Bad News Comes to the Cube Farm
There are few things worse than getting an email at midmorning asking for an "all hands on deck" meeting. As you can imagine this caused a lot of consternation and rumor-mongering come lunch time. Rumors ranged from "we're all getting our pink slips, Friday is our last day," to "they're going to give us all ice cream!" Needless to say the truth lay somewhere in the middle. In fact it appears that our VP will be leaving us next week, we're laying off technicians at the end of March, and there is no future for our facility.
Lucky for me, I am almost out of Faceless Corporation! Although I am only moving sideways into Shaky Co, which consists of a lot of the same people who work with me at Faceless Corporations. More problematically, the leadership is made up of the folks who brought our fortunes to this pass. Of course, that poses another set of problems, but let's not discuss those now.
I was surprised at how disappointed I was to hear that the facility was going to die by the end of the year. I mean I should feel fine, right? After all here I am with another job (shaky though it might be) lined up. Yet part of me has a lot of loyalty to this poorly run facility. I suppose that much like a first girlfriend, there's no getting over your first facility.