Holy Crap This sucks. Everyone got an email a few days back about his or her re-org meetings on Monday. These meetings are all like 10 minutes long and we individually meet with our department heads who then either - put hoods on our heads, strip us naked and point at our genitalia *or* - we are told that we still have some sort of job here.
The Options The three choices I have in the order of preference:
Stay where I am
Get Laid off
Get transferred to retarded former-parent company
The Odds I have been mentally figuring out my odds and they look worse and worse as the day goes by - but I have a hard time figuring out if this is just my natural paranoia and anxiety kicking in and affecting the numbers.
On Wednesday, these were my odds: Stay: 33% Laid off: 33% Transfer: 33%
Yesterday, as I was kicking ass on seemingly a dozen different projects I was thinking, "no way are they losing me - I do too much work that no one else knows how to do" and my odds changed:
Stay: 40% Laid off: 20% Transfer: 40%
Today, I met with my immediate boss and the meeting was like a.. um, a real up and downy line. The first minutes he was talking about how the CEO knows my name and mentioned something about me in a board meeting ("dude, he has a vish ass") and my odds were looking good. Then he tells me how the small the "new" company will be, meaning that no matter what, there will be a ton of people gone one way or another. Odds swing to the bad side.
"but, so-and-so really likes you" - Odds look good "we'll all get laid off" - Odds look bad "that one guy wants you dead" - Odds look really bad "you're invaluable" - Whoops! Back up again!
And on and on and on and on and up and down and up and down it went.
Current Odds as off 3pm Friday Stay: 20% Laid off: 20% Transfer: 60%
My meeting is Monday morning. I'll post updates then. This weekend... I have no idea how I will handle it. I can feel the stress related heartburn and imaginary ulcers already forming. I generally don't feel well.
