Due to the economy, your position is being eliminated

[lizziegrace]

yep. Here we go again. I just paid Lelapin's tuition and the engine light came on in my car today and my job was eliminated.

I have no idea where to go from here. I really don't want to see the sun tomorrow.

[PVnRT]

1. Didn't you just move?

That's some righteous douchebaggery right there.

[TZ]

4. IIRC...

This is her SECOND job since moving...:(

[lizziegrace]

8. I moved over the summer.

If I move back today, I might, just might have $$ enough to move back but I have no job and no place to live. I don't know what to do.

Then there's the lease thing. And the cats. Damn.

[TZ]

2. Oh no!

Oh Lizziegrace thats so awful!! I don't even know what to say except..:hugs:

[BarenakedLady]

3. Oh no!

I'm so sorry.

:hug:

[flvegan]

5. God that sucks. You can't seem to catch a break.

[lizziegrace]

42. It sure feels that way

check your PM when you get a chance.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Oh my god, lizzie...

This is so not right.

How dare they?

:hug:

[Rhythm]

7. .

:hug:

[Haole Girl]

9. Oh no!

If you want to come to the DFW area, we are hiring next month. The salary will be low, I know, but the cost of living is low down here too. Just thought I'd toss the idea out for you. :hug:

[BlueIris]

10. Okay, that's it. You can NEVER have anything bad happen to you ever again.

Perfect health. Perfect community. Perfect pets. So be it. Thank you.

[JimGinPA]

11. My Attitude About Losing A Job Has Always Been...

Fuck it, I was looking for a job when I found this one. Seriously, don't get down on yourself. You'll probably find a job you like better that pays more.

About your engine light, disconnect your battery cable, leave it off for a few seconds and reconnect it. It could reset the sensor that triggered the light.

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

13. I just paid a tuition bill for my daughter at college

I will be homeless at the end of the month. Unemployment will pay the rent but nothing else.

I can't keep picking myself up and starting over. Over and over again.

[boilerbabe]

54. Wished there was something I could do to help you out

I had a dream that I lost my job and woke up. But who is to know how long my job will be there, either? It all depends on a paper mill that I provide power and steam to, and they shut down for economical reasons for a week. What a fiasco, when we started back up, everything was frozen. I am also going to online school and making house payments. If I lose this job, there might not be anything in my field in the area. So, I hear ya. I do hope that something good happens to you soon. I got tired of starting over, too. I am too old to do it too many more times. Best of luck to you, my dearest!

[ogneopasno]

12. You can probably get away with ignoring the engine light for awhile. Most of the time, it has to do

with emissions. Put it at the bottom of your worry list. I'm sorry everything else has happened.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. First thing to check re: the engine light is the Gas Tank Cap. If it is loose, or

is missing a spring, or has come off altogether, it will trigger the engine light. This happened to my daughter and to me. Total cost to straighten out: for me about $12.00, for her about $20.

[lizziegrace]

30. I'll check it this evening.

If not, there's a driving sequence you have to follow to see if you can reset it (so says the owner's manual) It's a 2000 Taurus with 82,000 on it.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. mine is a 2001 SEbring and my daughters' is a 2000 Focus (Ford).

Good luck with that and check your PMs

[BluePatriot]

41. Hugs, there there...

It's probably just a wonky sensor, especially if the car is still driving. I have had a '89 Taurus and a '99 Sable (same car, essentially) and the O2 sensor failed on them both. Quite recently, on the Sable with 135,000 miles on it. It's the only thing that's ever made the check engine light come on in either car and my mechanic Dad says it's very common. Cost for the part: $12. And the bonus is that replacing the part made my gas mileage shoot up...

Some auto parts stores will "run the codes" on your car for free. AAMCO says they do it, ymmv of course.

Hugs and best wishes!

[LostinVA]

58. I drove around for years with the light on -- that shouldn't eb a problem

I vaguely know what you do -- have you called a temp agency? I know they ahve temp places just for the industry you're in. It's not a long-term solution, but it will at least get you some money coming in.

[boilerbabe]

55. I ignore those pesky engine lights and eventually, they go away

I have a driveway full of old cars---one of them doesn't even have that engine light thingy (1972 Buick Riviera Boat tail). Usually, it means that your oxygen sensor is out of whack. I got some "Guaranteed to Pass Emissions" stuff and never saw the engine light again. You just put it in with your gas. Shit ye not. I am the authority on old junker cars and keeping them on the road. I have nothing newer than 1992. Just call me the Rustbucket Queen...

[easttexaslefty]

14. I'm so sorry

thats seriously sucks...what can I do to help?

[blueraven95]

15. that's awful, I'm so sorry

:hug: :hug: :hug:



If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know.

[I Have A Dream]

16. lizziegrace, is the PayPal account still set up so that we can...

contribute as we did last time? (I'm so sorry that you have to go through this again. :() I'd love to do my part to help. If the PayPal account is still set up, anyone who is interested could do the same.

