I was laid off from my job this morning!

I used to work at ADP for close to 5 years. I even made the move from Silver Spring MD, to Alpharetta Georgia, when the department moved in June 2001. Today, a few of us were called into a conference room getting the word that they were making budget cuts, and had to cut some positions. All-the-while, ADP is training and opening up an office in India.

My wife and I are still celebrating the birth of my daughter, who is now 5 weeks old. Please keep us in your prayers, as I go out an trying find another job.

Thank you
Tim

Thoughts and best wishes are with you...:hi:

I hope everything works out. :hi:

for repugs over and over.

good luck.

I've maintained spreadsheets. Conducted meetings/conference calls.

I've worked with Lotus, Oracle, Access, Excel, Quattro Pro, Power Point, Prodigy, AOL, MS (Windows 3.1, 95, 98, & 2000 Office, Word, XP) Knowledge of UNIX, ATM, ISDN, TCP/IP, DHCP, Ethernet.

I am a Team player, career and detail oriented, computer literate, strong problem solving skills, enthusiastic learner, strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, articulate, excellent work ethic.

I am in high tech and believe me I have contacts

I am sorry you lost your job today. From reading the numerous posts, I'd say you have quite the support group! May your job search be thankfully short.

It isn't fair. Good luck finding a new job and take care of your new daughter.

I am so sorry, Tim. Celebrate that little girl's arrival, though - she's a blessing on you.

soon. That chimp in the WH has got to go.

Keep head up high, congrats on new baby!

These things often work out for the better in the long run. My husband and I have both been through job lay-offs, and in every case, we wound up with a better situation later on.

If you've ever thought about starting your own business, doing some writing, doing consulting work from home, etc., now's your chance to give it a try. I did, 18 years ago, and never looked back. My husband got out of a pressure-cooker situation and into a new firm where the people are much nicer and the pay is better, too.

Times are tough, but there's always room for qualified people.

I hope things work out well for you. Good luck!

This could also be a time to go back to school, if you've got any inclination to get retrained in something else. At least you can collect unemployment while learning a new field.

Be sure to ask for a letter of reference from your supervisor, before they disappear.

I will pray for you. I know how it is to face tough and uncertain trials like the one you are about to face.

I will pray for the Lord to give you confidence and peace about finding a new job. Also that you will receive promising leads and assistance. Well I have a feeling things will work out for the best in the long run.

My husband also lost his job in April, here it is end of June and he is still without a job. He struggles with this every single day and it's heartbreaking to see my wonderful, strong husband who put in over 20 years for his country, retired 2 years ago with a great job, now working his tail off to find gainful employment.

I do feel your pain, anxiety and uncertainty. My best to you and your family. Please keep us posted on your progress.

Will keep your family in my thoughts and prayers. Was unemployed myself with a newborn, not the best of times. But tried to think of the bright side that I got to spend more time with my daughter for a while.

Things will get better friend!

I just whispered a prayer for you and your family. I have a friend in Alpharetta--a minister of a church--who thinks a lot like we do. If you want his name and name of his church, I will be glad to give it to you. Just PM me. If not, that's OK, too. I hope you find work soon. God bless.

Although I worked in Alpharetta, I live in Kennesaw. I have a church home, and they are always more than supportive. However, thank you so much for thanking of me and my family to offer your friend to us.

May God bless you more!

Sad news. Hang in there-- start looking and something will show up soon.

Welcome to DU, ypsiguy.

I'm assuming you're in Ypsilanti (I'm in Ann Arbor) I think there are quite a few DU'ers in the area.

I am so sorry

and empathize with you. Hang in, hold your daughter and know that things will change.

If I can give any advice, it would be to treat the job search as full time employment. Your new job is getting a new job. If you find that things don't go quickly, take a part time something--anything to get you being productive even if it's greeting at Grandy's.

Get up early, and stay up late.
Keep the TV off.
Work hard.

Best wishes.

I will most certainly use that as a model to follow.

Take a few days off, maybe two weeks. Real time off, no guilt, no panic, no fear. Won't be easy, but you need to do it. If you interview right now you will either be angry or bruised and it will show.

Never interview while you are still bleeding.

If you have an appointment and suffer a sinking spell, reschedule. It shows confidence (even when you are really short on that commodity) and you wouldn't get an offer anyway in that altered state.

