Sometimes you just need to scream!!!

[Slugger926]

The two interviews that i thought I had has fallen through..... ughhhhhhh.....

 

[snickerd3]

bummer

 

[engineergurl]

keep hanging in there, you will get something when the right thing comes along!

 

[Supe]

P-Zero's are overrated. I put Kumho's on everything I have and my parents are seeing the light as well.

Hit or miss on Kumho's. I annihilated some Ecsta Supra's a few years ago. I've got General G-Max's now, and it's a little more all season, a little less ultra high performance than they'd suggested...

 

[envirotex]

Idiots.

(Not you guys, but you know what I mean.)

 

[cdcengineer]

Has anyone else noticed a slow-down in business this quarter? I hear about the uptick in the economy, but I haven't been seeing lately.

 

[Master slacker]

All I know is that the 5 day, around the clock turnaround I'm currently working was changed to a 4 day, 10 hour shift (x2) turnaround. No overtime is to be spent.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Has anyone else noticed a slow-down in business this quarter? I hear about the uptick in the economy, but I haven't been seeing lately.

It spun up this some spring, but nose dived in the late summer.

 

[Supe]

Still busy as can be, but that's because we understaff the **** out of $30B worth of projects.

 

[pbrme]

My company is suffering as well. DOE funding drives 90% of our business, and that's been on a slow decline over the last two years. To top it off, DOE also wants one of the main contractors off the nuclear cleanup project, so all (most) of their projects have been suspended. Secretary Chu has toured our facility twice in the last six months, and during that time my company has let go of a lot of people from my department. As of March the engineering group had: 12 engineers (including the manager) 4 of which are PE's, 5 detailer/CAD designers, and one technical writer for a total of 18 FTE. Now we're down to the manager (a PE), myself (a PE), an EI&C engineer, two Engineers on 1/2 time, and 3 designers for a total of 7 FTE's.

 

[snickerd3]

Ouch! DOD spending is down too...on the cleanup side that I deal with. BUt since we are short staffed in other parts of our section we are getting shifted to work on other stuff where we aren't spending enough resources to keep our grant $$$.

 

[blybrook PE]

There's been a slow down in my neck of the woods too. Seems like a lot of projects are getting killed midway through design. Combined with my office ticking off some of our long time clients and partners to the point of them not willing to work with us anymore; we've lost work; a lot of it.

It has gotten so bad recently that my boss stated that I should polish my resume and start looking for a new position elsewhere. The kicker is that I am (or was) in line to take his position when he retires in 2 years as the department head as I've been in this "job" for the past 7 years... Most of my department co-workers have been looking for work elsewhere for almost a year now; one was just hired in New Zealand and is waiting for her visa to get processed.

Depending on how this all works out, I may be forced to miss the first ever EB.com convention!

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Yuck. Someone heated up some fish in the microwave and now the whole office reeks.

 

[cdcengineer]

Has anyone else noticed a slow-down in business this quarter? I hear about the uptick in the economy, but I haven't been seeing lately.

It spun up this some spring, but nose dived in the late summer.

That's exactly what I've seen. It's like those with money know something that I don't

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Has anyone else noticed a slow-down in business this quarter? I hear about the uptick in the economy, but I haven't been seeing lately.

It spun up this some spring, but nose dived in the late summer.

That's exactly what I've seen. It's like those with money know something that I don't

I asked a contractor about that yesterday. He said everyone is tucking tail until November. After that, they'll either close up shop, or start building again.

Leastwise, that's the message he was getting from the construction world.

 

[Flyer_PE]

^That's the same message I've been hearing from the coal-fired power plant world.

 

[cdcengineer]

It's scary b/c this election might just go the wrong way.

 

[Supe]

It's scary b/c this election might just will probably go the wrong way.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

It's scary b/c this election might just will probably go the wrong way.

If history is any indication, it is rare for a President to lose a re-election bid, unless a strong third party candidate (like Perot in92) runs.

 

[envirotex]

I asked a contractor about that yesterday. He said everyone is tucking tail until November. After that, they'll either close up shop, or start building again.

Leastwise, that's the message he was getting from the construction world.

Same for job postings. Keep your head down until after November, I think.