I was laid off a few weeks ago...but contrary to being sad it's been such a relief...not having to walk into the office and do the same monotonous job every morning.
Not having to see the faces of hipocresy and incompetency of upper management and their noses is a plus...followed by all of the ass kissing and sucking up of my fellow ex coworkers who use their charm to be the favorites and move up the ladder. There are other companies that truly care about their workers even in these tough times...a family member of mine works for a smaller oil and gas company, and instead of chopping heads and letting go of valuable talent they dida temporary salary cut of 20% for all personnel including the CEO. Thinking back about the people that big blue kept is a little illogical...most of them about 80% of the group got there and spent almost 3 hours of their day talking in somebody's cubicle or office chatting about partying...making plans for lunch later in the week or just plain stupid talk that made the laughing to be heard throughout half of the building...not to mention the guy out of the group that acted as a detective and tried to be aware of the latest rumors in the group, why somebody's is absent and is always spending most of their time in the managers office trying to earn those extra points....I wasn't part off the group...didn't wasted half of my day in their conversations...or trying to suck up to my manager...even though I was let go off...I'm relief to be out of that work environment...but I do wonder how many of those suck up, time wasters or manager favorites have been left throughout SLB?