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Jobs: A Special Report
In spite of what the Democrats are slinging at the President, the rhetoric does not reflect exactly how bad things are. In fact, the comparison to Herbert Hoover as the last President that did not create jobs might even be misconstrued as good thing by the White House in their "Up is Downism" twisting of the facts. The politics are in place and their effects will be long ranging.
Below you will find a few simple ideas that should help you if you still have a job and if you've lost yours, some suggestions on how to find something different. Unemployment Survival
Too many factors played a roll in your dismissal from your duties for company XYZ. The economy has played a major role in downsizing and customers dried up, sucking in their own purchasing departments like some sort of backdraft. This stop in spending by customers leads to the simple conclusion reached by many other companies as well. You control costs with inventory and labor. Labor is used to produce inventory. You were no longer needed. Manufacturing took the greatest hit and any recent pop in numbers does not reflect a return to employment in manufacturing any time soon. Jobs will increase steadily in service sectors, retail (albeit briefly throughout the holidays) and in the health care industry. The tech jobs will recover when productivity begins to suffer. productivity, not to get off topic has given employers something to think about for the time being. The number is up without rehiring. This means that the staff that was left is working harder and longer hours to produce what more people did. This is a technological advance that will further hinder employers from rehiring all too soon. So when the cuts came, every part of the company's operation was eyeballed for over-employment relative to future costs. Managers on every level, high ranking professionals were pink slipped, and technical workers, the backbone of growth in the new century were cast asunder with all of the rest of the nine million other workers. This across the board firing was unprecedented. Then worse news started circulating. Those jobs were not coming back. Laid off always had such a temporary sound to it. No longer. This is a psychological hurdle that America has faced in recent history. There is little comfort in knowing that you are not alone. There is little comfort in knowing that every month, 100,000 new faces show up in the labor force ready to work for far less than you can survive on. The first part of your strategy should be calm, cool, and collective behavior when the shoe drops. Let's not burn any bridges, create any scenes or go off blaming yourself for poor performance. It may have been the size of your paycheck, based on past accomplishments that was the culprit. The one thing you should do is ask if there is a severance package. It might be possible that there is. Your failure to request something as an exit payment will not be offered by the person doing the firing. They are just as uncomfortable as you. So ask. Then go to the unemployment office.
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