Thank you to everybody for all the kind words. I am glad that my company is giving me one more full pay and then I have signed up for unemployment so that will help out for a while until I can find something else. I had free benefits for my husband and I at my job so they are going to continue them until the end of december which was nice.
I went online yesterday and applied for 3 QA jobs and my friend is trying to get me in where she works at Highmark so I hope one of those work out. I cant say I really loved my job that much but the pay was good and it was fairly low stress even though I thought my boss was an idiot.
When I first started at this place I came in and told my boss what they needed to do to make the QA team better and to be more productive and he basically just ignored everything I said. After a while I just stopped offering suggestions but I found it ironic that just recently the suggestions I made were becomingn processes and of course my boss was taking the credit for them.
Then last week my boss and I had a meeting where he asked me when I would be done testing this application that I had been working on for a few weeks. I told him it would be done in about 2 week s and he bitched at me how it needed to be done right away which didnt make sense since it wasnt due until December. So this past week I worked really hard and was just about finished testing and then they let me go. I really should have seen that coming, that is why they wanted me to hurry up and finish what I was working on. The people at that place didnt know how to run a business and I forsee them closing in the next year.
David, I think I am going to check into the contact/temp jobs too in my field. Thats a good idea to do that until I can find something more permanent. Its just crazy it seems that everybody I know is getting laid off these days.
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