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I was just standing in the lab office, admiring the back of Cute QA
Girl's head, when she turned round and stared at me.
And that's when I realised... Cute QA Girl doesn't work here any more. O_O
What can I say? I guess I'm slowly losing my mind. Still, I'm in good
company. We just had a "presentation" here that basically consisted of
management cheerfully telling us that [more] compulsary redundancies are
on the way in the next few days. This time they're going to interview
everybody in the building and decide who to get rid of.
Of course, now the rumours are circulating that they already *know*
exactly who they want to get rid of, and the interviews are just for
show. And everybody has their own pet theory about who's gonna get it.
FUD. Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. To quote a phrase, "we haz it".
My personal favourit suggestion is that we get rid of Fathead and get a
manager who actually *has* a clue. This, presumably, is an element of
the set of suggestions which will _not_ be taken seriously by corporate
management. I hypothesize that this set also has a nonempty intersection
with the set of suggestions involving having a competent sales force.
So, what about me? Is my job going to me axed? Well, let's examine the
evidence:
- There's only one of me. If they get rid of me, they lose the entire UK
IT function.
- HQ IT seems to think they can do everything remotely anyway, so maybe
they don't "need" me any more.
- I'm *ludicrasly* cheap. If they're trying to save money, getting rid
of me doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. More logical to get rid of
the senior project directors or something.
- About the only thing you can't do to a computer remotely is plug it in
and switch it on. There are any number of other staff here who can
probably handle that. (Indeed, one in particular seems to get lumbered
with IT-related stuff that I don't do. She'll probably get most of my
job if they decide I'm not necessary. Poor sod...)
So there you have it: we have conclusively proved.... something.
Oh god - I just heard Fathead on the phone to Jess. She's at the airport
right now, about to leave the country for Turkey for her holiday. And
Fathead is ringing her to say "oh, by the way, we're axing people's jobs
while you're away, and we're going to interview everybody but you won't
be here. But you have a nice holiday, OK?" Isn't that nice of him?
[I did like the comment in the meeting. "I know some of your collegues
aren't here right now. Please don't tell them about any of this; we'll
handle it." Nice...]
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