TravisDBA (10/30/2012)
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 management and they are still there years later. “Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines”:-D
Travis,
I started in the business in 1972. I have never been fired. I have left a job or two and gone elsewhere but only by my own choice. I have faced numerous layoffs and have wondered but my number has not come up, and from what I understand it has never been close. I am not a weasel nor do I think the attributes of a weasel are appropriate in the office at any level or any position. If I were to guess why this has happened I would say it is because I try to solve the problems people have or point them towards a solution if I do not have a clue. I honestly say I do not know when I do not, and if I state an opinion I make certain that they know that it is an opinion. As long as I help others solver their problems as well as be productive in what I am suppose to do things have worked out well.
I can say the "That more often then not has been the case". But I cannot say that it is always the case.
I can thus say that I agree for the most part but not completely.
M.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!