Once for the candle to light you to bed.....

[ravencallscrows]

and once for the chopper, to chop off your head.

I no longer need to worry about my asshole boss. My job now officially belongs to a contractor. Never mind that no one else in my former group has even read the specs for the areas i owned, or that the automation i have in place has a learning cycle of several months to be able to do anything with it, and that the sweeping changes i had in progress for it are completely undocumented. Nope. Someone else can figure out my mess of VB code, and can care about a product like Office (which is really a series of independent applications which happen to use some common libraries) in languages like Arabic and Hindi.

I'll be at coffee tomorrow night and the Mercury afterwards, if anyone feels obligated to commiserate.

I'm both concerned as to where income is going to be coming from, and relieved that now my job is someone else's problem.

Comments

[inanna.livejournal.com]

Well, i try to think of the positives..... At least we have money in savings. By doing it before the end of the year his "use it or lose it" vacation (which he didn't put in for cuz his boss said to do so would risk his job) won't be lost... he should get paid for all 100+ hours of vacation, not 75 or so. Also, because his "position was eliminated" (as opposed to being let go for "poor performance" - which i am certain is his bosses perspective, although there isn't any objective evidence of this) he gets unemployment right away, as opposed to having to wait 12 weeks or so. See... look at all the positives.

i do find it interesting that a week after he talks to HR about problems with his boss (and while the HR person he was working with - who stated they were a poor fit and was working with wingedelf to get a position elsewhere - is out on vacation) this happens. Of course the two aren't related......