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[denny]

I've just been made redundant.

Some paperwork bullshit to occur over the next week or two before it's official, but the bomb's been dropped and in a company this small, the paperwork is just a formality.

Time to tidy up the CV I guess.


Edit:

People keep asking 'why?' on IRC/IM/etc...

The company failed to get as much funding as they'd hoped for in their current round of financing talks. In combination with a very noticeable drop in the amount of work they have coming in, it was belt-tightening time. They decided that my position was the most expensive thing that they can limp along without until the workload picks up again. I'm told I'll get a good reference etc.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

Yeah, when you have a good idea of just what the company's dire financial position is, it's hard to hold it against them.

(I used to have a job like this - company was on the skids, one of my duties was preparing a daily "here's just how fucked we are today" spreadsheet for the financial controller. It clearly showed that anyone who could be fired should be fired, e.g. me. When the axe fell, I accepted it quite happily, 'cos I would have fired me ... And then they got me a very nice job with someone else a year later.)

Stay on good terms, have a nice bye bye meal, depart in good order not leaving a mess, wish them well and preserve all possible karma :-)

[skx.livejournal.com]

Pretty much agreed.

It is bad short term definitely, but it isn't necessarily too bad past that.