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  • I was laid off from what I thought was a long term job

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  • I'm still plugging away at my pre-recession job

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    ^ who knows, they could have done a lot of work for a builder who went bankrupt and went subsequently unpaid. Pretty common now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 16hypen3sp View Post
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    Westridge Cabinets is finished. Bankrupt. Large amount of people affected in Red Deer. Girlfriends friend got lucky as she was laid off in March with severance and got another job in the same industry quickly.

    A redditor uploaded a pic of the notice on the door.

    https://imgur.com/a/1qSOIlD
    And Westridge bought Classic Kitchens last fall and absorbed their operation. Know a few cabinet installers who were subbing to Westridge and their payout structures on their jobs was quite different than anyone else in the industry, I would bet that those installers are happy they left. It will be interesting to see which companies get Westridge's work, from what I've heard the quality of the installs of their product was very poor in the past few months. Might be a good opportunity for an old fart like me to fix up some of that shit.
    Will fuck off, again.

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    A downhole coil tubing tools company did 35 layoffs yesterday. This was their first "big" round since the start of the recession
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    ...Last thing I want is someone reading my posts and losing their cock over it...
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    Meh, they all look like Jackie Chan to me
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    I'm generally cute.

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    Because my dick is big.
    .... you have my attention

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    Quote Originally Posted by schurchill39 View Post
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    A downhole coil tubing tools company did 35 layoffs yesterday. This was their first "big" round since the start of the recession
    Who was it?

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    I just got some intel where rumor has it another pretty big gas company is hours away from death. It'll be interesting to see if that's true and who drops next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThePenIsMightier View Post
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    I just got some intel where rumor has it another pretty big gas company is hours away from death. It'll be interesting to see if that's true and who drops next.
    I could name like 10 that are on the brink.

    Without red water they all would be under.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lasimmon View Post
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    Who was it?
    Rhymes with NCS
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    Meh, they all look like Jackie Chan to me
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    Forgot to mention.... picked up a turnaround/projects pipefitter while driving for Uber last week who told me Keyera is finally shutting down their Nevis gas plant operation. Permanently.

    Grew up not too far from this facility and honestly, it's been a long time coming.
    Looking around
    Wondering what became
    Of what I once knew

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    Westridge Cabinets has apparently promised that all employees and subcontractors will be paid out to the end of July for all work performed. This should ensure that most cabinet install jobs that are currently on site or that have been produced will get installed. It's the bigger projects that will be interesting as those builders will now be scrambling to find other cabinet companies to take over those jobs.
    Will fuck off, again.

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    Make @speedog great again

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    Sounds like things are still pretty slow in calgary. Im moving back pretty soon, got a call back for a company i was laid off from in 2015.

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    Was told yesterday that our parent company is pulling the plug on us, everyone will be packaged out sometime in the next couple of months. The US O&G market is starting to slide enough that they're tightening belts and pulling funding from most of their technology upgrades.

    Good times.

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    People are being laid off where I work quite heavily. They've also implemented a cost savings initiative that basically scraps all training, parties and other good stuff for the next year. One of the big GC's.

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    Long time coming or knee-jerk with recent recession speculations?
    Ultracrepidarian

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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    Long time coming or knee-jerk with recent recession speculations?
    For us it was a result of a dropping rig count in the US and nothing positive on the horizon. The desire to innovate is pretty heavily tied to revenue and when money coming in starts to slow down R&D is usually the first to get cut.

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    Slowdown in US oil and gas is very concerning. Luckily my company is growing market share so that should help a lot. If we can capture a steady 1% of USA market we are going to be decent. 5% would be a ramp up, even as the activity goes down.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    I'm thinking long time coming. We got lots of work, just the people managing it are idiots and now the fat has to go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perfect Dark View Post
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    For us it was a result of a dropping rig count in the US and nothing positive on the horizon. The desire to innovate is pretty heavily tied to revenue and when money coming in starts to slow down R&D is usually the first to get cut.
    I think you might work with my wife as they were just told yesterday that they were done OCT 10.

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