The BIG lay-off today - Liz

I have not posted on this site for a long, long time because there is so much negativity on here and stuff that was posted that is simply untrue.  Not sure why anyone would stay with a company when they are so unhappy and then good people get laid off.  Today I got the call, about 3 hours into my shift. I knew something was up as my caller ID never says Medquist on it.  My TSM's voice sounded really awful and all she could say was I am sorry to call with bad news but you have been laid off effective immediately. I felt really bad for her and really was in shock I guess.  Not sure it has truly hit me.  My TSM was a fabulous person and I loved working on her team.  I have read all the comments about what transpired today and I can only share what happened to me.  I have been with the company over 7 years.  I started this career after taking an early retirement at age 50 from a part time job I had for 28 years.  Fortunately I have my benefits through that company.  I loved working from home and being able to set my own schedule.  I never had a problem getting time off when I needed it.  I only called in sick once when I was in the hospital undergoing surgery for 2 kidneys stones.  That is 1 sick day in 7 years.  I was just audited last week and it came back 99.50%.  I  typed 100 lines over the required line count for a part timer, or more.  I was praised all the time by my QC and my TSM.  I was as shocked as anyone.  There is no rhyme nor reason for this as far as I am concerned.  It is like they threw all our names in a hat and drew them out one by one.  I was told it was part timers going, though seems that full timers got it as well.  I know my TSM had made other calls so not sure if it was across the company or just certain BOBs, but I know my TSM is concerned about her own job as well.  I sure wish I had been given options as I am flexible and could have moved up a tier or worked other hours to keep my job but was not.   In the past months, I think the under performers were let go and I was happy for that as I never understood being low on work and yet letting people continue to hold a job that they really did not appreciate.  I never imagined that someone like myself would get the call.  I was told there is simply not enough work to go around and corp made this decision without any discussin with the TSMs.  I have already spent several hours online today filing for UE and taking their new required skill test and putting together a resume for them.  I do not know if I would do this kind of work again as the pay is just not good for the hours I put in, but I sure loved working from home; that was for sure a BIG bonus.  Good luck to those that were let go and to those still here, I hope you can appreciate what you have because I would go on working under any circumstances just to know in 2 weeks I had a paycheck coming in.  So long M*Modal............