THER TEEKER JEEBS!
Today I am blogging about you! Some of you. Maybe not you but you, definately.
WTF!
So it has been known to us for many months that the company I work for is up for sale. The California operation has already been sold. We have just been waiting for the last few months to find out who will be buying the company. Not that it really mattered. 6 out of 7 potential buyers have no need for the staff in this office and are interested only in the facility and our customers. The 1 buyer who really would have needed us was the one with the least money, power, and time. Therefore it was already a given that we were all going to get laid off. Last Friday we got the official word that the frontrunner, and also our main competitor, has purchased us and after the franchise agreements go through we are going to get laid off. We weren't actually told we would be laid off. We were told that the new employer would be keeping key people in key departments (field techs and those who operate the equipment). It didn't really matter because even if they wanted to keep us they pay thier tech and cust. serv. reps half of what we make. None of this was any kind of surprise. If there was anyone who didn't know they were getting laid off FOR SURE before last Friday they must not have ever stopped to think about it. I also can not understand that anyone is surprised that it is our main competitor that purchased us. They can spend millions of dollars over the next few years to chase us by upgrading thier network to still only have 50% of the market share; all the while subsidizing the operation by charging higher prices in the surrounding markets. On the other hand they could purchase us, have a ready made fiber/coax hybrid network, avoid the upgrade, have 100% of the market share and begin to level off prices in surrounding areas while bringing prices in this market up to the level they are charging elsewhere. The cost/benefit analysis comes up HUGE on the side of them doing everything they can make sure this sale goes through ASAP. None of that, really, is what is annoying me. What IS annoying me is that everyone is talking about it with wide eyes and conspiratorial whisperings as if it's something new. WAKE UP people! You are going to be LAID OFF! FIRED! NO JOBSKIE! It's all talked out! It's tired! It's over! Some of us are just riding this out for the 2 month vacation sponsored by our severence checks. Some of us aren't even waiting for that. People are already leaving! Maureen is gone. Denise is putting in her two weeks today (I don't know that. You don't know that. You didn't read that here). If you haven't already updated your resume you are living with your head in the sand. When someone breaks into your house and you pretend to be aspleep because you are scared you can lay there and watch them open the jewelry box and start taking jewelry out. You could reasonable assume at that point that he is stealing your jewelry. Or you could follow the Astound model, apparently, and wait for him to actually jump out the window with your jewely in his pocket before you decide. Why make a value judgement. Why not wait until he sells it to the pawn shop before you really make a final call. I mean maybe he was just admiring it, right? He'll bring it back. He breaks into houses and admires jewelry. Why the fuck not.
WTF!
So it has been known to us for many months that the company I work for is up for sale. The California operation has already been sold. We have just been waiting for the last few months to find out who will be buying the company. Not that it really mattered. 6 out of 7 potential buyers have no need for the staff in this office and are interested only in the facility and our customers. The 1 buyer who really would have needed us was the one with the least money, power, and time. Therefore it was already a given that we were all going to get laid off. Last Friday we got the official word that the frontrunner, and also our main competitor, has purchased us and after the franchise agreements go through we are going to get laid off. We weren't actually told we would be laid off. We were told that the new employer would be keeping key people in key departments (field techs and those who operate the equipment). It didn't really matter because even if they wanted to keep us they pay thier tech and cust. serv. reps half of what we make. None of this was any kind of surprise. If there was anyone who didn't know they were getting laid off FOR SURE before last Friday they must not have ever stopped to think about it. I also can not understand that anyone is surprised that it is our main competitor that purchased us. They can spend millions of dollars over the next few years to chase us by upgrading thier network to still only have 50% of the market share; all the while subsidizing the operation by charging higher prices in the surrounding markets. On the other hand they could purchase us, have a ready made fiber/coax hybrid network, avoid the upgrade, have 100% of the market share and begin to level off prices in surrounding areas while bringing prices in this market up to the level they are charging elsewhere. The cost/benefit analysis comes up HUGE on the side of them doing everything they can make sure this sale goes through ASAP. None of that, really, is what is annoying me. What IS annoying me is that everyone is talking about it with wide eyes and conspiratorial whisperings as if it's something new. WAKE UP people! You are going to be LAID OFF! FIRED! NO JOBSKIE! It's all talked out! It's tired! It's over! Some of us are just riding this out for the 2 month vacation sponsored by our severence checks. Some of us aren't even waiting for that. People are already leaving! Maureen is gone. Denise is putting in her two weeks today (I don't know that. You don't know that. You didn't read that here). If you haven't already updated your resume you are living with your head in the sand. When someone breaks into your house and you pretend to be aspleep because you are scared you can lay there and watch them open the jewelry box and start taking jewelry out. You could reasonable assume at that point that he is stealing your jewelry. Or you could follow the Astound model, apparently, and wait for him to actually jump out the window with your jewely in his pocket before you decide. Why make a value judgement. Why not wait until he sells it to the pawn shop before you really make a final call. I mean maybe he was just admiring it, right? He'll bring it back. He breaks into houses and admires jewelry. Why the fuck not.
