Well, I'm still here
I'm still employed, but my company laid off nine people here today (and more in the related offices in Iowa and Texas, I believe).
We got the information from our managers this morning, in brief meetings by group, with not much information. At 2:00, the CEO held a company-wide meeting in which he basically said all the expected things about it being difficult, and the economy, and that the company will be okay in the long run.
I hope so, but our specific niche depends almost entirely on state education budgets.
Nobody is feeling very cheerful here. (The laid-off people are already out of here, including one who got a call asking him to come in on a day he had taken as personal time off. I don't know how much they told him over the phone.)
We got the information from our managers this morning, in brief meetings by group, with not much information. At 2:00, the CEO held a company-wide meeting in which he basically said all the expected things about it being difficult, and the economy, and that the company will be okay in the long run.
I hope so, but our specific niche depends almost entirely on state education budgets.
Nobody is feeling very cheerful here. (The laid-off people are already out of here, including one who got a call asking him to come in on a day he had taken as personal time off. I don't know how much they told him over the phone.)