Loner (11/26/2007)
No one is indispensable especially in big company. It does not matter if you are the only one who know the system or you have the best skill set. The ones who never get layoff are the ones who know how to play company politics.
Now there is someone who has dealt wiith the "real world". What you know has very little to do with why you get laid off. That has always been the case. I have seen "people" (weasels) that don't know how to pour urine out of a boot with the directions written on the heel, but they happen to be good friends and play golf with upper managment and they are still there years later. “Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines”:-D
"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"