Your story sounds so much like what my family went through in 1993.

My husband got laid off five days before the birth of our second child. He did treat the employment search process as a job. It took a few months, but something did finally come through.

Don't give up. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out for you and your family. You'll be in my thoughts.

This is certainly not what you need right now! All my hopes to you and the little family for landing a new job quickly. :hug:

last week a friend who has worked for birds eye foods in Wisc for the last 19 yrs was laid off along with 1/2 of all their employees there..she was a nutritionist..so even birds eye food company is not making money. many friends..engioneers at GM in Michigan and elsewhere are all getting their pink slips...and it is in the thousands..and more each day. i am afraid that the difficult times are really here and accelerating.

come on up. We'll welcome you with open arms. Although, I am sure that there are other offices of Paychex the headquarters are here.

I also was laid off from what I thought was a great job. As it turned out, after 10 months of no luck I landed a new job that is a much better fit. I really enjoy this job, and I work nights too. It's not too bad when you get used to it. Keep your options and your mind open. I NEVER thought that I could function while working an overnight shift, but it's quite enjoyable. We can watch the office politics from afar and just do our work.

Best of luck, cherish that baby. They grow up so fast.

We are chattel.

Some of us should buy acreage(s) and start building that village we've been thinking about. Co-housing would help fill in some of the job holes that are an intrinsic part of life in the U.S. now.

I've been downsized twice in my life.

Once during Poppy Bush's administration.

And once during Shrubs.

However, both presented additional opportunities that I would not have explored otherwise. (The first time I went to college, the second time I started my own business)

Give all your love to that new baby, give Mommy some rest, and enjoy some time with them while you're hunting. You'll look back on it as a blessing, trust me!

My wife has very mixed emotions! She works in the school system, and she has been with the baby 24 hours a day, and she will be happy with some relief.

You'll all be fine, we're here for you if you need to vent.

"Up from the ashes grow the roses of success"
(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

Congratulations on your baby!
I also have a 5 week old daughter and couldn't imagine going through what you are.

Good luck to you and your family.

Anybody in Georgia that could lend a hand to Tim on the job search? I'm sure somebody has some good contacts.

I have been communicating with someone from the DU nation, and I am keeping my fingers crossed!

I'm so sorry, Tim. I hope you're able to get a new & better job very soon.

and your family.

I pray for someone who cares to win every election, overcoming voting machines and the apathy in this country.

I know that God won't make this happen, people will, and it's places like DU that give us hope to keep fighting the good fight. I just hope God gives me strength to keep spreading the work about this administration in a way that does not offend, but changes minds.

My prayers for your strength and thankfulness for new life!

I too have been spreading the word about this administration. I have learn a lot since I joined DU. All I've been doing was telling my family and friends about what I've learned. Hopefully, somewhere down the line, a mind would be changed about this administration.

Having been there I know this. So enjoy the opportunity of some time with your new baby.

I lost my job in September and it has turned out to be a blessing, I am in the process of starting a small home business which is something that I've been wanting to do.

Keep your thoughts positive and look on it as an opportunity, you know that old saying when one door closes another one opens.

And like you, I worry that my job could be heading to India.

Good luck with the job hunting. Hope you find something you like.

It may sound corny but all things happen for a reason. It looks bleak now but have faith that things will be better than before!!!

:hug:

Blessings to you and your family. We are here for you!

Seriously. 5 years is long enough to work for one company. You have a new baby and and a whole new life. Don't be afraid to let go of the familiar or the security of what you know. This could be the best thing ever. Your boss let you go because you fell in the bottem X% of the group. If you really loved what you were doing there you would have been in the top. Maybe there is something else you would rather do? Anyway goodluck to you! I know the market is tough out there. But you can do it!

and know anything about magazine editing, my company here in Marietta, GA has an opening for an editor for an outdoors magazine.

May all upper level executives and board members of ADP get giant hives.

Keep your chin up....

..Hope you find something SOON! Best Wishes...

Enjoy that baby! Persistence will hopefully pay off in the end. I didn't read the whole thread but I hope you were offered some sort of severance package.

I will keep you in my thoughts. Take this time to enjoy more time with your new family member. Once you get back to work it may not be as convenient for you.

