Survival, I think...

Well, I am back. Or at least I am more active now.

I just went through and continue to go through a job upheaval. Two lousy bad quarters and the bosses decide we have too many people on payroll. It can be un-hinging. I, we, all of us I suppose invest time, thought, and energy into our jobs. We invite co-workers over to barbecues, we miss family picnics so that we can meet our customer's needs, we argue with our very pregnant wife when our 2nd child comes two weeks early and we aren't finished with our projects at work. (True story, I will never live it down, my work project is running late, and her baby project is coming in early) I love you Honey :-))

And so we invest in our jobs and in the people that we work with, as we should. And then a time like this arrives where our friends at work don't get to be with us any longer. It is sad. I have been on both sides of this continental job divide. I listened to a "Boss" at an all-hands meeting today, he said it sucked for him too. I believe him.

It reminds me of a time when I was a youth, and all Car Dealers were closed on Sundays. Everyone knew that if you wanted to buy a car, better git'r'done between Monday and Saturday. People didn't complain much and the Car Dealer employees liked having Sunday off. Then one local dealer opened up shop on Sunday, and within a month all local Car Dealers were open on Sunday. They didn't sell any more cars than they did the month before, but there was no going back. No Car Dealer worth their tires was going to close up shop on a Sunday if a competitor was going to be open. I think this "Down-sizing", "Right-sizing", "Lay-offs", "Resource-Actions", "Out-sourcing" thing is the same way. We started and now we can't stop because we fear that our competitors will keep on doing it and we will look bad to the investors or we will miss out on a load of money.

No one is dancing in the streets about losing a job or about being able to buy a Ford Focus on a Sunday. Sundays were made for drives through the country.(And drives to church of course;-) So let Honda, Ford, Toyota, and Chevy close their doors on Sundays, and let's give people a renewed feeling of corporate loyalty, and career stability.