h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think it was a shock to me the first time I was laid off, but as it happened about four times after that, I got used it!

There was a fear that came over me that I may never find another job? but luckily for me it was in the late seventies, and the oil construction business was booming. So I started with another firm, only to be paid off yet again after working my way up to a staff position!
After that, I never believed any of that loyality to the firm crap, I was only there for the money, not to be popular.

Its hard to popular any way when your in a supervisory position, but then again you had to watch what you were about, as the time could, and did indeed come, when one of your squad is your boss on another project on a different site!

So with all this in mind, us "subbies" treated redundancy like a joke, thats why we never taken on as "staff" we were just a small army of well qualified, experienced, travellers, that went form job to job as they came. It was sad day for me, when I returned home from Russia to find that those days and lifestyle were over.