Meanwhile at work, they're getting ready for a big layoff. The department I'm in had these grandiose plans for quadrupling in revenue over the next four years, and instead we're down some thirtysomething mil for the year, so heads are going to roll. One head that's already rolled is the pointy-haired boss of our rival unit, so we Munchkins were singing the ding-dong song--we may not last, but at least we outlasted him. Actually, things look relatively safe where I sit: our unit brings in way more than it's share of the revenue, with way fewer people than our counterparts in the larger organization. Being smallish and off to the periphery of things can be a nervous-making place when the empire-builders are trumpeting about centralization, standardization, consolidation and so on, but when the board brings in their hatchet man to "clean things up" having the best ROI counts for something, or so we hope. We've had to let our contractors go, but so far that's the extent of our damage and my boss (whom I actually trust, at least where this kind of thing goes) has said that while there aren't any guarantees in life, we don't have to worry about this shakeup.
Posted by joshua at July 25, 2003 11:39 PM