Turns out it was the beancounters who saw a chance to save $$$ by getting rid of expertise. I was picked up by a company that saw my skills value and potential. I was extremely grateful (12 years ago) and my gratitude has been turned into productive activity for them. The ex-employer has sunk into a festering cesspool and I wouldn't choose to work there now if they doubled my salary. Amazing how these MBA's can filter everything by the $$$ and miss the mark on how what they do affect the total health of the company they supposedly are representing. Most of them (like the Brown Shirts) were the next on the chopping block, so Karma proves again that it's an itch...
I started my own brokerage business, doing the same things I was doing for a major energy company. Now I work from home when I want to, make my own coffee and skip the weekly rah rah.
I file taxes quarterly, tho...
Same thing I got. I was one of only a few laser test engineers nationwide for a company in California. Shortly after I was laid off I received a call from my young replacement. He was wanting to pick my brain on the equipment. I told him to work hard and read everything he could get his hands on during his own time. He’d pick it up over time while gaining experience in the ever evolving field. He wanted me to just tell him how to fix it! I told him I was let go so the company effectively said I was no longer needed. You’ll figure it out. He told me to “f” off and hung up.
“Amazing how these MBA’s can filter everything by the $$$ and miss the mark on how what they do affect the total health of the company they supposedly are representing. Most of them (like the Brown Shirts) were the next on the chopping block...”
Except for those who manage to get promoted before the effect of their short-sighted, resume-serving decisions come home to roost. Those geniuses get to screw up things from an even broader perspective.
I will be 61 in 2019 and have a manager (hired several years ago) who got rid of all the original people in my dept and nearly 20 more since who were hired then fired or driven off like the others with me the only one left. He did try to get rid of me too by treating me and the others like dirt. He still bad mouths those in the dept. He only fired one person last year.....
I figure I file a age discrimination suit if I do lose my job. I figure he slowed down the firings as it made him look bad to his bosses plus his boss has a new boss who fired several hire ups so he and his boss do not want to make waves.
Bean counters know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. A company where I used to work is just about totally mismanaged out of business one cut at a time.
The best thing to do is to compete against them.