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Nope! Never! Not a chance! And now with the new location absolutely not!
When you have no clue what your role is as a Manager or leader the only way to survive is by deceit and lies. Keep your story straight amongst your peers and lie to the rest.
What started as a great job for a good company with decent management 10 years ago, ended as a stressful loathsome job, for a struggling company with lying, deceitful, egomaniacs who have poor management skills and fostered a abysmal work environment. Actually feel that they did.me a favor.
I don't know. They say you should never burn your bridges, but on the other hand once you have been let go, especially with over 15 years of service, it would be hard to go back to it, You have been rejected, found unsuitable, perhaps cynical and jaded. I remember a really fun company I joined which was a wonderful place to work for. Now it's all down to a focus on cost, so much more so than ever before.
So say they let me go. I'm in Europe and thanks to European law I'd get a fairly decent payout, At minimum, a fifth of a year's salary, and probably half (although anything over the fifth is discretionary; the law only mandates a fixed amount per year of service as a minimum and at some point they may well sink to that legal minimum). Would I go back?
Well, I stuck with the company so long because I like it, but that relationship does not necessarily cut both ways. The company might like me but ultimately it's beholden to its shareholders. Corporations don't have a conscience.
What pisses me off is realising all those in high paid C-level posts probably walk - if they ever have to walk - with a year's salary on a rolling contract basis plus share options. Compared to what we get .. all I can say is ... F--- you.
Also while we've faced a salary freeze for ... is it two or three years? ... I bet they have not seen a freeze in their salary. Oh but boo hoo, their stock options might have declined. Well, I doubt they struggle to pay for a place to live, or to deal with spiralling commuting costs both in terms of time and money (something very relevant to my colleagues in Houston, now that they are relocating to Generation Park). "Oh dear, we're relocating to the other side of Houston? Never mind, with my $579,000 salary plus the $5 million in stock options [ok so the value of that can vary up and down ... poor them] I can relocate my house."
So what was the question again? Oh, would I return to work for them? Well, double my salary once you're all in the sh-- and I'd think about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind going to work for somewhere smaller with less b---s---.
I would NEVER go back to FMC!!The MOST SCREWED UP, INCOMPETENT MACHINE SHOP I HAVE EVER WORKED IN!!!! TOTALLY A 3 RING CIRCUS RUN BY CLOWNS!!!!
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that is a very good question which will bring a whole gamut of different responses, for over 20 years I was considered a valuable contributing asset that was equally compensated for my efforts, when I was a newbie I saw the respect that the senior employees had earned and most never left that employer. Even thru two other severe downturns in business, management had the foresight and planning to survive and at the same time keep its employees gainfully employed albeit not always directly related to the core business. However the last year and half, I somehow became a liability most likely related to my seniority and was one of the chosen first to be eliminated during another bad business climate. As I looked around, many of my contributing peers(excellent older employees) faced the same discarding, there are not many jobs out there and I was very close to retirement, YES, I would go back and finish an excellent journey to the end.
Really liked my job and many of the people I worked with there. Actually got interviewed 3 separate times for open positions shortly after being let go. I thought for sure I was going to get rehired. Nailed all the interviews, have the experience and product knowledge and could have easily hit the ground running in any of the jobs I interviewed for. Unfortunately for me I was not rehired for any of the positions. That hurt more than being let go initially. Obviously not welcome back by some people there but all that said I would go back. Really was hoping to retire from FMC with a cake and a handshake.
Life goes on ...