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Originally Posted by Rick Lee

1) The definition of job security is your ability to find your next job.
2) You're worth exactly what your next job will pay you.
3) Companies only value employees when they need them to come into work the next day.

I got laid off last Jan., completely unexpectedly, after closing a mammoth deal. It was a huge kick in the balls. Now I work for myself and make the same or more $$, but will kill it in year two. When I need a confidence booster, I call a former co-worker and let him rant about the BS I'm missing out on. It's schadenfreude writ large.

I remember that Rick, glad to hear you are doing well. So what exactly are you doing now?

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

Textron is evil... I know a few pilots that had been there over 20 years and just got notified.. They dissolved my old company a few years ago but at least we had several months notice.. sucks..

Yup, I hear pilots were hit hard. Poor management, they didn’t have the balls to forecast that 2019 would be a step down from 2018 and over hired. I also suspect this was a play to get rid of experienced (expensive) professional employees and backfill with more new grads. Also no big shock that all of their new programs have been late or suspended. Aerospace is hard.

I was actually laid off by them in 2014 when they acquired Beechcraft. My entire organization, they didn’t even bother interviewing to see what talent was present on our team. After 8 years of sacrifice for that company, that taught me some valuable lessons.