A good news, bad news situation arises.

[Rob_Royale]

About four years ago, the company I worked for was bought by another parent company and they did a layoff thereafter. This was the perfect job for me. I excelled, loved my team, the hours, the pay. I enjoyed coming to work every day. And then it was gone.

Now I have a job I hate, but it leaves me with lots of time for writing due to the nature of the shifts.

But, my old job has called me back and I interviewed earlier in the week. They are preparing an offer and I'm over the moon. But a lot of my writing time will be gone. I'm going to have a talk with my wife and arrange for some me time. But I expect, most of my writing will be done now in the winter after it snows, and when it's hot as blazes in the summer.

Such is life.

 

[Cagivagurl]

It's called the balance of life.
In the Bible they talk about,. "The Lord giveth, and the Lord Taketh away."
Win some lose some...
Karma...
Balance... If you want the good, you gotta accept a little pain... LOL... Sorry...

Cagivagurl

 

[SimonDoom]

About four years ago, the company I worked for was bought by another parent company and they did a layoff thereafter. This was the perfect job for me. I excelled, loved my team, the hours, the pay. I enjoyed coming to work every day. And then it was gone.

Now I have a job I hate, but it leaves me with lots of time for writing due to the nature of the shifts.

But, my old job has called me back and I interviewed earlier in the week. They are preparing an offer and I'm over the moon. But a lot of my writing time will be gone. I'm going to have a talk with my wife and arrange for some me time. But I expect, most of my writing will be done now in the winter after it snows, and when it's hot as blazes in the summer.

Such is life.

It's a mixed bag. When I was writing a lot more, I had more time, and my professional situation wasn't so great. Now it's much better but I have less time. I'd much rather have this. I can squeeze in time to write enough if I want to badly enough.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Congratudolences.

-Annie

 

[Smuttyandfun]

You're such a good writer, I'm sure you'll squeeze in some time to write.

And good luck with your job!

 

[Rob_Royale]

Thanks everyone. I received the offer and it's excellent. I start on the 28th.

 

[THBGato]

Congratulations!

Last May, I got through to the last two candidates for a promotion after two rounds of interviews. In the end I withdrew. While that was partly for family reasons - if I had got the job it would have meant relocating, and not everyone in the family was on board with that - at the back of my mind was the thought: "I'll be way too busy to write if I get this."

One of the reasons why I think I need to quit Literotica in the near future: it's affecting my enthusiasm for the day job!

 

[TheLobster]

But, my old job has called me back and I interviewed earlier in the week. They are preparing an offer and I'm over the moon.

Why would you even consider working again for a company who not only had unceremoniously laid you off before, but is now proving to have been managed so poorly that they’re actually discovering this “redundant” position of yours is quite crucial after all?

Absent dire financial straits, if I were in your shoes I’d tell them to pound sand whether or not it’d affect my writing schedule.

 

[onehitwanda]

Why would you even consider working again for a company who not only had unceremoniously laid you off before, but is now proving to have been managed so poorly that they’re actually discovering this “redundant” position of yours is quite crucial after all?

Sometimes business needs change. Four years is a lifetime in some jobs.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Why would you even consider working again for a company who not only had unceremoniously laid you off before, but is now proving to have been managed so poorly that they’re actually discovering this “redundant” position of yours is quite crucial after all?

Absent dire financial straits, if I were in your shoes I’d tell them to pound sand whether or not it’d affect my writing schedule.

Getting laid off is not a personal insult. Been there, done that, didn't hold a grudge.

-Rocco

 

[TheLobster]

Getting laid off is not a personal insult. Been there, done that, didn't hold a grudge.

The purpose of a layoff that immediately follows an acquisition is always to "trim the fat" off of the acquired company. To whomever had been let go in this particular way, it sends a clear signal that, despite the fact that the acquired company was deemed to be a worthy addition to the acquiring one, they weren't.

