..but for how long? ugh. I just hate rumours. I really do. I’ve begun to learn how to dismiss certain ones because what good would they do anyway? but…. they still bother me from time to time.
well, is it business as usual? I wonder what something like this does to people’s work ethic. Do you work harder cuz you’re afraid that you might be targetted next? or do you say “fucket” and slack off every day from now on cuz it just don’t matter what you do anyway. It’s all about money and “restructuring” and you’re gonna get axed if you’re gonna get axed no matter what you do. You’re damned if you don’t and you damed if you do so… what does it matter?
I guess I’ll just be happy that I have a paycheck next month and worry about getting layed off if it does actually happen.
It’s hard not to be so grim about things. People say sysops won’t be touched cuz they can’t get rid of us. we run the servers afterall. And they’d have to fire the new guy before they got rid of anybody else but I dunno really if that’s so true. 
they could just decide to cut us by half in one sweep. I’m having EDS flashbacks. Same thing happened when i was working for them. wave after wave after wave after wave of layoffs and I just didn’t care anymore. I stopped working. I’d go there and just sit and do whatever the hell I wanted and chatted with people all day and I left work and hour early every day… a couple months later I was in the next wave of layoffs. but you know what? I was sooo happy that day I was axed. so so so so happy. my two unemployed months after that were the happiest times of my life. I had a lot of fun. I had 3 months severence and had 2 paychecks that third month. It was like christmas for me.
But if it did happen this time it wouldn’t be that way again. I’ve got too many new responsibilities now. a mortgage, a baby. Too many more bills to pay. It’s not like I could just sell everything and go crash at my grandmothers if it came down to it. Man, yesterday I said I wasn’t scared. But I guess I was lying to myself cuz it turns out I really am scared!
crap!
oh, i almost forgot.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE () !! I’m sure you’re happy you got out when you did. :/
Thanks! I got layed off about 3 months before I was ready for it. I had been planning on leaving that June, but got laid off in February. Turns out I made a little more with the severance package than I would have gotten working til June. I miss the people and the challenges that Verio offered, but not the corporate culture.
The problem is in sitting there not doing anything new, not being challenged, and watching the company decay around you. I’m going through a similar problem now at S&H Greenpoints. They’ve made a few changes, but too late, and didn’t go far enough. Hopefully I hear back from my headhunter today about a job interview.
Reply to stymie_flyou’re welcome! sounds like things worked out well for you then. that round of layoffs was a huge surprise to me it was like 100 plus people, right?
back then, we’d all have to go way over to 4950 to fit in a huge room for town halls. now we all fit in the atrium which is where we had yesterday’s.
good luck with the interviews!
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