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on Job insecurity · c/humor · 60 pts · 141d

We had company wide layoffs in 2008, every department had to nominate x number of employees to terminate so the company could get below a spending level. I worked with a guy who was let go, excellent employee. I called his manager and questioned why he was let go because he did so much vital work. The manager said I was over reacting, the stats proved this guy doesn't do a lot of work so the manager will easily cover for him. 2 weeks later I followed up with the manager for some work which he was late on. He was panicking and admitted the work load was overwhelming. A month later the manager quit. The guy who was laid off was a great worker but terrible at recording service tickets. He was amazing at doing customizations for this specific software, so good that he was hired by that software company. Which meant my employer still had to contact him for help.

I had to check the date. It's been 4 years since the end of the Beijing winter Olympic, also known as the start of Russia's 3 day special military operation.

The class assignment was for each student to hook up their laptop to network equipment and run some diagnostics. I could see my classmate was having issues so after a few minutes I walked over to investigate. I advised him the usb cable will never fit in the ethernet port and that he should try the other 'hole' instead.