Happy Labor Day?
My hours were cut from 40 per week last week to 16 per week going forward. Since 16 hours per week is not considered full time, I do not get paid for Labor Day. I am the Accounting Manager of a small government contractor that relied on six contracts in my three years at the company. Two of them have gone away and no one has the urgency to find new contracts. Our salesperson is tied up in little league this and that and day-trading on company time, the owner has too much going on using the company credit card for all things not company related, yet the contracts continue to die away. Over a year ago, I began giving management a "billing backlog" report at the end of every month. When I did I continued to re-iterate that if we do not receive a new contract soon, we would be out of a backlog by the end of 2014. Voila, four months to go and we won't make it to the end of November. I'll be 67 years old next week. Who is going to hire someone my age coming from a company that has failed? I have loads of experience but there is no one here who wants to listen to what I have to say. They don't want to hear the "reality" of our plight; they only want to place their hopes on something that cannot begin until we receive the written word that we won a contract. I received a phone call from a recruiter the other day wanting to know if I was looking for work. I didn't respond with a yes or no but with a "why should I" attitude. His answer was that he heard our company was going under. So, words on the street, I am looking for work, but - again - who wants to hire someone with 40 years experience in accounting when 20 will do and the possibility of getting a career employee out of that younger one is maybe a better bet because of age.
Fuck the employer. Fuck Labor Day.
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