Job Security

United States
November 20, 2010 12:29pm CST
Do you have a job or are you unemployed? If you are working how secure is your? Do you really believe that you are expendable to your company? What are you doing on your job that would make the company need you in a way that letting you go would put a dent in the company's creditability or their budget. Can you really say that you love your job or is ti that you hate your job and dread going there every single day. The way the recession is today can you afford to be let go and then what! Companies today are letting employees go and hiring people that are willing to work for less money, so the more money you make the less job security you have because you are at risk of being let go because you make to much money. You try your hardest to do the best you can to stay with the company. Do you think they recognize your ability and hard work or is it just a numbers game as to how they can save more money by letting you go. Are we all just a number to the company we work for and we're on a list where they can scratch off all the people they can get rid of to save more money. I know that's not the list I want to be on. Everyday you wake up you wonder is today gonna be the day that the company recognize you as expendable or scratch you off the list.Can we really be expendable to our company and if so how do we accomplish this? We need to be recognize as expendable people in this world and not just a number.if you believe in God and read his word then you can accomplish this because he is the source for everything we do in life. So let him help you be recognized as expendable.
2 responses
maximumgravity1
@maximumgravity1 (245)
• United States
20 Nov 10
Interesting topic, but I need to start by saying "expendable" is the wrong word. Something that is expendable is something that can be easily discarded - "likely to be spent". I think you mean irreplaceable. Anyway, for the most part, I believe all people are expendable, and no one is irreplaceable. I have worked my way o the top of small companies and larger ones, and in every instance, no matter how valuable I think I am, no matter what role I play, and no matter how few people I answer to, not a single business has shut down because I walked out the door (except the ones I owned myself). The next day, business continues along. In several cases, I had built complete infrastructures within the IT department or e-commerce department, and was the only one that really knew the systems inside and out. The business either hires someone else that can figure it out, recreate it, or they revert back to how they did things before I came along. In the end, as much as we like to think otherwise, and despite what our bosses tell us, we are all just cogs in a wheel. No matter how inconvenient our leaving may be, the business will open the doors the day after we leave and continue on.
maximumgravity1
@maximumgravity1 (245)
• United States
20 Nov 10
Forgot to mention (in keeping with your topic) I used to joke that I had so much job security, I couldn't handle any more. Even though I was never in fear of being fired, I knew it wasn't an impossibility. Since I never married into the owners family, and was never related to the boss, I knew that if I could quit, I could also be fired. Because I can choose to leave, they could also ask me to leave. Granted, it would take a monumental screw up, likely with intent to undermine the company, but there is no such thing as "locked in" job security.
silentwill
@silentwill (1685)
• Philippines
21 Nov 10
I'd like to believe I have security in my job. I've been here for two year and got a promotion on the first year. However, the industry I'm in is rather a fast-paced one and I just might not know but something could possibly happen, who knows?