Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Broadway office space i Corner excellent View 9257664 Winnipeg free press Money Section Philip 6977017 b5 april 1994 Job loss All too familiar by Murray Mcneill Stet writer Gerald Joyce is no stranger to the 39yearold father of four has been Laid off four times in the last 13 years from his Job with a local farm equipment manufacturing and Hes found that no matter How Many times it it never gets any easier to Deal i end up getting deeper and deeper in a depression every time it a Layoff the slightly built Blu Collar worker admitted during a recent interview in the Kitchen of his modest Norbert each time you learn to Hustle a Little he adds with a but it Doest get any easier to not alone and Joyce is not alone in feeling that according to one local outplacement Rudy director of Price Waterhouses Centre for career said being Laid off is a difficult thing to Deal no mat Ter who you my philosophy is that it Doest matter who the person if you run a knife Over their there going to Thiessen and Don senior reemployment consultant with Eloitte said losing a Job is similar to losing a loved people experience Many of the same reactions and emotions first then then a de sire to try to bargain their Way out of their then Depres Sion and and Thiessen said it also can be traumatic for another its a painful process to lose your Job because in our we Are what we he its a sad but its when i dont do anything when my Job is i dont have an identity but while Joyce has had More than his fair share of identity crises in the last 13 things Are actually going pretty Well for him at the on 9 this he was called Back to work at versatile farm equipment and Hes hopeful hell be Able to stay on the Job for at least two or three years this by he May have enough seniority that hell be Able to Dodge the Bullet if the agriculture Industry takes another downturn and versatile is forced to Cut Back Barry Skene and Debbie Galis Chuk Are two More Manitoban who Are trying to rebuild their lives after being Laid off from their and so it Hast been Skene was one of 32 Winnipeg workers who were Laid off last year from their jobs at Livingston distribution while Zalischuk was one of several Hundred work ers Laid off at the Hudson Bay Gerald Joyce has been Laid off four times in 13 years and he finds that it never gets any easier to Deal it the tines to fret about to Wall of this is life when a company closes or reduces the fallout can be in this fou part business reporter Murray Mcneil examines How some Laid off workers Cope better than and what can be done to help adjust to life after mining smelting operation in Skenes last working Day was in while Zalischuk has been off the Job since neither one is sure what do a 38yearold single Mother with two sons aged 12 and said shed like to make a career she Hopes to take a two year business administration then land a Job with her fathers fledgling Shes awaiting word on whether the Federal government will agree to pay her tuition As Shes awaiting the out come of an ongoing dispute with unemployment insurance officials Over How much in i benefits Shes entitled to in the Zalischuk con going to work and whether Shell be Able to hang on to her starter some nights Imok and other nights in a downcast Galis Chuk said during an is also leaning toward getting some probably Hes also been kicking around the idea of starting his own Law care although theres also a Chance he could be recalled by Skene said Hes not his wife has a Good he so with her wages and his i there getting but Treyve had to put most of their Lon term plans on he and being unemployed is re ally starting to get to attitude everything if i have to take three jobs at five Bucks an ill do we All started out with and ill do it i have and that the kind of attitude to Days workers need to adopt if they want to Bounce Back from the loss of a according to Price water houses attitude is it May be a but its As True a thing As you can if in positive and i know things will work maybe not As quickly As i would but it will work but if you make up your mind you wont make you probably next getting Back on your feet local firm forges link Wykell Taylor staff writer a Small Winnipeg computer consulting company has landed an agreement its owner feels will be key to cracking the giant Insi integrated systems has reached a joint working partnership with locus computing of los a i omillion software firm specializing in open systems soft Don president of said the Deal Means the two Compa Nies will work together to present proposals and develop computer business applications for our growth in Winnipeg should continue with or without this agree but it greatly improves our chances to grow our business in the Lundgren said Isis strength is developing business applications for Large locus has exper Tise in developing the software to support those both companies saw a real advantage to working together Given our much different skill sets that