Maybe you (and Rob) can somehow shrug it off, but I would not appreciate it in the slightest if I was on the receiving of such targeted layoff (at least compared to the "usual" one, that is typically done to temporarily appease shareholders and can be justified in market or Wall Street terms).

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Why would you even consider working again for a company who not only had unceremoniously laid you off before, but is now proving to have been managed so poorly that they’re actually discovering this “redundant” position of yours is quite crucial after all?

Absent dire financial straits, if I were in your shoes I’d tell them to pound sand whether or not it’d affect my writing schedule.

Acquisitions like that create redundancies. The layoffs are necessary for the business to control costs and be profitable. Sounds like they're managed well enough to be growing and need more people.

@OP Congrats on the new(old) job. best of luck.

 

[AllenWoody]

There’s a story in here somewhere. A man ends up in a dead-end night job that he doesn’t care for. He’s bored and has too much time on his hands which he struggles to fill. Then he begins to receive visits from an increasingly corporeal she-spirit. When his old company calls him back he has a difficult decision to make.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Why would you even consider working again for a company who not only had unceremoniously laid you off before, but is now proving to have been managed so poorly that they’re actually discovering this “redundant” position of yours is quite crucial after all?
Absent dire financial straits, if I were in your shoes I’d tell them to pound sand whether or not it’d affect my writing schedule.

Originally there were four technicians. The new parent company chose who and when, and they kept the two techs that had been there the longest. Last April, one of the techs that stayed was in a rather bad accident and he's not expected to return. They called me and offered me his job. If people I worked for had treated me so, I'd agree with you, but they were as shocked as I was when it happened. My former manager and I are friends and have stayed in contact via social media ever since.

There’s a story in here somewhere.

You are probably right.

 

[AwkwardMD]

About four years ago, the company I worked for was bought by another parent company and they did a layoff thereafter. This was the perfect job for me. I excelled, loved my team, the hours, the pay. I enjoyed coming to work every day. And then it was gone.

Now I have a job I hate, but it leaves me with lots of time for writing due to the nature of the shifts.

But, my old job has called me back and I interviewed earlier in the week. They are preparing an offer and I'm over the moon. But a lot of my writing time will be gone. I'm going to have a talk with my wife and arrange for some me time. But I expect, most of my writing will be done now in the winter after it snows, and when it's hot as blazes in the summer.

Such is life.

Good for you. Your art is a gift, so I hope that you find an intersection of time and inspiration to keep at it, but this is the best possible reason for a regular to drop off the map for a while.

Get paid what you are worth.

 

[StillStunned]

I have the opposite situation just now. My wife's on holiday for a few weeks, so I was planning to catch up on loads of writing. Then earlier this week a client asked me for a job that would involve working 15 hours a day for the rest of the month. Hard work, but huge cash. So I resigned myself to not writing.

Then suddenly the client needed a fee quote to submit to their own client for approval, and the client's client said no.

On balance, I'm quite relieved. The money would have been nice, but I realise I'd rather spend my spare time writing.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Maybe you (and Rob) can somehow shrug it off, but I would not appreciate it in the slightest if I was on the receiving of such targeted layoff (at least compared to the "usual" one, that is typically done to temporarily appease shareholders and can be justified in market or Wall Street terms).

I didn't like being laid off (except one time, when I was really hoping to get the separation offer, because the job was miserable), but taking it personally would have been silly (for me, because it wasn't personal).

-Rocco

 

[soflabbwlvr]

It's a mixed bag. When I was writing a lot more, I had more time, and my professional situation wasn't so great. Now it's much better but I have less time. I'd much rather have this. I can squeeze in time to write enough if I want to badly enough.

I experienced exactly the same sequence of events. Ten-twelve years ago I was struggling professionally, and that left me plenty of time to write. Now work situation is great, but I have very little time to write. On the rare days off I get, I don't want to be chained to the desk. I'm averaging barely one story a year now. Trade-offs.