Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Firing: another round

Friday both barrels were unloaded once more on our fucked company. The people who've been here longest have grown quite blasé and seem to take it in their stride and there is a danger that given some more time in this environment I might do the same.
Fortunately, I'm still angry. It remains the case that people have lost their jobs because the sales team is poorly managed. Those who so desperately continue to clutch to the purse strings that have unravelled from the venture capitalists with so much stake in the company, are those who persistently muster sufficient semblance of competency that they're not on their way out just this time...
The COO appears to know what he's doing, though he has some difficulty enforcing anything in particular. He's offered me an opportunity to be his right-hand man, but what he doesn't seem to have grasped is that few have faith in the company. Who can trust it, who can like working for it, when the environment is so poor? Anyone who can leave will; those who remain will be the talentless, the unimaginative too set in their ways to leave, or those who can't move for personal reasons, and these will be the most resentful.
I've been offered another job at 35% more pay in a more dynamic environment, but it would mean spending most of the week away from my wife. Isn't that enough to make anyone despise their job?

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