:hug::hug:

[Career Prole]

35. I'd be interested.

I can't do a lot but I sure can chip in.

[JenaLaw]

52. same here

hugs to you!

[Career Prole]

78. And to you!

:hug:

[Arkansas Granny]

63. I'd like to help, too.

[lizziegrace]

65. It's the same account used for Thomcat's computer

and it's still open

[e-mail]

[PeaceNikki]

17. Get all your anger out, cry your eyes out, then wake up tomorrow and face the day.

“The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.”
~Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)

:grouphug:

It's a job... there are others. You have a beautiful daughter who is healthy and safe. You have friends who will help you if you let them and family who loves you.

Please count your blessings and, as Monty Python would say... ALWAYS look on the bright side of life. It could be FAR worse.

[lizziegrace]

24. You're right

thank you...

[Chorophyll]

18. ...

Engine light = b.s. Most likely nothing to worry about. As for the rest... I'm sorry to hear this. Dammit. :hug:

[Shakespeare]

19. OMG, lizzie.

I'm so sorry. You do NOT deserve this. :hug:

Please PM me if there's anything I can do to help. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[lost-in-nj]

20. oh Lizzie

:hug:

I wish I lived closer.....

let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do....


lost

[SalmonChantedEvening]

21. Oh dammit no

:grr: :cry: :hug:

If I can be of any help let me know. Ears and shoulders Tish. Yours.

:hug: :loveya: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

22. I am so sorry this has happened to you again.

:hug:

[NJmaverick]

23. hang in there

:hug:

[mnhtnbb]

25. Oh, lizziegrace. My son walked into his job the first Monday after New Year's

last year and was escorted to human resources and out the building, along with 3/4 of his department.
They were moving tech support to India!

Six weeks later he had a job that paid better, has his own office (with a window) and enjoys the work
more.

Please, don't get down. You are due for some good luck. You know DU'ers will do anything to help you.

Beat the pillows up and cry tonight. Get up tomorrow and go to work finding that job that is meant for YOU!

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

26. Hang in there. We're all behind you.

[lizziegrace]

27. Thanks everyone

there are a lot of people hurting, not just me. I had high hopes for 2009, but starting out like this, I'm not holding out a lot of hope that this year will be much different than others.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. Honey, we are right here with you.

I hunted for a job all summer. So far, this one is working out well. But you never know.

My best wishes

[haele]

77. Every time I got a better job, it was in February/March timeframe -

And those years always started out the same as yours has seemed to this year. The only times I've lost real jobs to layoff was always in the Sept - January timeframe when funding gets questionable.

You'll do good, it's just that many companies start reshuffling their personnel the beginning of the new year.

If you're in IT or in technology research, or just a good computer person in general, send me a PM with your specialty and the area you live in at this moment, I can see if my company is hiring in that area. If nothing else, we are reasonably ethical, have good family-oriented bennies and usually livable wages (and our Vanguard run 401K system hasn't tanked too terribly this last go-round - only around 10%), and since it's primarily employee owned, the company doesn't like to fire people.

Good luck, and at least you got the tuition out of the way. And everyone up above is probably right - if you don't actually see, hear, or smell something horribly wrong when you drive, your check-engine light is probably for some sort of emissions sensor and can be either ignored for a while or easily fixed.
If you have a later-model Ford, get your computer codes checked (Autozone should have a scanner that will do it for free - and it will reset your check engine light for you) and check out some forums to look up your codes online to see what they think is wrong. It might be as easy as changing out an air filter and cleaning off the MAF sensor, which fixed the first check engine light on the old Windstar.

Haele

[RetroLounge]

31. You GOTTA be kidding me?

Okay. I am going to have a serious talk with the gods about this...

:hug:

RL

[lizziegrace]

34. Knock yourself out

they aren't listening to me...

[RetroLounge]

38. Well, they need an ass kicking

:hug:

RL

[bigwillq]

32. ...

:hug:

I hope things get better for you.

[GOPisEvil]

33. Sigh...

:(:hug:

[Lavender Brown]

36. I'm really sorry.

I hate that this is happening to you and other good people. :( Just not right.

[supernova]

37. Hey, only one of us unemployed at a time. Thems the rulz.

I thought I was the chronically unemployed person around here?

Sorry it happened to you again, Lizziegrace.

:hug:

Things will get better. They have to.

[mwdem]

40. Lizzie, I'm so sorry to hear this.

How much can one person take? I wish you were living closer to me, I would love to put you up, cat and all. You are a good person, and it will get better. Let me know (pm me) if there is anything I can do to help you.

[grannylib]

43. Oh no....Oh, LizzieGrace....

as you may recall, I was just in your shoes a few weeks ago; I got one offer last Friday, and have an interview for an even better opportunity this coming Thursday.
I'll keep you close in thought and prayer, I know (seriously, I really know!) just how much this sucks and how bad it hurts and how sucky the timing...
:hug:

[lizziegrace]

44. Thank you

I feel so bad whining about leaving Lelapin in Ohio to come back here after I saw your thread about your daughter. I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine that kind of pain.