Are quite he founded in employs 20 people in Winnipeg and one at its Branch office in los locus was founded 11 years ago and employs 175 people in offices in los an and in with the Insi will expand its los Angeles office As the business and locus plans to open an office in Lundgren said locus will initially open shop in Isis Broadway ave nue but added it will Likely outgrow those quarters within three to six the Deal is not a merger and its not a Lundgren creditors approve restructuring plan Canadian press Toronto Agnew a major Canadian shoe retail says its Back on solid ground after creditors voted in favor of the company restructuring plan today events protect the interests of the 249 dozens of Canadian footwear the Canadian shop Ping Public and other Agnew president William Aziz said in an Agnew has closed so stores and Cut about 200 jobs since Early Gebru when it announced it had received court Protection from Credi the company owed the Royal Bank at least Revenue Canada million and others a fresh approach to an old hotel in the latest attempt to revive the sagging fortunes of the hotel fort its owners have decided to take a different instead of hiring High priced hotel they decided to team up with people who have never operated a hotel Rick Bel and Ida the couple behind the successful Sandpiper and Prairie Oyster restaurants at the started out operating the hotels banquet now they Are running the hotel and Are part Albo said the hotel originally approached them to handle All the food she said they agreed to do the banquet services and were doing so on a month month she they were made an whatever we just Albo Bel and Albo believe that the secret to the Success of the 246room hotel is for it to be run As if it were a much smaller a lot of it is Bel we have to try to find our this can be a mid priced hotel with not a corporate wont be a bed and but the feeling i want is something like since the hotel was closed and Jaken Over by the Citrin 1987for owing Back taxes of the Martin Cash property has changed hands three current the Laberge family of Quebec Are in the lumber and building Supply they became owners of the hotel after the Bank foreclosed on the former flamboyant Quebec entrepreneur Raymond his Soninlaw reacquired it with the help of a loan from the Laberge almost exactly a year ago he fell into arrears and the Laberge took at hat a member of the Laberge family said they were committed to running the but would be glad to entertain serious offers on the the local hotel business has been under siege through most of the several hotels have been in receivership for extended and ban appointed receivers have been unable even to sell the prestigious Sheraton Winnipeg Hatel for the past a spokesman for the Laberge said this week that arrangements have been made for the hotel fort Garry to be part of the Clarion hotel allowing it to take advantage of its National marketing and reservation Laberge said the family spent december and january figuring out what to do about the management of the we met with consultants and i would say these were the people Bel and Albo who impressed us they Are very Bright asked How he thought they were going to be Able to manage the hotel As Well As the two restaurants they Are already working hard Laberge said Only the future will Tell the while Winni Eggers Are fond of the 82yearold they also remember its Winni Eggers have lost Confidence in the hotel delivering on anything Albo at the same time they want to support Winni Eggers want to make it one of the perceived Savior of the fort Garry in recent years was the Manitoba lotteries foundations decision to set up the Crystal Casino on the top two floors in december this the foundation exercised its option to renew its lease for another five that decision May be As much a curse As a Blessing for the hotels owners and it is a delicate and unusual tenant landlord Laberge while the hotels owners May not be totally convinced the Casino and the hotel work Susan spokeswoman for the Manitoba lotteries said the downtown locale is perfect for the Crystal casinos intimate she said research indicates about 25 per cent of the casinos patrons come from out of town and half of those from out of most people in the Industry that room rentals by Casino patrons Are not nearly enough to carry the As new Bel and Albo will supervise another renovation of the including a Walkway connecting the hotel with fort Garry Martin owner and Developer of the sprawling multiuse development to the South of the will split the Cost of the second floor he gets Revenue from the hotel and its patrons for the use of the fitness Centre and while the hotel gets Access to services that it can now Market to its Fly the Bear to Brandon Winnipeg track us Down your Favourite travel agent Fly the Bear to Brandon Bearskin airlines now offers 48 flights weekly Between Winnipeg and Brandon our daily scheduled service is convenient and youll 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