Work Sucks!!!!

[alleycat]

So my company is doing pretty poorly this fiscal year. It is nearing the end of the 4th quarter. We are supposedly 15 million $$ behind budget. I got a meeting notice at 3pm yesterday. It was sent out to my entire dept of 1200 people. They usually record the meetings and you can watch them but this one they arent. It is for today from 4-415 pm. It is mandatory too. I dont think it is going to be good news at all. I am fearing layoffs. 3 weeks ago they all of a sudden decided to split my group I work with in half. There are only 4 of us. They were going to send 2 to another dept and keep 2. They didnt tell us who and said they would take 2 weeks to think about it. 2 weeks was up on Tuesday and they hadnt made a decision. Then Weds we got this email about the mandatory meeting. Everyone is freaking out and it's really uncomfortable at work. No one knows whats going on. The guy that called the meeting is way high up too, like right under the VP. This is what it says...

From:
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:14 PM
To:
Cc: Mann, Michelle; Stroik, Meghan; Slanicky, Melissa; Hamling, Monica; Scholl, Dawn; Sommerfeldt, Donna
Subject: Core Development All Employee Meeting: FY08 Plans
When: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:00 PM-4:15 PM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada).
Where: CRMW Griffin Auditorium
Importance: High

MANDATORY Employee Meeting for all employees in John Doe's Organization

Video Conferencing Available:
N Gramsie - Training Room A & B
Arden Hills East - Training Room A & B
Arden Hills West - Training Room A & B

**Note: This meeting willnot be recorded so it is important that you attend in person or at one ofthe sites with video conferencing**

 

[Homer]

yep sounds like someone going to get screwed , my wife went threw it over the last 6 months and after over 25 years had to hand in a resume to keep her job , some lost ther job and it got so bad that others just left , i'd be wondering why your meeting wont be recorded.

 

[alleycat]

exactly. most all of our meetings are live on the web tv that we have internally. I dont know how they are planning on getting 1200 people in this meeting room. it's not that big. maybe 500 people max.
Bad signs:
short notice, no description of what its about, manditory, not recorded, high importance, end of the day, end of fiscal year, and short meeting.
everyone is just sweating here today. no one is working at all. just gossiping and discussing what its about. if it's layoffs, wouldnt they make the meeting a bit longer and only invite those being laid off?

 

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[Mrs Behavin]

Where I work is doing the SAME exact thing! You work at a hospital too right?

We just had a meeting (several of them so everyone could make it) with the CEO of the hospital and he said that the hospital is $7 million in the hole. I just dont get how that can be. I guess from people not paying their bills.

So they just let a bunch of people go that worked in housekeeping. They shut down the business office. There is a few other changes they made too but I cant remember exactly what it was. Im just glad to have a job right now !!!!!

 

[alleycat]

I just got this from my coworker about 2 other coworkers who are retiring. OMG!!
I work in the medical field. I work in development though. You may have heard about all the cardiac devices recalled within the last year or so? Yeah... not good to the industry at all.


Tom said that John Marek and Jan Boldenow withdrew their retirement papers in the hope that if they offer early retirement, they might get a better deal.

 

[Homer]

Where I work is doing the SAME exact thing! You work at a hospital too right?

We just had a meeting (several of them so everyone could make it) with the CEO of the hospital and he said that the hospital is $7 million in the hole. I just dont get how that can be. I guess from people not paying their bills.

So they just let a bunch of people go that worked in housekeeping. They shut down the business office. There is a few other changes they made too but I cant remember exactly what it was. Im just glad to have a job right now !!!!!

my wife works for a bunch of hospitals in billing , alot of them are having a hard time and are going out of buisness because of illgals and others that wont go to a doctor for care, we need some changes made and soon.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Yes we do Homer! I totally agree with that.

I work at a Catholic hospital (no Im not catholic) and there are nuns that work there too (just a handful though) and there was this one Sister Mary Rowland who was someone that made that place what it was (she kept it going and things were great. It was a great place to work at) But then about a yr ago she got a offer at another catholic hospital in St Louis, MO. Im not joking with you, ever since she left, St Josephs (where I work) has gone completely downhill.

 

[alleycat]

25 minutes till the meeting... Im sweating.
I will keep y'all posted....

 

[alleycat]

as suspected... lay offs...
dont know who or for sure if it will happen until the end of april.

 

[Homer]

it would be nice if everyone new so they could use the time to look for a new job , i guess that would be to human/caring .

 

[alleycat]

ya that was nice of them. they were polite about it.