Happenings in the life of Jade...

[guardiandragon]

Let's see... Friday morning, after a great week at work, I get a phone call from my agency saying that I have been laid off due to budgeting problems, and that they cannot keep everyone over the holidays when the project that we are working on is being blacked out until after the new years. Apparently they drew from a hat instead of just laying

Comments

[ymasen]

ugh ((((hugs))))

There shoudl be a moratorium on laying people off at the holidays. Even if you don't "celebrate" it, just finding a job at December/January is damn difficult. :(

[elialshadowpine]

*blink* WTF kind of company decides to lay people off that they need for a project and then rehire them later? Way to show loyalty to your employees... particularly when they're keeping people that were slackers and letting go people who are doing their job. Do they honestly expect people to come back after that? Ugh.

If you're laid off as opposed to fired, can you look into unemployment? Or would that not count because you're going through an agency?

*hugs* and fingers crossed something better turns up for you.

[guardiandragon]

I've already applied, so hopefully it will start in the next 2 weeks. They were very adamant that I apply, because they plan to rehire everyone. The agency itself is not who laid us off, it's the project we are in that did it. My rep for the agency was PISSED and is currently looking for something else for me to do in the mean time. *sigh*

[elialshadowpine]

Right, I was talking about the company that you've contracting with (?) through the agency, not the agency itself. I really don't get how companies can do things like that, WANT the people back, and expect to GET them back. My concern would be that if they did it once (and over the fucking holidays, no less!) they'd do it again. I just don't get the mindset.

Glad that your agency rep is looking out for you. Hope s/he can find you something good. :)

[zigamorph]

You generally are not eligible for unemployment compensation if you were hired as a temporary worker in the first place, but there can be exceptions.

[silentbob11378]

i do hope that things get better.