Before the year ends, I will be jobless

Philippines
October 20, 2010 2:31am CST
It was with some pride that I announced to my mylot friends here that I got a job a few months back. The job is great, my co-workers are great, so is the schedule. So it was with shock that I learned yesterday that come December our department would cease to exist because the client did not renew their contract with us. This mean a hundred of displaced employees. I was crying a lot when I got home because in my department almost everyone knew each other, even the managers. Our company has promised to try to find vacancies for us within the company. That may be good news but there is a catch to it. It means that a lot of our benefits will be cut because of that transfer because the benefits that we are experiencing now was only for our department. I had to cry because I cannot imagine the heartbreak of my co-workers who have been working in the department for five years. They were the ones who started with the department and has seen it its glory days and bad days and stuck through it. They were given offers with other companies but stayed because of the people that they were working with. And now this. I can only hope and pray something good comes out of this. I just feel betrayed, as with everyone in our company that we were betrayed because the management kept saying that the company was stable. Now, we have ceased to become people to that company. We are only a faceless employee number they can afford to send out on Christmas without a job. I live in the Philippines. We don't have unemployment benefits like in the US. So I am again out looking for a job as early as now.
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4 responses
@AmbiePam (84668)
• United States
25 Oct 10
I am so sorry. I remember when my mom was laid off several years ago. She didn't have unemployment benefits either. In the U.S., if you work for a non profit organization, you don't get unemployment benefits. I'll be praying for you, and hopefully management will be able to find most of you, if not all of you, another job that will have enough benefits to get you through.
• Philippines
29 Oct 10
Thanks Ambie. For now, staying home for Christmas and being able to go out of town by December with my friends. I guess I will just apply again for a job by next year. This year has been too much for me.
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
20 Oct 10
I'm so sorry for you, Anne. I can only imagine how hard can be for you to know that you're going to be jobless before the end of the year. You're right, for the employers we are only faceless employee, some figures without personality. They don't care that we have lives and families and children to take care of. Here, where I work, we have had our salary cut by more than 60% since two month ago and nobody cares how do we live with so little money. But, at least, we still have a job and we hope for better days when our earnings will raise again.
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
We were actually just expecting that some people would go..but not the entire account. Yes, I know it is dehumanizing to have you work on such a small salary, but that is still better than for most of us. Thank you for your response.
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
20 Oct 10
do not be sad anne. you still got time to recover from this and use that time to look for other job. with your experience you can have a good job then. keep going and good luck!
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
Thank you CT. I am undecided up to now on what I will do. Thank you for your response.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
1 May 13
i still never experienced that the year ends i will be jobless and i am thankful for that because every year ends i still have work and job,and aside from that its a bad sign when the first month or day of the year is jobless because they said that for a year you will be a jobless.