Oh Captain, My Captain
Corporations are like “banana republics”, every few months there is a coup and the nature of the universe changes. My department has recently been decapitated. The manager immediately above me has been sent down to the minors and we are all awaiting the replacement player.
…Will the purges continue?…
Walt Whitman writes about a captain who dies just as his ship has reaches the end of a stormy and dangerous voyage, the situataion at Gigantic Concrete is similar. Our department was finally getting ahead of the curve on projects, orders, billing - all the halmarks of corporate success. But prior to brining it home, a trigger is pulled. Hopes, plans, are all now languising in a blood stained pool in the executive office.
What will be the future? Will the purges continue? Will the new guy become a micro management torrent of destruction culminating in the sum of all fears - a new beloved one? Have the “Ides of March” come early?
I think the resume requires some dusting…
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Oh, that’s not good! It’s never a nice thing when a boss goes. I’m sure it’ll be OK, but like you said… a quick dust off won’t do any harm at all, eh?
Management likes to write off its actions as “responding to rapid change in the marketplace,” although I suspect they really have no idea what they’re doing. I hope all works out well for you.
Pep - The “New World Order” is being imposed now. It is becoming a meaner leaner place. Resume is fully dusted.
James - I think you are correct. They are axing the contractors who run the IT order desk. This means that several key projects are about to fall flat as they reorganize to save pennies while bleeding dollars.