Edmhydraulics
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So I got a call about a week ago as I was driving from one customer to the other, about 450km's apart. "Hey can you stop by the shop and drop your keys, computer and phone, we are laying you off". This after I had just secured a $500,000 sale for a bunch of HPU's and while I had a customers system taken apart and was heading up north to put it back together.
I begged the owner to "allow" me to continue working for another day so I could get said customer back up and running. Only because my personal reputation was at stake, and I didnt want to leave him high and dry over a stupid decision by the company I worked for.
I know what it was, I was forced out not laid off, my new boss had never called me, spoke to me, or sent me an email in the 4 months since he was assigned the job. So I get it, he didnt like me for some reason, he was a dinosaur anyways, hated electronic controls because he was scared of them. No loss there.
A while ago, the recruiters were banging on the door, I actually started to get a bit snippy with them because when pressed regarding specifics for a particular job they would come back with some HR written garbage that could have been describing a refuse collector or the president of the company. Which I saw as just plain laziness on the part of the recruiter who was just after his or her commission. Needless to say, they must have a group chat somewhere and blacklisted me and now I cant get one of them to answer an email.
Rant, Rave, Rant, Rave.
So here I am, 20 years of experience designing, building, testing, troubleshooting, programming, hydraulic related equipment and units and for the life of me, its very difficult to get someone to answer an email. I have applied for all manner of jobs, from service tech, to sales. What happened to the brain drain, and the skills gap due to retirement of the baby boomers?
I know that the oilpatch is a tough place to get work right now due to low oil prices, but this is ridiculous.
It really makes me wonder.
Edm.
I begged the owner to "allow" me to continue working for another day so I could get said customer back up and running. Only because my personal reputation was at stake, and I didnt want to leave him high and dry over a stupid decision by the company I worked for.
I know what it was, I was forced out not laid off, my new boss had never called me, spoke to me, or sent me an email in the 4 months since he was assigned the job. So I get it, he didnt like me for some reason, he was a dinosaur anyways, hated electronic controls because he was scared of them. No loss there.
A while ago, the recruiters were banging on the door, I actually started to get a bit snippy with them because when pressed regarding specifics for a particular job they would come back with some HR written garbage that could have been describing a refuse collector or the president of the company. Which I saw as just plain laziness on the part of the recruiter who was just after his or her commission. Needless to say, they must have a group chat somewhere and blacklisted me and now I cant get one of them to answer an email.
Rant, Rave, Rant, Rave.
So here I am, 20 years of experience designing, building, testing, troubleshooting, programming, hydraulic related equipment and units and for the life of me, its very difficult to get someone to answer an email. I have applied for all manner of jobs, from service tech, to sales. What happened to the brain drain, and the skills gap due to retirement of the baby boomers?
I know that the oilpatch is a tough place to get work right now due to low oil prices, but this is ridiculous.
It really makes me wonder.
Edm.
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