December 07, 2005
One of THOOSE Days

A company I will call borbis is lame and needs to get the right kind of support for a company of their size. It would be something like a billionaire buying a used geo metro then getting angry when he found out it would take a couple weeks to rebuild engine. And he wanted it fixed on the spot. I is not a perfect analogy but you get the idea.

I've been feeling not so good about work while at work recently. The company is doing new things that I don't feel are good for the company or workers. The company thinks they are good for the company and the customer too I'm sure. The changes started with the charging for soda and are currently at layoffs which is something the company had previously managed to not do. Reason for lay offs is supposedly that the company didn't meet certain goals so it had to cut 2%. Removing people from the pay roll is easy but won't really fix the problem. Sure cutting a redundant possition here and there, the 1 manager of the other manager(not plural) who manages some supervisors, again you get the idea. But hackng 2% to make for goal not met seems a bit off to me. Why are there people in training when people's positon in the department they are being trained for are being let go? I only knew one person who got canned I knew of a couple others but never spoke to them. Also lets not forget the 5 or so VPs that have left the company in the last 12 months. I my self have not heard anything offical about the 2% but thats what I heard and these are mearly my observations. Something is wrong.

The good news is someone else considers pictures of cars to be art and is selling them. Yay.

Posted by Ben at December 07, 2005 06:36 PM
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dude, they are already hiring another group for our team and for the support section too. I don't know what all that layoff stuff was about. I think it was just an excuse to fire people that were not liked. At least that's how it looked.

No WRT news? That cannot be good. I am very scared and saddened

Posted by: Nathan on December 7, 2005 09:42 PM

oh, you already went over that. I knew 3 of the popel who got canned pretty well and I knew another 2 well enough to say hi in the morning.

Posted by: Nathan on December 7, 2005 09:43 PM

You guys reading this are the ones at this company who have brains on your shoulders. Instead of apathy, look to get the heck out, and into a new spot. Content Dev perhaps... I Am thinking that Ben has a higher level of support written for him, and/or even L2 if he bides his time.

I've been sold down river before, and it sucks... Don't get comfortable!

Posted by: Overseerq on December 8, 2005 08:22 PM
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