Tom Friedman is concerned you're getting fat and lazy.

As I like to say, Welcome to life in the 21st century. The corporation doesn't give two sh*ts about the common man or the man that does all the work while their 520%-of-what-the-grunt-makes CEOs can bask in their sick piles of money.

My thoughts are with you

right so you'll have the look of a winning attitude when you go for your interviews. I really hope some DUers can come through for you and help get you connected to a great new job!

Happened to me after 9-11. Had my fantasy job making great money working on a computer network. After 9-11, most of the company was laid off. Took 14 months to get a job, so don't relax on your unemployment too long, LOL!!!

Happy B-Day to your daughter, and hang in there. I hear it's better now, than it was when I was lookin for work.

:hug:

They let our HR guy go and now we are technically employed by Oasis, even though we still work for our company. A lot of us were bothered by the shift, as well as the "outsourcing" name. It's been about 3 years, and no real problems yes, but I wonder if a lot of people switching to Oasis has been a problem for ADP?

(Atlanta)you'll be fine. I've been laid off several times due to downsizing. And so has my husband. It's painful. But you'll be fine. And even stronger than before. I hate so much that this is happening to so many wonderful people. There just is no security. But you must be a very fortunate man. You have a family who loves you and a beautiful new daughter. And you have a supportive group of DU friends, also. Keep in touch with us.

DU is like family!

Unbelievable. Trust me, in 4-5 months, this will be the best thing that ever happened to you.

In May 2001, the place I work for had their IT department taken over by an MBA ladder-climber - cut HALF of the IT department without batting an eyelash. I was one of them. I was pissed, believe me, but then I thought . . . "I've been working since the age of 16 (I was 32 at the time) pretty much NON-stop, even during college. I've not had any time off whatsoever in 16 years . . . most I got was 2 weeks, and that was between looking for jobs when I was in my 20s." So I had a great summer to myself for once. I was antsy for a bit in September, because collecting UI was getting old and I can't stand not having a paycheck. All of a sudden, after five months of nothing, I got two offers from banks, one of which paid 9,000 more than what I was making previously.

Took the job in October, have been here ever since.

If someone like me, with relatively little experience under their belt can get something in THAT lousy scenario (all of the applicants I was competing against were ALL laid off from their jobs, as I later found out), keep thy chin up and good luck. Things are going to get better sooner than you think.

Enjoying the summer might actually take some of the pain off. It did for me.

...this could happen to a man with a new family to support. I tend to think of myself a lot-since * took office, two places that I've worked at have either been "bought out"/taken over (merger) or closed. I used to be a chemist when I actually had a job to go to. Now I've got almost another year before I finish my medical technology program that I am in-I'm trying to cross-over into the healthcare laboratory from the industrial laboratory (you need a special certification/license to work in a clinical/hospital laboratory-this is the "MT" after a name, meaning medical technologist). Now, chemical/pharmaceutical jobs are going to India and China, just like your job, and research positions are opening up all over Europe, since so much funding for any kind of research to actually help anybody get well (e.g., stem cell) has basically dried up thanks to *. I'm 36 years old, and there's a lot of things that I would like to do rather than going to school. My thoughts are with you-it puts things in perspective to know that there are people who have it worse than myself. Just try to think hopeful-and make sure that you get every unemployment check to the last penny that you can collect. You deserve it. Take some time to be with your new daughter and wife. I really wish you all the best.

will you be looking for work here in Atlanta?

What exactly do you do?

It would be so easy to legislate this kind of anti-American worker stuff out of existence. Please write your congress people about this... the fewer people working in GA, the worse the economy becomes. I hope you find a better job very quickly.

I think there's work in DC metro area, too. Dont go to Dallas or Midwest. There's work opening up ... lot of financial places looking for computer folks. Competition is there but recruiters are answering their phones and people are having real interviews.

Look for work from 9-5 M-F(take 1 1/2 -2 hour lunch -- you deserve it).
Enjoy your daughter. Make this time a special time with your wife and daughter.

The telecom industry imploded here 4 years ago and there is a huge glut of IT and other technical expertise on the market.

Tarrant County and Dallas County have the highest rate of home foreclosures in 30 years.

outsourcing! I will pray for you and your family right now!

