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Rochester NY had the worst pay cuts in the US. Yay. Followd by Syracuse. Then Albany. Buffalo also topping the ranks. Hurray for the Rust Belt
[url]http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107267/pay-cut-cities.html?mod=career-salary_negotiation[/url]
I hope your folks are doing okay, DM. Friends of ours (engineers) also lost their jobs recently. Big cuts at a Kodak division here as well.
My mom hasn't worked since she had kids, and my dad has survived probably about 20 layoffs since Kodak started laying off people in the 90s or whatever. Last round of layoffs (a few months ago) people to both sides of my dads cubicle got axed
The guy I know, they fired him & then tried to rehire him as a technical consultant. He told them 'no thanks'. They are outsourcing a lot of stuff to Mexico. He got a better job almost immediately. He is waiting the 6 months or so it will take the admin folks to figure out that their ppl in Mexico can't do the work, at which point he'll likely charge dbl what they were paying him. Its pretty easy to outthink the office admin folk.
This is why I am studying my ass off. I've already seen both ends of the stick and I know which one I am fighting for.
Except when the office folk already screwed up so bad the company has literally no money left to pay for anything and have to close shop. Kodak is having a furlough next week actuallyQuote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
i'm on the other side of the nation. but then again, most of the money exists on the east coast.
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Oh shit. That sucks bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
It's probably the reason Rochester has taken such a hit on the salaries... Buffalo was already a lot more blue-collar than Rochester was (Rochester had a lot of engineers and scientists working for companies like Kodak, Xerox, DuPont, Eastman Chemical, and Bausch and Lomb). The people living a few houses down were both chemical engineers but lost their jobs in the last year. They aren't going to move until their kids finish school and leave, so the guy had to get whatever job he could, which turned out to be some surely low paying job
The valedictorian in my graduating class... both his parents were engineers for Kodak who got fired a few years ago. They got new jobs, but... surprise surprise, not in Rochester. In North Carolina