When you and I collide

[synapticjava]

Hello, update. Life's been crazy lately. And it was all good, believe it or not, up until friday. Me and Tom are doing really great. A couple weekends ago, he came and visited and we threw a pretty successful party. I paid off a couple of my credit cards, and my credit rating shot up, which was good news.

And then Friday I lost my job.

Officially, until the 26th I still work for OfficeMax, but after that my position no longer exists. I, and about 3,000 other employees, have been terminated. I was handling it pretty well, until it hit me today the possiblities of me finding a job making that much money are pretty slim. So now the bills are adding up in my head. I honestly am not quite sure what way to turn. Jobhunting for me is the worst thing in the world, which is why I've been with officemax for so long anyway. The market right now is crap, because my company is only one of thousands doing mass terminations.

I'm trying to stay positive. I was given a four week severance, which can get me through until the end of August if I tighten the budget and gas stays below $5. And I have a degree that has to be worth something to someone. But on the other hand, if I haven't been able to find something better for the last two years, why would now be so different?

Comments

[wilde-moon.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. As if there was anyone less deserving of being touched by the world's current state of Epic Fail. I'm so sorry, dude.

But who knows. Maybe it'll work out. Maybe you'll find something better, something you actually like.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

It happens. I figure - now I don't have a choice, I *have* to find something better.

[caviling]

Sheeyit. Sorry to hear about the job loss but confident something better will manifest.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Thanks, lovely. Hope you and the hubs are doing well!

[frolic9.livejournal.com]

Yie. :( Yet another reason I feel we should all move to Canada.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

The only thing is - Canada's sliding into the poorhouse too. Don't get me wrong, I think we should still move there.

[tabaqui]

Yeeesh!
That sucks, bay-bee.
*hugs you*

*crosses everything*

I'm happy to hear you and Tom are still motoring along.
:)

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you sweetheart! You never stop coming through:)

We hit a rough(ish) patch a while ago, but then we came out even better. He's a pretty amazing guy.

Las Vegas OfficeMax is very bad

[(Anonymous)]

Hello chocgood84,

I know exactly how you feel because I'm number 2,777 of 3000 that's in the pool of possible unemployed OfficeMax associates.

Out here in Las Vegas we have a very big (320lbs)OfficeMax district manager named Don Schmidt. The only thing I remember him teaching managers and supervisors over the years was how he compared OfficeMax's endcaps to the Chips Ahoy! endcaps in grocery stores. He goes on to explain that if an endcap in the supermarket is packed full of cookies he grabs (2) bags and that OfficeMax's customers think the same way.

Although I still have a job until at least the 26th, my OfficeMax will be cutting 2 or 3 mangers/sups from the 5 we have in the store. Two of those people have put in at least 12 years with OMAX and two more with at least 4 years.

I remember watching a company video this year titled "Employees First".

What a joke.

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Who are we? (liars)
What are we? (1-1=0)

*This month is OfficeMax's Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender month. It's completely wrong that they can spend money making their GAY and transgender video plus make it MANDATORY that every single OfficeMax employee has to watch the 5 min. video.


40,000 employees X 5 min. = [200,000 min X (average hourly wage)]

OfficeMax is very, very bad....