walking out of my cube, then heading to the elevator and the garage turned to be have some emotions, a little tearful. I may only come here one more time, since I still have some personal items need to be picked up, and sure there should be some paper works from the HR. I have no reason to start the car in the morning, I have nothing have to complete for a particular day.... The feeling is not good at all.
I was updating the feature description Thursday afternoon while my co-work came to me, "stop working, you do not need to work anymore!", he lead me out of my cube, I have no idea what he was talking about, there more people on the hall way, it turn out that any more did not have meeting by then are on the laid off list, and no body tell me to go to any meeting at all. In the past, you would be scared if you receive an email that tell you that it is mandatory that you need attend the meeting. This time it is just another way around. Most of the people in this project are are on let go list including the majority of the managers, some of the manager get upsite/puzzled right away, why so and so is remaining?It is not very clear what is the criteria for people to stay, this is always the situation, people has the right to pick who is remaining has the perspective for the forwarding business and sure can play some personal favor. My manager came out of his office, he is on the list too, and told everybody to print out the vacation you still have, well I guess he just trying to be nice, the company is dead, there will be no severance package at all, only your remaining vacation will be paid, I would not thing they will cut your vacation in intentional way. Just last week, he was pushing me on the schedule, and I absolutely think it did not make any sense at all.
I called LL about that I am being laid off, he said that;s OK, you already very lucky hold a job much longer than a lot of people there.
We all knew this was coming, but did not know when, and did not know it came this sudden. It was just Monday that the manager said the funding for this department is covered until the end of the year.
We had GIS on Friday morning, the VP from the company is the speaker, a lot of people asked question and really upset, because this decision seems pure political, it turn out the company cut majority people here and transfer the project to people in Ottawa where people know nothing about this work...., Greg, our director wanted to make the ending speech, but before he could say anything, his tears coming down and his voice is muffled already, he only managed to say, thanks for everything, and the VP asked him to send his message out in other way. I was holding my emotions OK before that, but could not hold the tears after that, like all the other ladies. He had been done a great job to build the product and the team and trying very hard to protect people working for him, we all stand up and plaud for him...
There was an happy hour event on Thursday and an unhappy hour event on Friday, I did not go either of them, there are plenty talk already, I could not drink any alcohol and some time hard to participate in a conversation in very loud environment.
It is hard to accept this I had work the same company for more than 14 years, I do not have to think every morning where I go and what I do, for everything had planned for me to do, I just go there and do it,
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