How To Avoid Getting Laid Off: CBS MoneyWatch

CBS MoneyWatch:

The first thing you need to do is assess your vulnerability to these cuts on several levels. The first one would be based on your own personal performance — how does it compare to that of your peers, how well does your boss regard you, and what kind of support do you have beyond him or her? Because if you only have your boss’s support, you’re vulnerable since his or her job may be at risk as well. So you want to seek out and build as wide support for yourself at your company as possible.

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Comments

[trumbull desi]

09:34 AM on 08/21/2011

You can do all the 'right' things as mentioned in this article and still get laid off. Companies don't look at workers as people. They are human wigets, serial numbers, and nothing more.

[fortressfountain]

01:39 PM on 08/20/2011

Lack of jobs is due to a lack of demand for product and a lack of income as people have no money or job.
The low paying, dead end jobs they want us to work-they advertise on tv as being jobs that high school drop outs have to work.
Who is pulling whos leg?
The most succesful people in the world were high school or college dropouts.

[Cup of Java]

11:28 AM on 08/20/2011

Pure Bull! If a company decides to move overseas or is acquired by a bigger company in order to slash and sell it, no one is safe.

So here's the real solution: Try to relocate to another country so you can get an American job.

[fortressfountain]

12:27 PM on 08/19/2011

This article is doodoo because: if a business is not making money they will close the door and you will not be employed by them no matter what skill or education level.
I know a PA who was laid off due to a dermatology practice going out of business. It took this person almost a year to find a job-she was only in her late 20s.
A lot of businesses are going under due to lack of demand and they do not wish to become debt slaves to support the banks.

[SitandStay]

08:16 AM on 08/19/2011

This article is what you get when you let corporations blog drvnk.
Look what they tried to do with J1 visa students at Hershey in Pennsylvania.
See, those J1 workers' countries have standards! You can't work them like Americans!

[SitandStay]

08:10 AM on 08/19/2011

Or work harder than any of your J1 visa coworkers that were paid low wages, pushed to work faster and faster. Their living accommodations were taken out of their pay, leaving them with next to nothing to live on. THIS IN THE UNITED STATES......PENNSYLVANIA.North Londonderry Township..
See, our working conditions do sv-ck and it takes people from other countries to come here to demand to be treated like human beings for US. Why does it take workers from other countries to fight for our rights?

http://www.ldnews.com/ci_18710123?source=most_viewed

[SitandStay]

08:12 AM on 08/19/2011

Feds called in to Hershey protest.......August 18, 2011.
If this doesn't wake America up.....we are comatose.

[trobts]

07:52 AM on 08/19/2011

And pray tell how do you avoid it when the COMPANY SHUTS DOWN!

[Ian Faus]

07:48 AM on 08/19/2011

There should be more useful articles on Huff Po like: How to survive a layoff !

[Ian Faus]

07:46 AM on 08/19/2011

Complete load of bull.

The only way to avoid getting laid off is starting your own business.

[SitandStay]

07:34 AM on 08/19/2011

Stand on a table top with a UNION sign.

Norma where are you?

[SitandStay]

07:41 AM on 08/19/2011

Crystal Lee Sutton was the real life "Norma Rae". She organized the mill where she worked in 1974.
"Crystal Lee Sutton died, aged 68, at Hospice House in Burlington, North Carolina, on Friday, September 11, 2009, from meningioma, a form of brain cancer that she had been fighting for several years. She had been struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment."
Mills are places where terrible health hazards exist.
"Sutton was the 13th recipient of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award in 1980. The honor was named after a 1963 encyclical letter, Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), by Pope John XXIII, that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations."

[SitandStay]

07:14 AM on 08/19/2011

Another way to not get laid off: Ignore the fact that a salesman is "lifting" product and is in collusion with your manager, especially if you are female. Just keep taking the online honesty and integrity tests every month the company thinks is preventing theft and collusion.

[palinsnuts]

10:46 PM on 08/18/2011

Suicide

[1oldhippie]

08:43 PM on 08/18/2011

Its hard to "worry about a layoff", when you've been unemployed for THREE years!

[SitandStay]

07:51 AM on 08/19/2011

f&f.....I have felt your pain also.
Went to apply at one corporation where they sent me home with their website address to apply.
After i finished my application online, it prompted an email to me. The email stated there was ONE more short step. It began with "enter your birthdate, month, day and year...IF YOU ARE UNDER 39"....I suppose that was to protect them from litigation of not hiring "mature" people. I printed it out, page by page.
I sent it to the U.S. Dept of Labor. They forwarded it to the department EEOC where I received a letter and invitation to see them at any time.

[Hotness]

08:21 AM on 08/19/2011

"mature" = old

[Hotness]

08:20 AM on 08/19/2011

Its not all about YOU.

[SitandStay]

08:24 AM on 08/19/2011

Oh yes it is. It is all about us, the older, experienced workers because we now have a nation of "hotness".........

[noaxe397]

01:23 PM on 08/19/2011

But you young people never show up for work. Even when you are physically there you are never really there; always texting and checking for the next incoming message. More than once I've saved a young person from injury when they were trying to do a two handed job with one hand because they had an electronic device in the other.

[fortressfountain]

07:11 PM on 08/18/2011

The previous generations did not create this world-the politicans, corporations and espeacially the banking system created this greedy society with the sky being the limit as far as costs go.
Since everyone and everything have a price-looks like the only ones who count are the global elite. Everyone else is a pawn or a number. Deal with it.

[Brazosmud]

06:51 PM on 08/18/2011

Get rid of the "Hope and Change" bumper sticker on your car.

[1oldhippie]

08:44 PM on 08/18/2011

YES. and replace it with OBAMA 2012!

[SitandStay]

07:55 AM on 08/19/2011

And replace it with the number of jobs lost to outsourcing for call centers when those jobs would have been a source for employment by our aging population. Instead Bush gave them tax cuts for moving the jobs to other countries...who have employed the youth of countries that have national healthcare.
Your turn now.