Reply #88: That's so unfair!!

[boilerbabe]

I have been thru the wringer as far as employment goes, but have never been in your position, where I was a housewife and then got a job...
I think you were the unlucky scapegoat for sure...this has become a litigious society and ridiculously so..(I feel like I am mispelling most of my words, but the heart is still there) I lived in CA from age 19 to age 33, and I went through more jobs for more reasons than I could ever explain...but just remember this: No-one gives a shit, loyalty means nothing, and sad to say, good intentions do not make for job security. I have just been lucky these past 6 yrs having the same job in the same place, but even that does not make me feel at ease. I am starting to wonder whether I should stay here and be loyal or go out and try something different (I am SO TIRED of starting over, I am over 40, damnit) but the writing is on the wall here, too. I run a boiler in a paper mill, and they plan on putting a co-generation plant in...what that means is that we don't have the experience to run it, and they have been pretty much blowing smoke in our faces so that we will stay until they just throw us out, I think...i caught that atmosphere at one of our crew meetings anyway....things are pretty precarious for us...I am pretty worried, since I just bought a house a couple of yrs ago...no husband, all on my own...oh well, even if I am tired of starting over, it may be so one more time! just remember that you are not the lone ranger here, and that if I ever wound up doing what I originally thougt I would do way back when...shit who knows!! I'd still be worrying probably!!!
XXXOOO
I wish you the best of luck, and fight as best you can, you were not wrong, and you know it!!!