Over the last three years, households with incomes of $75,000 and up have experienced a dreary, often harsh employment landscape. In more than one-quarter of these households, someone has lost a job.
A freshly laid-off personal finance blogger demonstrates how to deal with the situation like a pro—because the last thing you want to do is make a bad situation worse by burning bridges. Tip one: Suppress the urge to punch anyone in the face.
When you get laid off, someone inevitably tells you that you’ll soon be telling people that being fired was the best thing that ever happened to you. Your knee-jerk reaction to such a statement might be, “Easy to say from somebody who has a job,” or perhaps “Go away before I cram your face in [...]
Apparently, there are good ways and bad ways to fire people. From the company’s perspective, layoffs go well if no one sues. From the employee’s perspective, there are really just bad ways and worse ways to handle layoffs. But if you are laid off, don’t simply accept whatever papers are pushed in front of you [...]
It’s etiquette time. The day when someone you’ve worked with for years, or even for a few months, gets walked to the door with a box of personal items (and perhaps some pilfered notepads and pens) is awkward, to say the least. Since layoffs are so commonplace nowadays, it behooves everyone to have a clue [...]
If you’re out of work, or on the brink of being out of work—and who isn’t nowadays?—there’s no shortage of stories to read about other people’s layoffs and Plan B career attempts.
Welcome to The Cheapskate Blog. What is my secret to saving money? The gist is: Don’t be a chump.
A new online survey from Right Management, which says it’s “the world’s leading provider of integrated human capital consulting services and solutions across the employment lifecycle”: 1. Downsizing or restructuring (54%) 2. Sought new challenges or opportunities (30%) 3. Due to ineffective leadership (25%) 4. Poor relationship with manager (22%) 5. To improve work/life balance [...]
Over the past few years, my employer has imposed a few rounds of layoffs. During the run-up, we were encouraged to visit with our human resources department if we wanted to inquire about taking a package. We were assured absolute, air-tight, witness-protection-program secrecy if we chose to do so. Who needs our bosses knowing we’re [...]
It’s been one of those weeks. It started out crazy, then got insane, and finally spun out of control. The work load is driving us mad, and when I walk the corridors I see my colleagues look pooped. That is, except for the ones who are leaving. They look refreshed, rejuvenated and positively sparkly. Like [...]
What will I blog about if I’m canned? I’ve been mulling this over ever since my company announced layoffs last week. I wasn’t terminated in the first sweep, but I could well be if enough people in my category don’t volunteer to vamoose. Being booted won’t be the end of the world, I think. But [...]
