that bunch since I didn’t vote, but at least I blogged about it.
Man, I knew there was a stupid election, but only because they were using the boys & girls club as a voting site so we had no hoops on Tuesday. Count me in that bunch too…