Safe for Now...

Safe for another week...

I am working in the Oil and Gas industry right now... as many other jobs... not so secure... and the rumors have been flying around the office about lay-offs for a few months now... mind you it is a very small office five girls as surface land administrators... I'm the newest here and then we have two land guys plus the boss who is a land man as well... so its a small office but we do work for some big clients... unfortunately it is so slow... and budget cuts with the big guys filter down to us... so they have stopped drilling completely... there office has laid off quite a few people and they have decided to do a lot of work in house... rather than use us to save money... so needless to say... it's slow very slow... I've started a blog at work... I've read the twilight book on the Internet ... that was after I brought my book to work to read... as well as the leaked version of Midnight Sun... I told you I had become a bit obsessed...

Anyway so we all have pretty much been just waiting to get laid off ... About a month and a half ago we thought for sure we would be gone... our parking passes were up in February and we just assumed it was time... the three of us, who think we will be the first to go, all wore black that Friday, which was the Friday our boss was off to Mexico for two weeks, were preparing for the news and then he just left at 3 that day, told us to have a good couple of weeks and he would see us after his vacation! So we were safe for Two weeks!!! Yippee! Two weeks came and went... We received an annual parking pass, good news for us we think and then now its been another month...

But such as life, more bad news came this past week, even less work coming our way then thought so we were preparing once again ... this Thursday... today.... the day our boss goes to Hawaii for a week... but same thing, left at 4 with a good-bye see you in a week!

SO we are Safe for Now... we all speculate we will be laid off when he gets back... or at least our hours cut until it picks up again...

Nothing much we can do... wait and see... and keep my good ol' resume up to date and be ready and willing to take anything I can get in this economy...

Well then Until Next Time – J