January 3, 2013

• Half a paycheck…

  I got a call from my boss today.  Evidently while I’ve been on vacation, our office has been putting a ton of time into one particular client.  Now that client is refusing to pay because they claim the problem was not theirs (that is debatable – they were told to use a dedicated server but they are using a shared server and having problems now with memory leaks.)  So the company (8 total employees including the owner) is having cash flow problems.  I expected him to tell me he was going to have to lay me off.  But instead he said he would only be able to give me half my pay.  I told him that was acceptable considering I just got back from vacation and didn’t work the full pay period anyway. But this leaves me wondering…

  He said if we get over this ‘hump’ things will pick up.  We have prospects and work scheduled for late January and ongoing.  But I’m skeptical now.  He won’t go out of business.  He’s been doing business for 40 years and has weathered worse storms.  However, he has also cut and grown his staff as the economy dictated.

  I sent out five resumes today.  I will miss working from home.  I am hoping that this one ‘half paycheck’ is just this one time and things will return to normal, but now I feel like I need to keep my resume updated and out there.  I have plenty of marketable skills.  The only thing I don’t have in my skill set is having my skills apply to the automotive industry, which is still the main industry in Michigan (especially in the area in which I live.)

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