Laugh? We laughed...
Sometimes you just have to laugh.
Last week it was the last day for one of my work colleagues. A very talented developer, who will be a loss to the department. Our Head of HR (or, more accurately, our sole HR person) happened to be down in our office for the day. As she was there, she invited him in for a quick chat, to find out why he was leaving.
One of the reasons he gave was job security. At this he received a very indignant look as she proclaimed there was no problem with job security. "What do you mean?" she said. "There's plenty of job security!"
Fifteen minutes later he discovered the reason she was down in our office was to make somebody redundant. Somebody who has been with the company 18 years, and now is being made redundant 6 months into the new ownership.
Oh, the irony.
Our office move is under way now, the lease has been signed and everything. So in a week or two my commute will double. Naturally I am not being compensated for this in any way, as I may have mentioned before. I've also found out there's going to be no server room, meaning a couple of noisy racks (with no dedicated air-con to keep them cool) and many other non-rack-mountable servers in the main, open-plan office. That sounds great!
Last week it was the last day for one of my work colleagues. A very talented developer, who will be a loss to the department. Our Head of HR (or, more accurately, our sole HR person) happened to be down in our office for the day. As she was there, she invited him in for a quick chat, to find out why he was leaving.
One of the reasons he gave was job security. At this he received a very indignant look as she proclaimed there was no problem with job security. "What do you mean?" she said. "There's plenty of job security!"
Fifteen minutes later he discovered the reason she was down in our office was to make somebody redundant. Somebody who has been with the company 18 years, and now is being made redundant 6 months into the new ownership.
Oh, the irony.
Our office move is under way now, the lease has been signed and everything. So in a week or two my commute will double. Naturally I am not being compensated for this in any way, as I may have mentioned before. I've also found out there's going to be no server room, meaning a couple of noisy racks (with no dedicated air-con to keep them cool) and many other non-rack-mountable servers in the main, open-plan office. That sounds great!
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