And I suppose that will be that
I suppose I should start from somewhat of the beginning.
The printing industry has been sucking for most of the summer. According to published reports, it has sucked longer, and harder than ever before. Summers are usually a slow time for the print industry, but this seemed to border on absoloute insanity. The “summer-slowdown” started earlier, lasted longer, and fell harder than any other year in remembered history. Many of those questioned said it was the worst in “the past 10 years” if I recall correctly.
Well, seeing as how my, now former, boss is one to jump onto bandwagons later than most, finally decided to cut back hours of everyone who worked there. One of the two pressmen was temporarly laid off, and both myself and my office coworkers were cut from 40+ hours a week to 28 hours per week, if we were lucky. Stupidity at it’s finiest really. How does one truly expect that sales will go up, if customer service is dropping to record lows?
Alas, it was ineveditable that one of us in the office had to go, and it seemed rather anti-climactic that it ended up being me. I received a voice mail explaining that an e-mail had been sent to me, which explains that I had been laid off indefinitely due to lack of work. Called my office co-worker immediately afterwards for her to be just as shocked and appalled about the news as I was, seeing as how she was in the office the Friday this occured.
But who am I to judge? When a company reacts as slowly as this one does, it’s common sense.
I’m just glad I had an excuse to jump ship when I could, as opposed to standing with it sinking all around me.
