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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Possibly, but if you're willingly deluding yourself, isn't it your own fault? The times I've been working for companies at risk of disappearing it was more of a low level worry, where you're looking for other jobs on the side without over-stressing about what you can't change. But no matter how the positive talk came down, when cost-cutting measures were implemented we knew why and what it meant.
I suspect that they'd want to switch jobs but a) are hoping to make it to retirement, b) hoping for a severance package and/or c) can't find anything else right now, or d) retail is retail failing business or not.
I don't know, I just don't think your job should ever have the same amount of affect or spin on your thoughts as like... (bad analogy) an abusive partner.
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I don't think it's necessarily their own fault... I don't know. I hesitate to think of my coworkers that were blindsided when their subsidiary of the larger company was shut down and they were laid off as people who wouldn't "get it" - I guess it depends on the sector though as it was definitely not retail, and the rest of the subsidiaries were having banner years.
It also depends on the cost-cutting - it happens in good times and in bad. Part of it (I'm sure) also has something to do with whether or not you hate, like, or love your job, and the company that you work for. I'm not saying that Blockbuster is "OMG like the best company EVAR!" but I'm sure there are people there that love their job and the company.
If people are looking for other jobs (which really I think everyone should do whether or not they like their job now just because it helps you to know what you're worth as a worker), and waiting until those come through, that's one thing, but I'd imagine people would be leaving in droves rather than trickles. I don't know what Blockbuster's current workforce looks like, though, so I have little frame of reference.
ETA: FWIW, many of the employees from the different subsidiary of my own company were either moved before the end of their employment or subsequently hired by other subsidiaries of the company. Keeping it in the family, and that. At least 5 of my coworkers were laid off at the other subsidiary, and we're a 20 person department.