Please take this advice: always be ready to jump ship

[Mbrow]

43. Good Post, and

this is not new. My wife and I ran into it 20 years ago when we were working at Litton Software, (industrial automation) I had found out they were laying off programmers the next monday on friday so we were able to clear out my wife's desk that weekend. What was really amazing about the whole thing was how they did it, the people who were laid off were called into a conference room, not allowed to go back to their desks because they might "do something", made them sit all day for "training", then escorted back to their desk to allow them to clear it out after the other people had left for the day. As I pointed out to the controller of the division (I was a little pissed at the time on how they tried to treat my wife) that this was BS to treat these people this way, they were professionals, they were not going to screw things up because they were laid off, but they might if you continued to fuck with them. My wife basically got up and left for home when they told her she was laid off, this is what started the talk between the controller and I, he said my wife was not playing by the "rules". I pointed out to the Idiot that they had laid my wife off but not me, not that I would do anything but I was in a position to do a hell of a lot more damage then any of the programmers at the time. Also the programmers all had home access to clients software data bases and could totally fuck any of them, did they bother to inform the clients so they could change the access passwords? Of course not and several client were really pissed off when they found out, one company hire two of the programmers to work for them. I left several month later. Now I work through my Union ( AMO) so all my Medical and pension are thru them and not tied to any one Company.