Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being laid off again....
To   : Greenlfc
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jul 12 2022 09:14:18

  Re: Re: 3.5 weeks to being laid off again....
  By: Greenlfc to Nightfox on Tue Jul 12 2022 05:38 am

 Gr> I had a friend who worked temp jobs with Microsoft contractors for nearly
 Gr> 20 years. Their "cool down" period, or whatever they called it, was
 Gr> obnoxious. Every year or two you had to take three months away from
 Gr> Microsoft which left these folks in a perpetual state of flux, since there
 Gr> was no guarantee that their job would still be there after the break. 

Yeah, it can be tough that way with some companies.  :/  I used to work at <well-known chip maker> before being laid off in 2019, and they did that a lot with contractors.  I somehow was one of the ones that my team decided to hire as an actual company employee - but even then, they can lay off employees at any time, and there are still rules that you can't come back for a period of time.  I even heard that company has a limit to the number of times you can come back, even if it wasn't your decision to leave (i.e., you had been laid off).

I feel like there's generally no sense of loyalty in the industry anymore.

Nightfox
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