So you had a bad day
04-11-2013, 03:42 AM
#121
^
Sorry you didn't get to leave on your own time frame, but hope all works out.
Sorry you didn't get to leave on your own time frame, but hope all works out.
04-11-2013, 04:30 AM
#122
Registered User
It'll be fine.
I'm happy not to have to "reinvent myself" in a new role in the new organization; they're radically changing the way the IT department works and we expect it to be rather unsatisfactory for some number of months while they get the kinks out of the new structure. I would have hated to work through the problems then quit about the time things settled down. With severance pay and accrued vacation time, I'm covered for the length of time I would have worked if left to my own devices.
I'm happy not to have to "reinvent myself" in a new role in the new organization; they're radically changing the way the IT department works and we expect it to be rather unsatisfactory for some number of months while they get the kinks out of the new structure. I would have hated to work through the problems then quit about the time things settled down. With severance pay and accrued vacation time, I'm covered for the length of time I would have worked if left to my own devices.
04-11-2013, 04:59 AM
#123
It'll be fine.
I'm happy not to have to "reinvent myself" in a new role in the new organization; they're radically changing the way the IT department works and we expect it to be rather unsatisfactory for some number of months while they get the kinks out of the new structure. I would have hated to work through the problems then quit about the time things settled down. With severance pay and accrued vacation time, I'm covered for the length of time I would have worked if left to my own devices.
I'm happy not to have to "reinvent myself" in a new role in the new organization; they're radically changing the way the IT department works and we expect it to be rather unsatisfactory for some number of months while they get the kinks out of the new structure. I would have hated to work through the problems then quit about the time things settled down. With severance pay and accrued vacation time, I'm covered for the length of time I would have worked if left to my own devices.
04-11-2013, 06:06 PM
#126
Thread Starter
EF'en taxes!!!!
04-12-2013, 12:16 AM
#128
Reminds me...my accountant hasn't called. 
Coming down to the wire. He probably had the same hard tax year that Rob had. He's now doing mine and my mother's. We file electronically, so not the urgency to get them back in time to mail. 
Coming down to the wire. He probably had the same hard tax year that Rob had. He's now doing mine and my mother's. We file electronically, so not the urgency to get them back in time to mail.
04-12-2013, 12:54 AM
#129
Hmmm 
have to remind the +1 to mail the check this weekend.
We (i.e. she who must be obeyed) had ours done 2 months ago but no sense in rushing to payment.
have to remind the +1 to mail the check this weekend. We (i.e. she who must be obeyed) had ours done 2 months ago but no sense in rushing to payment.
04-12-2013, 01:16 AM
#130
Interesting day Tuesday. Our IT department is undergoing its 4th downsizing/rightsizing/orgasmsizing/whatever in 10 years. That's right: they let people go in 2003, 2005, 2010, and now again in 2013. In fact, the jackasses told several employees in January that their job would end Feb 1; they were free to apply for other openings in the company. Two of my friends went through that process and landed new jobs in different parts of the IT organization. Only to lose those jobs 2 months later when the main reorg kicked in. But hey, I guess that small staff reduction in January was worth it; they saved enough money to feel good about putting those people through a second jeopardy two months later.
They called me into a conference room with my manager and a rep from HR to inform me that I'm being severed. I've been very dissatisfied with my raises the last few years, and made it known. I expected to be let go; after May 3rd, no more of corporate America's bullshit for me. I've had to put up with their bullshit for 40 years (just 14 at the current company, but it's the same bullshit wherever you work, and management typically believe their own bullshit) and the end is just weeks away. I don't have to spend several months learning a new system/new way of doing IT only to come in one day and tell them I no longer want to work for what they're paying me, and they immediately get a higher average score on their internal employee satisfaction survey.
They called me into a conference room with my manager and a rep from HR to inform me that I'm being severed. I've been very dissatisfied with my raises the last few years, and made it known. I expected to be let go; after May 3rd, no more of corporate America's bullshit for me. I've had to put up with their bullshit for 40 years (just 14 at the current company, but it's the same bullshit wherever you work, and management typically believe their own bullshit) and the end is just weeks away. I don't have to spend several months learning a new system/new way of doing IT only to come in one day and tell them I no longer want to work for what they're paying me, and they immediately get a higher average score on their internal employee satisfaction survey.