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Originally Posted by Richard B
Another reason to choose your next president very, very carefully.
I think your whining is a bit misplaced. At least you have a job now, at least you got a raise. Sure, it's not much, but it's more than you had yesterday. I have never heard of "pre-walking" papers. Are you in sales? If so, sounds like a sales threat to motivate current personnel. If this is true, February is quite a bit of time away to actually have an income and look for other possibilities if you indeed feel your job will be gone in February.
Most jobs are not sacred, nor last forever regardless of your pay scale.
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Hey Richard,
Oh I know...I guess I was whining a bit. I didnt mean to, just more or less say whats been going on. They told us all in a big meeting that "come February" the head chopping is starting. I work for Geek Squad (now owned by Best Buy). So its not just ME that will be out of work, but many others. They are also cutting heads at the store level (I do not work in a Best Buy store).
And what I really should have said was...what I DO as a line of work...well, I could go Circuit City, or HH Gregg or one of those places. But, if Best Buy is going to fold in that department so will they. Best Buy consistently outperforms other electronics retailers and places as such that offer those services that go with them.
I mean, I could always work for a cable company or something. What I meant by "pre" walking papers was that we've all been given X amount of time to improve (and there's still no guarantee of work come February). What they'll do is out of the 19 of us in the area, the "underperformers" will be cut. (Most likely 8-9 of us based on numbers).
And yeah at least I DID get a raise. It's just that in my 6 years with the company (in total) that I've never got a raise that crappy (on such a "high" review score).