Whole Maryland office is being “consolidated” with Austin. They offered to move us to Austin if we want. How fucking generous.

Assholes at the top are the reason they’re losing money, production as far as I can tell was quite lean and putting out lots of product. They’re just gonna lop an arm off and hope it works out, and fuck the rest of us now out of a job cause they can’t balance overhead.

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    Obviously too late now, but the move to Austin would have taken a long time, had you thought of accepting the move and in the meantime starting an intense job search in Maryland? That way if you found nothing you at least still had a backup plan in Austin and you weren’t fully out of the job.

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      Yeah. More people need to be comfortable gaming the system like this. They do it to us so there’s no reason not to do it right back (but double check your contracts!)

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      Agreed. OP, I’m sorry this has happened to you. I wish you the best.

      For others in the future, a crappy 1 room “extended stay” hotel might cost more for housing temporarily, but would likely be more money in your pocket at the end of the month than unemployment. Getting a job is much easier if you have a job already.

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        Do you guys and the people who upvoted you not have friends and family? I’m baffled by the nonchalant suggestion that someone pick up their life and move across the country thousands of miles from anyone they know, on what is more or less the whims of strangers.

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          Fly down to Austin, rent a PO Box, have mail diverted back to current house, claim you moved and wait till company notices while looking for a new job.

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            There are mail services in Texas that give you a street address and will forward the mail to whatever address you choose. No flying needed.

            Someone I know keeps residency while spending his year moving from place to place. He doesn’t have a real home and never spends more than a few months in one place so it gives him a place to register his vehicle and keep his driver’s license up to date.

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          They’re suggesting a temporary move until a new job is sorted, if I understand. While not feasible for everyone, it could be an option for some to avoid being laid off.

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          First, I wasn’t suggesting it as a permanent move. You live in the other place until you find a job back in your original location, but all the while you’d still have a job, income, and most importantly, health insurance.

          Do you guys and the people who upvoted you not have friends and family?

          Multiple times during my childhood one of my parents had to move ahead to a different city to take a job while the other parent stayed in the original place until the end of the school year and we’d move.

          I’m baffled by the nonchalant suggestion that someone pick up their life and move across the country thousands of miles from anyone they know, on what is more or less the whims of strangers.

          You do what you have to do to make ends meet. When there is no easy way you do the hard thing because thats what being an adult is.

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    I might consider relocating someplace nice, but an overhyped, overpriced city in one of the reddest red states? Kindly fuck off.

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    Staying away from austin is the right choice. Its all hype. That city was dope 10 years ago and has gotten shittier every day.

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    My company says we don’t sell 30 million in flooring in next 6 months we might have to close our doors. But in the next two weeks they are flying all the branch managers to Chicago, putting in a fancy hotels and wine and dine them. They already did the same thing with the sales reps. I asked If they couldn’t have these meetings on Zoom. My boss didn’t like that.

    Fucking new CEO one of those guys who last 5 companies he ran them into the ground. Already does weekly Zoom meetings I see no reason company that apparently running out of money had to close 20 branches suddenly as all the money to throw around wining and dining upper management.

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      TBF if I was forced to move to Texas, Austin would be the only city I’d accept. But begrudgingly. OP still did the right thing, though.

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    Sorry.

    I strongly recommend not browsing these types of threads for a few days/weeks.

    Try to avoid the doom scrolling.

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    Not sure what industry you’re in, but the Maryland state government is hiring in quite a few agencies across a swath of different jobs at the moment (I have family in state government who see these things and talk about them).

    Not great pay compared to the private sector in many cases, but the benefits are decent, and you can probably pick up a job fairly quickly that can tide you over while you work toward the next thing you want.