Figure out a business you can start and go it alone. You'll never outsource yourself to India. Best of luck. It's a shame what's happening to this country.

That advice was priceless! Way more than two cents.

A brand new baby is one of the best things that can happen to anybody. Something good will shake out of this for you, I just feel it in my bones. I've had a couple of jobs dissolve out from under me too during my life, and every time it happened I landed into something better than I could have hoped for. Good luck and chin up.

These companies make me sick. It's all about the bottom line.

Good luck with your job search, I am out of work too and it's tough trying to get by.

Stories like yours are part of the reason we are Democrats. You and your family are people who have taken the time and expense to get an education, and develop valuable skills. What a shame that business have gotten so greedy that they are willing to sell Americans out in order to enrich themselves.

I know having a new baby is wonderful, and stressful at the same time. You will certainly be in my thoughts and prayers, and I'm hoping that you get a good job right away. Congratulations on the new baby girl.

Good luck to you & your family. Wish I were in a position to help.

My job has been very iffy lately too, I've been having near panic attacks over it. If any of you pray to whomever, don't forget me.
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

And the good news? That little baby has daddy at home for now. She is lucky - even if you are not.

I had a similar situation recently where I was laid off by phone. Fortunately, I was able to find a similar job within a week.

Just remember to keep your head up and to spend every spare moment looking for work. Good luck.

And keep your wits about you. Good people will always come out better for their adversities.

Would you consider relocating?

What kind of work did you do for ADP?

Not that my advice is worth anything, but when I had a similar experience in 1979, I started my own small company...which is still small but has been more than enough for me these years. You MAY want to consider trying it...although you have more responsibilities than I did when I did it. In any case, wishing the best for you.
:D

NGU!

:( Sometimes I hate this shit like that! It pisses me off!!!! :mad:

to the RED clay of GA before getting laid off. I grew up in Silver Spring and my parents still live in the county, I love it there... Not the least because it's BLUE!

Good luck to you in finding another one real fast. You're goanna need to with having a new born and all.

Try to make the time between jobs a special time to bond with her.
You won't have this same opportunity to spend time with her when you are working full time. It's a gift in disguise.

Many of us in high-tech have been laid off. It is not a good feeling, but you have to stay positive and make good use of the time to take stock of what's important.

I am hoping a better one opens for you.

Good luck with your job search! Some day you will look back and remember the "extra" good times you got to have with your new daughter when she was tiny!

Peace!

will keep you in my prayers...

just a thought and sorry if this has already been suggested, but you might want to post this in the georgia forum (in the state forums?). you might find some wonderful contacts there that may be able to help. just a thought!

Wishing you the best...

Keep in mind its a marathon and not a sprint.

I should know too because on April 3, 2003 I fell down a flight of steps and broke my ankle in 3 places. I could not walk for a year and had 3 operations on my foot.

Did my job support me at all? No they let me go after 1 month. In fact they threatened to fire me a few days after I fell if I didnt get into the office. What saved me is they felt bad when I wound up in the hospital with an infection in the wound and a temp of 103...

Needles to say I am STILL trying to find work as an attorney here in Lower New york state. Even though I am very frustrated I still try to keep positive and have even set a deadline on myself to find a job in law by a certain date or return to school for a masters degree in something else I enjoy

Sorry to hear about your fall (which happened on my birthday) and eventual loss of job. I hope all is well!

this was during the first Bush administration

We ended up living with my parents and eventually my husband got another job. Networking is crucial.Believe me,people will want to help. My kids are now almost 17 and 15

It was a scary time

Good luck to you and your family

...not

India. My husband is a Social Studies teacher, and is incredibly familiar with much of the world. When we get a call from someone with an Indian accent, I pass the phone to him. He is very friendly, and asks them about details of their country with which he is familiar. After things get schmoozy, he says, So, tell me, how would you feel about this? You come into work tomorrow, and you are told that you no longer have a job because your job is moving to America. How will you feed your kids? Well, think about it. We don't buy anything from companies who steal American jobs.

God Bless You.
Brad and Deb Winslow

That's terrible news, especially after such a happy event as the birth of your daughter.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you. :)

I hope you'll be able to find a position soon. I received notice that I'll lose both my jobs in September ... I'm trying to put a positive spin on it (I can finally spend some time visiting my aging parents!).