Last day of work

[robin_june]

Well, the new job has run out of money to pay me (rather quickly, this go-around), so the new job has become "the old job", and I'm back in the job-searching business again. Ouch. Not happy. Research money is being hard to come by, regardless of how many worthy research ideas there are in supply.

Comments

[poltr1]

Nuts.

Take it from me: Without bucks, life sucks.

I hope you can land on your feet RSN.

[debber5]

Well,we can join the club. The decided to let me know they weren't happy with my performance at the meeting when they let me go. Seems that that's way too late to give me any chance to change my performance. Wish I could work for a company that had the courage to let me know they need me to change my behavior-employees cannot change if they do not know there is a problem. The employee may not be able to change what they are doing if they do know about it but at least they won't be blind-sided at the time they are let go.

[peteralway]

Blast! Good luck to you, too!

[robin_june]

Expletives deleted!

Some larger employers will enforce rules that prevent the first performance review from coinciding with the exit message.

Of course, sometimes the expectations are unrealistic and unreachable, but if they're also uncommunicated, that's just disgusting treatment of another human being.

[debber5]

My point exactly. I wouldn't be so upset if I had a better idea that they were not happy with my performance. They have the right to let people go "at will" (and that is a part of many companies' policy), but I honestly don't believe anyone wants to be on the receiving end of that policy. 'Nuff said.

[joecoustic]

Hope the search goes well!!

[catsittingstill]

Oh man. Stuff like this is why I got out of research (or rather, the last time the grant ran out I didn't go find another research job.)

Good luck with the job search!