I have no words… February 28, 2006
I got into the office this morning, popped round to see my boss. “Today’s your last day.” says he. “Is it?” says I.
He said he thought he’d done what he had to do for HR (I don’t entirely believe him). He obviously hadn’t.
Tomorrow is now going to be the day he ‘officially’ informs me of my redundancy and I will then exit 8 days later. So my last official day at the monolith will be 9th March.
Fortunately I don’t think he’s silly enough to expect me to be in the office much between now & then.
I’m completely lost for words to describe my feelings about this. I’m not annoyed, but I’m not exactly thrilled by it either. I won’t be relieved until I have the date on paper.
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
I have no words either. Seems they’re not so keen to get rid of everyone.
While it is annoying that today is not the end I think it can only help having a specific end date which is quite likely (and tomorrow even more likely)
i know i said it before but oh dear lord…
My fingers are crossed for your letter.
It must feel totally weird. It’s been really interesting reading about this from your super large company’s point of view, while our’s is a tiny organisation going through a big re-org. The lack of information about the process is probably just as confusing and disruptive to your emotions whether there’s thousands of employees or 50. It turns out our CEO thinks we all know what’s happening. It sounds like the outcome you’re steadily heading towards is one you’re looking forward to so that’s a Very Good Thing.
What with the way a lot of companies seem to be treating employee severance it’s hard to care much about the work you do and extremely difficult to maintain any sense of loyalty to the company. My take on the public service of yesteryear was that it was like a rather boring but benign parent but even this encouraged some half hearted sense of loyalty.