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This makes about the 4th time<\/strong> in the past 30 years, that I have come back from a vacation only to have BAD news waiting on me.  <\/p>\n

This time<\/strong>, when I got to my emails from work, I found the one<\/strong> \u201cstandby\u201d.  That usually only means one<\/strong> of two things.  1.  You\u2019re being cut  2.  You\u2019re being moved.<\/p>\n

This time<\/strong> it was \u201cwe are making a lot<\/strong> of changes and you don\u2019t need<\/strong> to come back\u201d.  That was about the meat of it, although there was a lot<\/strong> of other words said that is all I caught.  This time<\/strong> I had actually expected it for some months as we ended the current contract, I had prepared material for the next but it was not at a point<\/strong> to work out any details for a new contract and it would take maybe 6 months to get to that point<\/strong>.  I don\u2019t really think that I am as upset or \u201cburnt\u201d this time<\/strong> as I was the last<\/strong> time<\/strong> they cut me loose.  Since I expected this I had been mentally preparing for some time<\/strong>.  Financially, I am not as prepared but much better than before.  I had hoped to get to a point<\/strong> that I would not have to work at anything when they cut me again, knowing that they would, but I am not there yet. <\/p>\n

When you are older and higher paid you get cut first and they say there is no AGE discrimination but that is a crock of crap.  Three friends of mine were cut recently from the same location \u2013 two of them got right back on as consultants but the issues was age.  The company<\/strong> didn\u2019t fight at all against the in country requirement of retirement at 60.  Algerian law requires retirement at 60 but many Algerians work up to about 62 then go to work for outside companies that generally do not have to follow that rule but we have fallen in place<\/strong> and are dumping experience.  Actually it is a convenient way for the company<\/strong> to reduce payroll by swapping out old for new. <\/p>\n

I got my call<\/strong> late in the afternoon but I had known what the email meant so I had not made my trip<\/strong> to get supplies for the return trip<\/strong>.  I was ready but holding off with anticipation.  <\/p>\n

Back in 2002 I got about the same thing<\/strong>, I had asked to be off on a particular day<\/strong> and my boss said, no I needed to be there that day<\/strong> \u2013 warning #1.  I was in that day<\/strong> but nothing was happening that morning, so I went and asked and he said that the manager from Houston was in and had a phone conference but once that was done he needed to talk to me.  They made me wait nearly all day<\/strong> and at about 3pm they told me \u201cthey didn\u2019t need<\/strong> specialist anymore \u2013 they would hire consultants for the needs I was working on\u201d and escorted me out the door.  That one<\/strong> hit<\/strong> like a ton of bricks, even though I suspected it was coming it really hurt that time<\/strong>.  Fortunately I was called by another group, same company<\/strong>, about 2 weeks later to do the overseas job and that lasted 9 years \u2013 needed one<\/strong> more to get really close to fiscally safe. <\/p>\n

The two occasions before that were actually only one<\/strong> year<\/strong> apart.  Back in 1990, we come back from an August trip<\/strong> to the mountains and we hadn\u2019t been in the house<\/strong> for more than an hour and we got a phone call<\/strong> from a Real Estate Lady wanting to list our house<\/strong>?  For what?  I called my boss to ask if there was something I should know and he said that the company<\/strong> had decided to close our facility and most of us were moving to Pampa from Perryton<\/strong>.  He also stated that I was one<\/strong> of those to work out of Pampa but would maintain the Perryton<\/strong> area as my service site and come to the Pampa office<\/strong> as often as needed to conduct business.  <\/p>\n

That worked out ok but I still had my house<\/strong> listed for sale but with the collapse of the oil business and the total move of our group out there were way too many houses for sale and mine was just setting \u2013 not even showing enough to warrant having it listed?  I put up with that for a year<\/strong> and did way too much windshield time<\/strong> during that year<\/strong> as I worked now a triple size<\/strong> area and my office<\/strong> was 70 miles away.  I got a new company<\/strong> car in June before all that and by August the next year<\/strong> it had over 70,000 miles on it.  We survived and things worked ok but the very next August we get back from a trip<\/strong> to Colorado and I get a call<\/strong> about 2 hours later.  How the Hell do they know when I was coming and going<\/strong>?   That time<\/strong> I was told I needed to be in Duncan the next day<\/strong>.  I said I just got back and needed to get some clean clothes and stuff and what was I going<\/strong> for.  The answer \u2013 your moving, it is your new work station.  <\/p>\n

I talked them into a day<\/strong> allowance to let me get stuff packed to stay a few weeks and that was how I transferred to Duncan.  Another great situation.  I won\u2019t go into my living in a camp trailer there through the winter because we still could not sell the house<\/strong> as that is another story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This makes about the 4th time in the past 30 years, that I have come back from a vacation only to have BAD news waiting on me.  <\/p>\n

This time, when I got to my emails from work, I found the one \u201cstandby\u201d.  That usually only means one of two things.  1.  You\u2019re being cut  2.  You\u2019re being moved.<\/p>\n

This time it was \u201cwe are making a lot of changes and you don\u2019t need to come back\u201d.  That was about the meat of it, although there was a lot of other words said that is all I caught.  This time I had actually expected it for some months as we ended the current contract, I had prepared material for the next but it was not <\/p>\n

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