Had a pretty bad day today. It started yesterday at work when the circus leaders ie. HR called an emergency meeting around 4 pm. They told us that the company was left in bad shape since the (long time CEO) suddenly resigned right before Christmas last year. We had all been wondering what was going on when he suddenly quit. There have been many changes on the production floor recently, like our plant manager being moved to a maintence job, the head of safety (band aid squad) got moved to a assembly job and many more no name people being moved to job titles that aren't needed. Well anyways they told us that they are doing some restructuring and some people would be loosing their jobs and we would know in the morning who would be affected. ( K rant time). Who in there right mind holds a meeting just to tell people they might be on the chopping block but won't know til the next morning if they still have a job to come back too? Was that just a bs move to make sure no one got any sleep last night because I can surely bet you I didn't get a wink of sleep. I was up all night worrying what was going to happen. Well, I got up and went to work just like any regular day hoping that this was all just a bad dream and I would be spared. Yea, not so much. They let 25 of us go today. 15 production floor workers, 5 office people and 5 salesmen. Yea, I was crushed. We just got our health insurance at the beginning of the month. I had been there 7 months and have been working overtime for the past 6 weeks. I don't get it, but I guess I would rather have to start over now then have to of put in 20 years there and be let go.
I was in tears on the way home knowing that my wife would be just as upset as I was. I had warned her and she was on the deck when I got home ready to let me cry on her shoulder. I feel so bad. I know I will find something else but in the meantime it hurts.
