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[moominmolly]

Yes, yes, IBM bought my company. So now, I get a week less vacation per year, no salary increase, my stock is going to be sold when the deal goes through (and I suppose I have to pay short-term capital gains for this privilege) and I live in fear that they're going to downgrade us to sketchy support levels or something. They've only announced the upper-management cuts at this point, but how likely is it that we'll be unaffected?

I mean, sure, now I work for a gi-normous company and it cements the security of the company. But I do believe that now, nearly all of the things that caused me to come work here are gone. The one that's left is the bike path (for whenever I can @#$&*^!@% bike again) -- watch them absorb us into some nearby IBM location! rrrrhhh.

I got a fortune cookie on Saturday night that said I'd get a new line of work. Too bad there's no money in leading bike tours or becoming a park ranger.

Grumpiness aside, I'm all glowy today. I feel *great*. People sort of christened the house by hanging out in it yesterday, and despite the stacks and stacks of boxes still in evidence, it felt cozy and livable. Thanks...

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[coraline]

ew! that sucks! :( i'm sorry...

[lcohen]

well congratulations on the house happiness!!

i'm really sorry to hear about the job changes--i've lived through corporate takeovers myself. (fled as quickly as i could since new management was racist, sexist, homophobic....and where did that leave me?) i hope that your day-to-day doesn't change much or that something swell falls into your lap--how's that?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

new management[...]

Oh yeah! That brings me to the other thing I'm terrified of. Currently, I'm not wild about my boss. However, I envision them doing away with a lot of management at all levels, and I just hope to god they don't let go of her and make me work for one of her coworkers. That would be misery, since they are quite frankly miserable people.

(Well, one is much worse than the other. But still.)

gee.

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Does that mean I am even less likely to be hired?
What if I somehow wrangle an EU work permit? Does this selling affect the international divisions as well?

Damnit, I need to not be in this country...

Re: gee.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, I hope not. I'd like to think that IBM would have an *easier* time bringing people overseas. And yes, everything was sold.

I wish I knew more...

Re: gee.

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Geez. And I double checked the "jobs" page. Indeed, only Boulder, Colorado and the Netherlands seem to be hiring. So I go look on Mapquest to see where Boulder is in relation to Colorado Springs. And get massive Javascript errors and crash my browser. So I go looking for a paper atlas, but forget myself in my unheated apartment and return to my nice warm cluster of blankets with some oranges.

Once I pay bills, I plan on visiting the Dutch consulate and asking about work permits. Or I convince srd to move to the Netherlands? Ah well, we will see.

And I'd rather be hired under European standards to get the longer vacation...

Re: gee.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

You definitely want European vacation benefits.

Boulder's pretty close to Denver. It's sort of like Denver's crunchier side, I believe. Pretty darn close to the Rockies.

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

Suck. Sorry... Double-suck that all this comes up just as you're taking possession of the house. The slightest tremor in my job-security is enough to turn me into a total basket case at this point...

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

total basket case

I originally read that as "total blanket case", and that's kind of what I feel like, going home and curling up under the blankets.

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

You should. Go home to your new house and curl up under the blankets with the cat and a book and drinky. Or something. Good therapy for stressful days.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that one.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

yay on the hanging out with folks

fucking suck on the work front.. *hug*