It was to talk about “team restructuring”

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    We got reorganized last month. Scrapped almost all the projects we were working on and fired 1/4 of the workforce (mostly sales and support staff). On the plus side, I’m still employed and I’ve been able to use the last month to catch up on personal shit while the higher ups figure out what they want to spend money on next. On the down side, the new project I’m assigned to sucks and is never going to be successful. At least I don’t think it will.

    But, as long as the paychecks keep rolling in…

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      As someone who has been there before, time to get that CV up to date, get any linkedin stuff sorted, and use that free time to start browsing the jobs market so that you’re ready.

      I once didn’t take that advice and promptly got dumped on my backside without the last month’s pay because the whole thing had folded (I got paid a few months later through the liquidators, but that didn’t help get my rent paid when I needed it!)

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        First thing I did was update my resume. I “job hopped” a bit over the last few years, out of necessity, and I’ve only been at this job for a year. I’ll probably try to stick it out for a while. It’s also a brand new tech stack to me so as far as I’m concerned I’m getting paid to pad my resume.

        Edit: also I work for an unprofitable division of a much larger profitable company so not as much risk of the entire place folding.

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      They won’t for much longer. Assigning you to a crappy project may just be a way to get you to quit. If you don’t, you may be in the next round of layoffs.

      You may not want to work somewhere that has no direction anyway.