Laid off

mechanicalDvr

Just curious how many guys here are currently out of work?

G 71

The opposite here, been steady for the last couple years, and real busy with the heat wave this past week.

hvactech

no lay offs in my future, i cant even remember ever been laid off! maybe once 15 years ago, counting my blessings though!

mechanicalDvr

I thought things were pretty bad in MI, thats how it sounds over on Electriciantalk.com.

RoBoTeq

I'm a salesman; define "work"

jvegas

Well go to hear some are doing well I've been out since march

mechanicalDvr

You know work, the effort you do on a weekly basis so someone gives you a paycheck.

RoBoTeq

Being someone who has to actually produce sales in order to get that paycheck, I can say in all honesty that I have never worked so hard to make the same amount of money in all of my years in this industry.

When the pie is large, I can live off of a small slice of it. Now that the pie has become smaller, I need a larger piece of it in order to maintain. That is what all companies must do.

hvactech

Thats a terrible thing, are you in a union? Around here everyone I know who works in the union are laid off almost as much as they are working and now its getting even worse. I have never been in a union and also have never been laid off but once when i was a rookie, and I volunteered to be laid off, so I could enjoy some down time and let another co-worker who had a family to support, keep working, as I was single with very little responsibilties back then!

mechanicalDvr

I am Union and this is only the second time I have been laid off since 1986. The last time was right after I won an arguement over billable and payable hours with the boss. I won and lost at the same time. His shop is down to one man now so, I can't say he really won much.

jvegas

Hi guys just getting around to a response. I 'm not in the union it was a small hvac company just really slow with comercial work they cut the crew in half there down to 6 guys

mechanicalDvr

Sorry to hear you been out so long. I hope to be back in a couple weeks.

jvegas

thanks and good luck going back. I was hoping to go back to the same company but I think its time to look else where

JohnH1

I am looking foward to this winter. A/C is a luxury and customers can do without. Heat is a necessity they are going to call and get repaired. We always do much better in the winter. I have 6 or 7 of our trucks empty sitting in our parking lot. It is a sick feeling the trucks sitting there every morning. We have been getting more and more furnace start up and cleaning requests every day. I hope it continues and get as cold a a witches t!! I need to put people back in the trucks and get back to business. Hears hoping for a cold winter.

G 71

Stated heating pm's last week, go find those bad furnaces.

mechanicalDvr

Well, I have had two interviews through my local, both way farther than I would really want to drive daily but I would take them just the same.

I just got back from a week of job hunting in Virginia. What a difference in attitude
of the people just three hundred miles south of home. I need to move back below the Mason Dixon, yeah I was born a redneck.

jvegas

yeah I have a brother in nc. and he loves the peoples attitudes there better than mass.

RoBoTeq

Your local should be able to get you a job in Virginia

haleymcadams1

I've been laid back for two weeks last July but then got bored and finally got a job last August.

Nice! You got your own business.

Sorry to hear that. You'll find one don't worry.

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