Laid off !!!!!

Chris_82

ditto, no one has a guantee that they will always be employed, this is the construction buisness after all when the job is done move on...ask any union fitter how many times they have been laid off...at least when they get laid off they have union benifits and some money in the bank...unlike the last few clowns at DEnron that said we have employment for life and then showed us the door when they recently sold the company!

Jeffreyk4

looking for a new job

Does anyone in the boston are need a good oil tech that can service and install. I am licenced with 10 yrs exp, please send an e-mail if instrested. can also do a/c and wiring.

Jeffreyk4

looking for a new job

Does anyone in the boston are need a good oil tech that can service and install. I am licenced with 10 yrs exp, please send an e-mail if instrested. can also do a/c and wiring. my e-mail jeffreyk4@verizon.net

rjm

how?

if your such a good tech. how and why were you laid off?

JohnNY

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JoeV_2

That's unnecessary roughness

Business could be failing.

These days being laid off has little to do with the person affected.

It does not have the same stigma it used to.

Gene_3

LAID OFF

In this economy equipment sales are down, so is home remodeling and building and that affects us.

If you aren't trying to sell equipment or repairs when you do annual maintenance, you could end up with no work in times like these.

I am of the opinion that a tech that just does maintenance and NEVER sells repairs or new equipment should be canned.

Of course a savvy business man should give incentives to his crew to sell, either a % or flat rate.


Having said that I have had students that were laid off, they were told there was a lack of work.

There wasn't, there was a problem and the boss did not want to confront it, and we call a check for the real reasons.

I am not saying that this has anything to do with this gentlemen, he sounds like he wants a new job bad, so good luck.

The reasons I have heard from owners though are

late 40 days out of 60 and never calling

tired of asking him to pull up his pants and tuck in his shirt (remember, we are in customer service)

too many trips out to the truck to smoke a cigarette,

or,

everytime I send him out to the truck to get a part he stops to grab a smoke and I have to wait

and attitude

to my shock we have not had one student laid off because of a lack of technical ability

I just wish the owners would talk to them before letting them go so don't keep repeating the same mistakes, as I once did.

Keith_8

employment

Jeff,
Good Luck,
Anyone with any time in the business has been where you are right now.

If I could offer any advise I would tell you to continue to develop your skill set. That statement covers alot of territory but you get the point.

Keith

Jeff Lawrence_25

Down South

Where I am, our lay-offs occur not long before Christmas! Our local design temps are 23° and it rarely hits that(except for the currently ending season).

Right now, companies are starting to look for new hires and re-hires for the upcoming cooling season. I've had a couple of people call me looking for a job.

jim lockard

Best of

Luck to you Jeff K hope you find a good one. J,Lockard

ChasMan

Work.

This is an interesting thread. As a homeowner, who recently had a hot water heater blow up one evening, and after calling 10 or so of the so called 24 hour emergency plumbers in the book, and not having had one call back, not even the next day, I find it hard to beleive that there is a lack of work in the industry.

I'm a software developer and we have no lack of work, just armies of low wage workers to compete with. I can guarantee you that if you call my firm at 6:00 pm with an issue, we pick up the phone at least.

Are things realy that slow out there now? I was thinking of switching careers.

Ken D.

Shortage

No, no shortage of work, just an over-abundance of stiffs running businesses. With customers being so hard to get, anyone who does not return a phone call must be very rich or very dumb.

Jack

I was in Sid Harvey's Danvers yesterday

Scott Oil had posted a help wanted ad. Good Luck!