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trysdynYesterday I was stirred awake at 4:30am by a noise or something. While I was settling back into bed I decided to peek at my phone. I had a message from my CEO explaining in very curt and sterile form letter terms that my company has been bought out and there was a mandatory attendance all hands meeting at start of business. Not the best way to wake up after ~4 hours of sleep.
My partner and I were both awake so we drove into the office and just had "our day" early, then sat down for this meeting. Here's where the details have to be hazy but the net of it is yes, my company is being acquired by a larger firm. They were very careful to give absolutely no useful information at this point, as one can expect. What I gleaned from it, though, is that in about 30 days I will probably be layed off.
Everyone involved is playing their cards close to their chest. Why let people know they'll be let go in a month? They'll lame duck it. However given that I tend to be the generalist on the team with not as much under my wing that's mission critical, I expect I'm one of the least important people in my group. So yeah, I'm working on the assumption that either mid-November, or end of year, I'll be axed.
One bright side to this: due to a combination of factors, I'll be "okay" financially if it happens. The down side? I like this job. I'm actually completely 100% out about who I am there, which is something I can't say for sure I'll ever be able to do again. It's kind of a scary thing that after years of not having to live a double life, I'll probably have to go back to that to get in somewhere else. I've been extremely lucky.
To double that "I like this job" thing, most people in speedrunning scenes know me as the person who has an amazingly flexible schedule and can be involved in events whenever. I do night shifts for marathons, can fill in runs at events in the middle of the night or dawn, I'm always around. This is entirely because of the flexibility of my job and I'm not certain I can go back to a standard 9-5 now; especially with my sleep disorder in play.
I mean yeah, that's all whining. Having to go back to "A normal job" is a pretty good problem to have. It's hitting me kind of hard right now though. Who knows though, maybe they'll keep the whole team. I don't have a ton of hope for this being a permanent arrangement as it's been for the past years though.
My partner and I were both awake so we drove into the office and just had "our day" early, then sat down for this meeting. Here's where the details have to be hazy but the net of it is yes, my company is being acquired by a larger firm. They were very careful to give absolutely no useful information at this point, as one can expect. What I gleaned from it, though, is that in about 30 days I will probably be layed off.
Everyone involved is playing their cards close to their chest. Why let people know they'll be let go in a month? They'll lame duck it. However given that I tend to be the generalist on the team with not as much under my wing that's mission critical, I expect I'm one of the least important people in my group. So yeah, I'm working on the assumption that either mid-November, or end of year, I'll be axed.
One bright side to this: due to a combination of factors, I'll be "okay" financially if it happens. The down side? I like this job. I'm actually completely 100% out about who I am there, which is something I can't say for sure I'll ever be able to do again. It's kind of a scary thing that after years of not having to live a double life, I'll probably have to go back to that to get in somewhere else. I've been extremely lucky.
To double that "I like this job" thing, most people in speedrunning scenes know me as the person who has an amazingly flexible schedule and can be involved in events whenever. I do night shifts for marathons, can fill in runs at events in the middle of the night or dawn, I'm always around. This is entirely because of the flexibility of my job and I'm not certain I can go back to a standard 9-5 now; especially with my sleep disorder in play.
I mean yeah, that's all whining. Having to go back to "A normal job" is a pretty good problem to have. It's hitting me kind of hard right now though. Who knows though, maybe they'll keep the whole team. I don't have a ton of hope for this being a permanent arrangement as it's been for the past years though.
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Date: 14 Oct 2017 23:12 (UTC)Sorry about your job, it sounds like you at least enjoyed what you were doing. Hopefully you can find something similarly decent soon...