America's Financial Meltdown: How has it affected your life?

This whole deal has made me appreciate my job more. We've cut 7 people from our department. It takes a toll but you do what you can and count yourself lucky that you're still here. We won't be getting raises this year but that's fine. If me not getting my 5% increase saves someone's job, I'm all about it. I still got a 3% performance bonus so it pretty much evens out. We sent our corporate helpdesk overseas last year so that cut plenty of corporate jobs. As of this June or July, the entire Memphis corporate office will be closed. Again, good people that I've worked with for years that are gone. Just sucks.

In the end, I can't worry myself to death about it. If I do get canned, I'll be able to pay my house note for 6 months with my severence and then i'll still have what's left of my 401k and vacation pay to live on. After that, it's off to work at McDonald's or whatever I can find. I'm lucky enough to have lots of family nearby. The old folks are retired so that counts as a free babysitter. And if worse comes to worse, I've already been told that we can move back in with either my or my wife's parents. That would suck but with the way things are going, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

One way or another, things will work out.

Jam it back in, in the dark.