At the undisclosed ISP I work at, they had quite a few layoffs; they said that this was to "break even" and fired alot of the people we depended on the most. Included in these were people in our NOC (Network Operations Center) and our only person in the Network Security department, who helped customers with problems like getting hacked, getting harassed online, etc. So who does all their jobs now? Well, the NOC is like at half the staff they were at, and Security is done by the regular techs, who have no idea what to do since we've had no training in these issues. Wtf??
The best part was, when this happpened, the main office told us that they could guarantee our jobs until the end of the year, but they weren't sure after that. I'm kind of hoping I get laid off....that means I can start going to school to be a car mechanic instead of a god damn computer technician! It's funny, I thought this profession would be so great, but now I find that all the tech jobs either are getting filled, or are just being plain terminated.
