When people you work with quit
 

Do you feel sad and bummed? I usually do, and it's not really that I'm close to them but just that over the years I've grown used to their presence. Today in our weekly meeting two people announced they were leaving. I'm really sad about it because I really like working with them. One is going back to Scotland and the other is going back to the midwest where she has family to raise her daughter. For the latter, I think she wants to leave her full-time position as a librarian to spend more time with her 1-year-old, and for the former, I believe it's more financial circumstances. He said it's too difficult to live in California now. I'm really saddened by this news :( Both are great people. Now if the dept. head, whom I still have a major crush on, leaves, I don't know what I will do! Anyway, I wonder if the California economic situation is driving out people.

Hey at least they didn't get laid off. Back in December I came in to work one Monday and the two guys on either side of me were completely packed up and gone. The Friday before, they got an email at 4pm saying they needed to turn in their computers and pack their bags...stupid economy :(

There are studies that indicate that in the case of layoffs, there is a considerable emotional and morale toll on those that survive the cuts.

I've worked in the same place for the last nine years. Full complement is ten people. I've seen over twenty six rotate thru over that time. Some I really don't mind and other's I've been happy to see leave. But four of them were people I really liked working with and it's been hard to have them leave. You just have to try and get past it. For me work is what I do to pay the rent/mortgage. My life is outside the office.

- Peter.

Kind of like that survivor guilt that people suffer after making it through a horrendous accident like a plane or bus wreck...

It's another reminder that nothing lasts forever. Also, people who move around are overall more successful than those who stay in place. My sis visited our old stomping grounds in NJ, to visit old friends and just to see how her life would have been like had she stayed. In a nutshell, she is glad that she got out when she did.

We had our cuts in April...company let go of the top-earners...these were the best and the brightest!

Not sure that was a brilliant strategy, given that you need your talent to get you through the tough times! :confused:

Not too many leaving due to lack of jobs elsewhere, but one guy just turned in his badge last week without a word. He seemed miserable here, anyway.

Otherwise, the most annoying and least productive seem to always remain with us, no matter how severe the round of layoffs! Go figure! :rolleyes:

I never bother to learn anyone's name for a few months, as there is some turnover here.

Some people who leave, I really miss, others, well, I think the company is strengthened by the loss...

Unfortunately, I have worked in a number of places where the management seemed determined to pit the employees against one another. It didn't do much to foster the type of realtionships in which you care about your coworkers. Maybe that's something to do with being in sales.

I have to make my friends somewhere other than at work. I have become very close to some of my customers over the years, though.

I usually don't like the people I work with, so its all good to me! :D Unless the next person who comes in is even worse.... :eek:

As some of you know, I am a bit of a Ford historian. For all the innovative things he did, and his relatively enlightened approach to the assemble line workers, his treatment of management was stone-age.
Mr. Ford did not believe in job titles, so people often were quite insecure in their responsibilities. He often gave two or more men the same task, and then watched to see who would prevail. "Lets see you and him fight it out" was a quote attibuted to him on several occasions. As a result, the Rogue became the fiefdom of petty tyrants, and an unpleasant place to work.

I am fortunate to watch co-workers leave and go onto better positions for themselves, although we form a tight bond here, on one level it's sad to see them leave but it's nice to see people go onto bigger and better things. I've been here 19 years and sometimes it seems like the front door should be a turnstile(sp.)

Do you ever wonder if the ones leaving are the smart ones, and we, who stay behind, are the dummies?

One way of viewing employees that stay in one position for an extraordinary amount of time . . . lack of imagination. ;)

If you're good at your job, like it, and like the pay, why should you want to move up/out?