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jayfurrIt's really cold here. 13 below zero.
And my company (GE Healthcare) has layoffs in the offing. A bunch of media sources locally ran little articles saying the layoffs were underway (which was scary, reading it in the local TV station's newsfeed before hearing anything at work), but yesterday absolutely nothing came down from the usual sources at corporate letting us know that with great sorrow, etcetera, etcetera. I asked a couple of people and they said "the rumor mill has TODAY being the big day." Sigh.
People tell me that it would be INSANE to lay me and my team members off given all the revenue-producing irons we have in the fire, but sometimes cold, hard decisions have to be made by people who take the long view. And we're just trainers, after all, right? Once, eight years ago, we were on the chopping block but our department head was able to put some numbers together showing how much we impacted the company and our customers and got the CEO to change his mind (and the CEO met with us and told us that had it not been for that, we'd all have been gone). We're part of a much bigger company now and that approach is unlikely to work if the decision comes down from on high.
Scary times.
And my company (GE Healthcare) has layoffs in the offing. A bunch of media sources locally ran little articles saying the layoffs were underway (which was scary, reading it in the local TV station's newsfeed before hearing anything at work), but yesterday absolutely nothing came down from the usual sources at corporate letting us know that with great sorrow, etcetera, etcetera. I asked a couple of people and they said "the rumor mill has TODAY being the big day." Sigh.
People tell me that it would be INSANE to lay me and my team members off given all the revenue-producing irons we have in the fire, but sometimes cold, hard decisions have to be made by people who take the long view. And we're just trainers, after all, right? Once, eight years ago, we were on the chopping block but our department head was able to put some numbers together showing how much we impacted the company and our customers and got the CEO to change his mind (and the CEO met with us and told us that had it not been for that, we'd all have been gone). We're part of a much bigger company now and that approach is unlikely to work if the decision comes down from on high.
Scary times.
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Date: 2009-01-15 02:30 pm (UTC)Thirteen below?! Jeebus, it's gonna be +13 here Saturday morning and that's bad enough. I still recall the feeling I had one winter in New Jersey at -11 that my mustache was freezing.
*formally, "EDS, an HP company".