This picture has nothing to do with my very strange and unsettling day. It just makes me happy to look at it. It's sort of an antidote.
12 people got laid off at work today. I was not one of them. I'm still not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. Right now I'm leaning toward bad. It was not a total surprise, although I didn't know it would be that many. A few I am very happy to see gone. They made working there very difficult. Others I liked, some I didn't really know very well. But even so, it was weird. What it means for those of us who are left is that we will have a lot more work to do. A lot. And of course there's no more money in it for us. Financial problems are the reason all those people were let go.
Instead of feeling optimistic and psyched about the challenge, I am feeling a like a huge boulder is about to be dropped on me. Also, at the staff meeting after the deed was done, we were told that the board is considering merging our museum with another cultural institution in the city. When that happens, it probably means we'll be let go. That won't happen for many months, if it does. But I think it will. So I'm thinking I should probably start looking for another job now. Because even if we do a spectacular job at bringing in new funding, we're still going to probably lose our jobs. I could be wrong, but I think it's definitely time to start looking. I really don't feel like job hunting right now.
2 comments:
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It does sound like a good idea to start looking, if you're seeing the handwriting on the wall. I don't like looking for a job either, though.
Yah sounds like there is definately something up. Im not sure how things are there but if you stay to the "end", do they at least offer a severance package? If they do, then I would stay for as long as you can and grab at it. When they make the notification that youmay lose your job, put the time in then looking for another one. Best of luck for you.
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