Jobless Survey

Dan Gonzales

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Whittier, CA, USA
Hello All,

Just a curious survey request. If you are currently looking for work because your employer downsized your job out the door would you please post the following.

1. Your job.
2. The company or business type.
3. How long had you worked there.
4. How long have you been searching for work.
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated.

Sadly I will start:

1. Your job - Data Center Administrator
2. The company or business type - BEHR Paint (Corporate)
3. How long had you worked there - 6 years
4. How long have you been searching for work - 12 months
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated - Houses aren't selling, so no one is painting.
 
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1. Your job. Technical Writer/Editor. Held various other positions over the years, including Director of Technical Research (which was also the head of Tech Support) and Director of Product Development, but regardless of the title, I also handled all tech writing and editing.
2. The company or business type. Computer software, primarily defragmentation software
3. How long had you worked there. 17 1/2 years
4. How long have you been searching for work. 8 months
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated. Reduction in staff due to reduced sales figures. My duties were dumped on a new graphic designer with no writing or editing experience, who is paid less than I was.

I'm now at the point where I'm trying to decide if I really want to continue doing the same type of work, or if this is the time to try something completely different. :dunno:
 
Since I'm retired, this really doesn't apply to me...but
Job: International shipping manager
Company: An export packing company in Houston
How long: 10 years (total of over 40 years in business at various companies)
Search: Not looking at this time.... things could change
Why: Job wasn't eliminated... volunteerly left. (I was getting really tired of the grind)
 
1. Software engineer
2. Novell, Inc.
3. About five years
4. Exactly one year today, 'cept for a little part-time consultant work in the interim
5. They moved all the production & maintenance work for that project to Bangladesh.
 
1. Your job. - Scheduling Manager for engineering dept
2. The company or business type. - Weyerhaeuser, Engineered lumber/roof and floor systems
3. How long had you worked there. - 7 1/2 years-
4. How long have you been searching for work. - 7 months
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated. - Commercial real estate is in the dumper.

Prior to Weyerhaeuser I was a regional manager for an MRO outsourcing company, terminal manager for a small trucking company, and a purchasing agent for a community college.
 
Your form doesn't apply to use self employed types but my work is down to part time. 2 jobs a week is doing good for me. Hanging in there and have been able to devote a huge amount of time to the kayak biz startup. But my income is way down. Slow Real Estate sales are the reason.
 
1. Your job: Landscape Architect
2. The company or business type: Multi-discipline Engineering
3. How long had you worked there: 3 years, but 15 years in this profession
4. How long have you been searching for work: Since March
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated:Housing and commercial devevelopment ground to a halt...job is closely tied to new development and/or redevelopment
 
Job, Carpenter
Company, Most recently Sooke School board
worked there , 6 months
1 month looking for work but with prospects on the horizion and a possible call back next year.
Government cut backs as to the reason I am currently looking.

I have been in the business for over 25 yrs working for numerous different contractors and companies as well as being self employed. From residential construction and commercial up to Industrial. Mostly in Northern BC but the past 9 yrs here in Victoria. Like Jeff said this survey doesn't really apply to me. This is just the nature of the beast. Boom and bust. I have done lots of my own contracting but now that I am getting older and feeling the years of abuse I have puit my body through I classify myself as semi retired and work in my small shop building things for me and to sell. I look at it as a mini vacation and refuse to get stressed at what is going to happen. :thumb:
 
1. Your job.- Pilot
2. The company or business type.- NetJets Aviation - We operate a large fleet of corporate aircraft on basically a timeshare arrangement for our clients.
3. How long had you worked there. - 3 years
4. How long have you been searching for work. - It hasn't happened yet, the company has indicated that they will soon be furloughing. We are on a seniority based system and I'm junior enough that when they announce the number of furloughs, I expect to be in it.
5. Why do you think your job was eliminated. - Due to the wall street crash in late October '08, our demand has dropped off considerably, we are removing over 100 airplanes from the fleet and don't need the corresponding pilots to staff them anymore. All of the affected pilots will have unlimited recall rights, but it'll probably be more than a few years before they need us back.
 
1. Your job.

Machinist

2. The company or business type.

Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Company

3. How long had you worked there.

Two Years

4. How long have you been searching for work.

9 months...got a job on a tugboat and then got laid off again

5. Why do you think your job was eliminated.

We got a foster child and I was claiming many days under Family Medical Leave Act Laws as per allowed for the placement of foster children. I was laid off a week after filing for FMLA Laws. I know I was laid off because of the time missed even though allowed by law but there is no way to prove it.
 
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