Fck The Economy!!

[Beerizfood]

Its going to get worse for auto techs,only because of the Chrysler and GM dealership closings.There will be a surplus of techs,sales,service,support people etc.
Im a Nissan tech in a fairly large shop and we just hired a Saturn guy (their shop foreman) to work for us.The Saturn dealer closed.They scooped him for $2.00/less than what we get and hes happy to get it.There will be alot more of these poor bastards soon.
Personally i dont think we get enough/hour for what we do compared to other skilled trades and having a line up of good quality people ready to replace you for less bucks is not a good thing.I hope it doesnt drive our wages down.
For you guys being canned and laid off ? I can feel for ya.Best of luck, things will turn around.

[CaymenEGT91]

if you havent watched zeitgeist yet i suggest you do

Trust me i watched.... i listened... i absorbed... and my eyes changed towards alot of things

[90prtege]

yea its a eye opener thats for damn sure

[1st Gen]

A brand new Dodge dealership opened up across the street from me last month. Today we find out it's closing.

Sucks man, sorry to hear about your job.

[martiniac]

I get canned about a month ago. Never late to work, always set the precident for quality & production. Unemployment sucks but it's better than nothing!!

[Uncaged91]

I'm really sorry to hear about that. It s**ks. No matter where you work, what you earn, or how good a relationship you may seem to have with an employer, you are always gonna a be JUST and employee. Meaning you will always be making money for them at your own expense. And "you" will be the one to acrue the physical damage and emotional baggage, for life. If you really want to make it in this world, you need to find your own path and build on that. Find a way to be self employed and self efficiant. Then you can truely prosper and be happy The news media drives so much of what goes on in our country, and others. When a "news media" says that we are in a recession, over and over, then people tend to believe what they here. Wether it's true or not. It gets driven into our heads on a daily basis, so people drive themselfs into a bad place because they are being told to do so. They are the herders, and we are the sheep. I'm not gonna get into the politics of it because politics s**k! I wish you well and hope you can find a way to move on and be successfull.

[Turpro]

That's 1 reason I won't work for a big company. They don't know you and don't care if they let you go because they don't see your family and all you do for them. If they did(like small business) knew what you do everyday after work they would do their damnedest to keep you employed.

[CaymenEGT91]

If they did(like small business) knew what you do everyday after work they would do their damnedest to keep you employed.

Obviously my boss missed that part....

[1992tracerlts]

That's 1 reason I won't work for a big company. They don't know you and don't care if they let you go because they don't see your family and all you do for them. If they did(like small business) knew what you do everyday after work they would do their damnedest to keep you employed.

I worked for a small business, just a small shop with 10 people working. They tried their hardest to keep me there, but finally work slowed down too much. The nice thing is we have monthly meeting to tell us, how much work we are getting, and what projects we were bidding on. Well when the economy took a poop, places were so desperate for work they were bidding at cost, so no profit, and some places were even loosing money on bids. Our shop couldnt afford to do that. The thing that hurt me is the credit situation. We had disk frames for farming lined up until next winter. Well over in the places they sold in europe they quit financing people. So nobody could buy farm equipment. And they cancled all of their orders through us. And that was the main thing we were relying on. And after only working there for 9 months I was the last person to be laid off. A couple guys had been their since the beginning got laid off before I did. I just sucks. And now all this flooding in the midwest is not helping me out any. Because there is a ton of acres of farm land that is unusable this year, so that means farmers wont be buying new equiptment, because they arnt making any money. It just sucks. And its hard as hell to get a job paying what I was making 13 an hour at the age of 19 with no college. I cant even get a 9 dollar an hour job.

[frogi323]

man i lucked out with my job. ive been a stagehand for 10yrs now always making

19+ an hour (depending on the venue). no matter how crappy the economy gets

you will always need entertainment to keep your spirits up. if you live in or around

a major city then check out the local stagehand union. i dont know if they gonna

hire you but if they do its well worth it.

here is the main website

http://www.iatse-intl.org/home.html

[superscort93]

Trust me i watched.... i listened... i absorbed... and my eyes changed towards alot of things

I have never heard of that one....just downloaded it and watched it...good movie.

[cat34evr]

Don't burn any bridges. As tempting as it may be to tell off your boss that just handed you a pink slip, he is the most likely one to hire you back when things turn around. I left one job over ten years ago on bad terms and I regret it.

On a happier note, we are now having to update our boss with our projected productivity for the week every Monday. Yeah, I can feel the axe over my head already. Good luck everybody, it's rough out there!