Almost 4 weeks have passed now since the announcement that everyone else in my work group was being given the heave-ho. I still have a sour stomach, I’m still cranky. I was hoping that everything would have settled down by now, but that is not to be. I am really tired of feeling this way. I’m really tired, period.

A couple of my co-workers have already found other jobs. A couple have had some good interviews. A couple have decided to leave the company. One wants to retire, but the stock market convinced him otherwise. He’s applied for a job where he will be making a third of what he makes now. He has been with this company for 30 years, and this is the thanks he gets. I’ve been here 20 years; needless to say I’m not looking forward to the next ten with great anticipation.

I’ve been sadly watching as my colleagues train their replacements. Yep, they actually want us to train some of the people who will taking over a few of our job fucntions. (The other job functions will be transferred to India.) I am laughing, the stuff we do here is pretty complex and even very smart people will have a steep learning curve. No way these newbies will be as good as the departing people before the year is out. They will be lucky if they are as good before NEXT year is out. Besides, all the process problems that caused us to be less than wildly successful are still in place. These poor newbies are on a Bataan-like death march, and they don’t even know it.

Oh, and management has decreed that the latest release will not be affected by the fact that almost the entire test department had been shown the door. WTF? Good luck with THAT. You think you get support calls now...

In a spectacular display of hubris, the management here has tried to delay the transfer of one of laid–off engineers for several months. Basically, they told him they would be laying him off, but they have not officially done it yet, so they expected him to hang around for another couple of months. He was the first to find another job, but this does not fit with their schedule expectations. Again, WTF?

I actually have a interview on Tuesday. Even though I am not being laid-off, I’ve decided that there are other divisions that are better managed then this shithole, so I’m going to where the grass is greener; with all possible speed. I’m sure this will upset the management, based on how upset they are currently with the guy who already found another job. Do they really expect me to hang around and wait for my turn in the unemployment line? Oh, hell no.