Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Don't let them steal your happiness

Yeah, you have plenty of options: which color homeless tent to use on the sidewalk when there's no jobs, which pen to use for divorce papers, which website to sell all your belongings, see plenty of options.

Look at it this way. You're not in the boat scene at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. You don't have terminal cancer. You aren't confined to a wheel chair with drool running down your face talking through some crude text to speech device like Steven Hawking. You're not at the top of the World Trade Center with no path to escape forced to jump out the building to avoid getting burned alive. Yeah, it could be better, but could also be a he-l of a lot worse. Be thankful for what you have.

I'm sure those two Coursera classes and a few messages to your old buddies on LinkedIn will do the trick

@b6 what's all this Intel dumpster stealing? Several mentioned that.

Yup and doomsday Intel prep. More coming. Start clearing your houses of anything you wouldn't pack to quickly relocate. Start hunting now. Just assume you have 70% of being gone this time next year at the latest. I think a lot of us assumed this time last year if I survive I can breathe. Nope, here we are. Frankly we were d-mb. Don't be d-mb again...prep.

@aw that’s where you should have seen yourself not as an employee of a single company, but as an individual competing in a global market of many companies and employees.

You could have worked harder and learned more to be more valuable, not at Intel, but at another company that would compensate you for that value.

You forgot:

• steal from Intel dumpsters
• locate your nearest food bank
• locate your nearest unemployment office
• get your car ready to sell and buy a bicycle
• sell stuff on Craigslist, Ebay, and Pawn Shops to make downsizing easier
• use up your PTO
• stop going out to eat and learn to cook
• pay off your high interest credit card debt and put savings in a high interest savings account

@aw Wow, that is depressing... has it ever occurred to you to take your skills somewhere else? You describe a miserable existence just for a paycheck. Wake up, treat yourself better. How can you type that, read it, and then not draw the same conclusion? Seriously you spend too much time at work to feel that way. Get a more satisfying job and a lot of other aspects of your life will improve too. Life goes by way to fast to waste it.

A lot of people become complacent. Why bust your a$$ if it won’t matter that much in your raise. I will get paid the same whether I give 100% vs 75% effort. I have seen people give 50% and get a bigger raise because they know how to kiss a$$ and be buddy buddy with the boss.

Skills trump everything. Unfortunately, a great number of people became complacent at Intel