I started an awesome one-year temp position back in the middle of February. Great pay, interesting work, fantastic insurance, not my primary field but still pretty nice.
A couple weeks back, some of our other temps started getting poached, then some reasonably crucial permanent employees started saying they'd accepted offers in other teams. I got worried.
Sure enough, I just got a message today saying that I wouldn't be needed after the 27th of this month. It's not performance based, that much is clear from the way we're shuffling staff out of the team, it's just that this group is either closing its doors or shrinking heavily. I guess "one year" is a pretty short amount of time these days, but it's sadly common for temp agencies to inflate the length of your term as an incentive for you to take the job.
...We moved into our apartment two months ago with the expectation that I'd keep making this kind of money, and I've been planning to make use of this insurance once I had a little more saved (got a fair number of outstanding medical bills and untreated conditions). A big reason for the move is so I could live close to where I worked, but that might be out the window now. As it is, I don't even have a month's worth of expenses saved up, yay apartment deposits. Also, raises tend to stick, once you've started making a good amount you tend to keep making that amount...but maybe three months isn't long enough for that phenomenon to be true.
This job was a big raise. If I go back down to what I was making before, I don't know if I can keep supporting my friend whose rent I've been paying while she waits for social security to go through. Certainly all our luxuries are going out the window, and the fiancee is going to be very sad that she'll have to give up her personal trainer (expensive first-world luxury? yeah. massive improvement in her health? yeah).