posted by Unknown at 1:06 PM
20 Comments:
whackly, the only one I saw expressing surprise was you(besides being thrilled at the chance to piss on our open wounds). You were just shocked, shocked! that humans have access to emotions other than outraged, self-righteous indignation, which is perfect for your blog, but a wee bit tiresome in conversation, sweetie. (You are right, pal, I shouldn't have come over here today)
Some actual emotions on display: pissed off, tired, angry, sad...so on. Normal range for people who've known since last spring they're probably going to lose their jobs; now we know to whom and when.
Scecina, not Time Warner, but close.
Yeah, what is the ideal reaction? Or the respectable or allowed reaction? I think our partying is all right. But you're too cool for school, what with the video games all scheduled in advance.
DE TEEK ER JEEEBS!!!!!!!!
Everyone back on the pile.
something dirty is just pissed cause she thinks that i'm talking about her in my blog and has no idea that ever single person i ran into yesterday wanted to "talk about it"... and btw, something dirty, the proper reaction is the one everyone is having... only they should have had it six months ago... crapnasty pretty much said the same thing i said only in paraphrase... why don't you get all pissy with her? your video game insult only works if the person you are insulting really cares that you think that playing video games is lame and that binge drinking can be rationalized away by calling it partying... have fun with that one... the fact that you are getting so upset about my reaction just shows you to be a hypocrite... what reaction could I have that would be acceptable for you? maybe you should check your own self-righteous indignation meter... i think you might have spilled some crow on it... LOL
hey whackly, is something dirty hot, because i love me some hot techie chicks, and if shes really dirty as well, woo hoo. I can only think of one thing that could make it better, involving a nine iron, some jello, a bull, live or stuffed preferably stuffed, and a care bear....
what an odd question... there is no way for me to answer that, kidding or not, without getting sued... LOL... she's single... and she has good taste in sweepstakes prize fashion accessories...
aren't you married to a chick that was in playboy? that was the rumor... what would she say if she knew you were on some minnesotans website trying to pick up the lad's eligible bachelorette coworkers?
I'm not pissy, for reals. Video games aren't so lame either, I just don't get it. Scecina, thanks, but I'm sure I'm not hot. Whackly, stop making fun of my damn purse!
Hey, what counts as a binge anyway? Can anyone tell me that?
Do you start sober and keep drinking until you are drunk? That's binge drinking.
No, I start sober, keep drinking til I'm drunk, but why stop there folks? Anyway, no big sad "parties" of despair to escape my trivial existance this weekend, but Disney trivia at CN's.
yes im married, my wife probably likes girls more than i do, especially hot techie girls, and a binge is when you start sober, get drunk, do some coke to sober up, get drunk again, bump again, drunk again, bump, bump, bump, then smoke some dope to pass out, all over a 3-4 day period, not that i have ever done that, just heard stories : }
that's not a binge... that's a raging bender
yes that would be when you feel so good that you could be a rockstar, take on the world, and so bad that you feel an alien is about to crawl out of your head or it will explode, or so ive been told
so are you a dirty girl? inquiring minds want to know?
Nah.
whackly said::aren't you married to a chick that was in playboy? that was the rumor...
remember it was scecina who started that rumor
if only it were not true my friend, if only it were not true, but let me clarify, my wife was in an issue of playboys model search, no im not going to tell you which one, but she was in it, not in a pictorial, and not a month girl, and yes shes hot and quit the B!t(H, oh god, did i say that out loud, well you have to take your pluses with your minuses i guess
Hey guess who was drunk at 10:57
Dick Cheney?
WTF. a is for Amtrak.
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