Job Security in Uncertain Times

How secure is your job?

  • I've already been laid off

    Votes: 3 9.1%
  • The chances are good I will be laid off

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't know, it could go either way

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • I think my job is safe, but I still worry a little

    Votes: 11 33.3%
  • I am pretty sure that my job is safe

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • Self Employed - Outlook Good

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • Self Employed - Outlook Bad

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • I'm safe, if we can keep the doors open

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .

SteelMaiden

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#1
We have several threads going with topics like longevity, the economic impact on our business, etc. I was wondering what the climate was for Quality Professionals in this economic climate.
 
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silentrunning

#2
Our incoming orders have picked up considerably from the December slow down. We are only about 3% behind last year. Now, if we can just stay there!!!
 

SteelMaiden

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#4
Good Idea! Thanks Mark, I am sometimes rather short sighted. This allows us to catch most of our inhabitants here on the Cove.
 

Marc

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#5
Well, I'm the "Self Employed - Outlook Good". But that's only because I'm essentially retired and debt free.

I AM worried about many people, though. So many people seem to be really loosing it, and the predictions are that job losses may exceed 51 million world wide. My biggest concern is that the US has no significant manufacturing base left. I believe service industries are going to take a lot longer to recover.

I don't know what to say. I never expected to see a fiasco of this magnitude in my life.
 
F

Fencick

#6
I think that an option was missed:

I'm safe, if we can keep the doors open.

It's touch and go at times.
 
H

Howard Lee

#9
I think that an option was missed:

I'm safe, if we can keep the doors open.

It's touch and go at times.
I'm with Fencick on this. I do two or three jobs at work that nobody wants to touch. The powers that be just have to keep in mind that they still want them to get done.

I heard somewhere that our current goverment leaders are looking at all of the repair that our infrastructure needs and the fact that people need jobs. If the job tanks, I'm still a decent bulldozer and backhoe operator and I have a Class A CDL. I went to the technical college that I was attending when I got this job and found out that I have six classes to finish to be a civil engineering technician. I enrolled in two of them and started week before last.

I don't have anything now that I haven't lost in the past. If things go badly I will continue on my journey.
 
D

domingue

#10
Fortunately, I feel pretty safe.

Even through the difficult economy and the Boeing strike, we continue to do very well. Both Corporate HQ and my particular Business Unit have positioned themselves very well. We’ve had some layoffs on the manufacturing floor recently, but those were due to the opening of a new facility down in Mexico. We’ve taken some precautionary measures (40% reduction in travel being the most visible from down here at the bottom of the org chart as a lowly QE), but it seems like it’s more to prevent problems than to solve existing ones.
 
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