I hope that Thursday is the turning point for you. A good job in the new year. :hug:

[grannylib]

51. Oh, my dear, no need to feel bad AT ALL...what each of us goes

through at different points in our lives can be very painful, and to try to compare it to others' experiences really is useless...pain is pain, and struggle is struggle, and tough times are tough times, and how we feel in those situations is legit, regardless of what anyone else is going/has gone through!
I know what you mean, though, I feel HORRID sometimes weeping over her, when I have two other daughters and my grandchildren and my good husband...
Shortly after she died, I read a news article about a woman in Iowa who worked the night shift, and one night while she was at work, her water heater in her home exploded and killed her husband and all five of her children.
Now THAT'S mind-numbing loss...can't BEGIN to understand how she felt. And sometimes thinking about her helps, and sometimes it makes no difference. Her great pain doesn't diminish mine over Emmy's death...and mine over Emmy's death doesn't make your pain over your job loss any less. We feel what we feel.

I'll be sending the best vibes I can, dear LizzieGrace, for all good things to come to you!! :hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug: Don't give up hope!!

[Dangerously Amused]

45. You have options. We'll work through this.

Remember the worst case scenario still has all your basic needs covered.

[lizziegrace]

46. A part of me

just wants to die. How many times can a person keep failing?

[MadMaddie]

47. My friend it is not you who is failing

Corporations poor business plans and their disregard for the American workers is what is failing.

It's not you...

:grouphug:

[Dangerously Amused]

67. When I feel like I'm failing at something,

...and the reason why is either not apparent nor readily fixable, then I figure it's my inner wisdom telling me that, despite my (questionable) logic and stubbornness, it's really really time to take a new path.

[liberaltrucker]

48. See PM

:grouphug:

[femmocrat]

49. Oh no!

The job you just started? That's terrible!

:hug: Sending you some vibes for some better luck. You really deserve a break!

[lizziegrace]

50. 4th quarter was so bad

at least 5 jobs have been eliminated. Mine was one of them. I have impeccable timing. x(

[RFKHumphreyObama]

53. Oh no Lizziegrace, I'm so sorry

You deserve better than this. Much, much better:hug:

And it will come. Never lose hope, hard though it may seem. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers :hug: :hug:

[Callalily]

56. So sorry to hear this, so disheartened

for you. Don't have any more advice than what was stated above, so sending hugs, strength, and hopeful and helpful vibes.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[AirmensMom]

57. Oh no!

:cry: I'm so sorry.

:hug:

[Aristus]

59. Oh sweetie, I'm sorry...

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

60. ...

the hits just keep on comin'

x(

[merh]

61. Go to this website -

http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/

http://www.census.gov/2010censusjobs/

sorry about the hell you have gone through, don't give up :hug:

saying prayers and sending out cyber hugs and positive energies :loveya:

[lizziegrace]

62. Mehr!

:hug:

[merh]

64. jobs will be created

and jobs exist - hold the faith, keep your head up and press on (of course, if you need time down to heal, take it). It will be okay.

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

66. Oh, jesus christ.

I don't know what to say. :hug: <-- seems so trite.

[lizziegrace]

69. This little contest we've got going

has got to end. ;)

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

71. It will end.

Sometimes hope is all you can hold onto until the good finally comes. Hold on tight.

[LuckyTheDog]

68. I feel for you

Same thing happened to me in October.

[blondeatlast]

70. Oh, lizzie, I am so very sorry. Saying a prayer and will send

some physical care ($) when I'm able (in a couple of weeks).

In the meantime, :hug: to you all.

[undeterred]

72. I'm sorry.

:hug:

[MissMillie]

73. OMG.... lizziegrace

:hug:


I don't know what to say.

If I had any room in my house, I'd say come here. Right now, there's 3 of us in an apartment big enough for 1.

[Guava Jelly]

74. Sorry lizzie

:hug: I hope something else pops up for you. :hug:

[1gobluedem]

75. Oh no!

Not AGAIN. This is just too awful.

I'll ask all my relatives in Milwaukee to send me job leads. I'm so, so sorry. :hug:

[jobycom]

76. Damn. You need to kick life between the legs, seems to me.

Because it's not being fair to you. The Austin economy isn't bad, and we are snow-free. :shrug:

[lizziegrace]

79. Can't move

no way I can afford it. I paid Lelapin's tuition bill and I'll be lucky to get through this month since severance was not offered. My last check will be on the 16th for 6 days. Happy New Year. :eyes:

[kath]

80. Contact the school's financial aid office ASAP - explain the job loss, and ask if

they can come up with some additional aid for your daughter and give some of the tuition back to you. It never hurts to ask. I've heard that schools all around the country are having to come up with additional aid $$ for current students whose parents have lost their jobs.

[Arkansas Granny]

81. That's a good idea. It never hurts to follow up on all the options.

[KamaAina]

82. Maybe we could help her get something new going

specifically,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8388714&mesg_id=8388735