Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Redundancy Redux
Well after two years of less than blissful employment with M***** I************, after a meeting this morning telling us how were going to make loads of money this year due to really clever Reinsurance purchases this year (the clever bit being not bothering and praying no hurricanes hit land), after an afternoon discussing how this meant another 15% on our bonuses this year and how this is good, I got given the bullet.
Shock doesn’t do my feelings justice. Anger and the wish for a painful death on those who have brought this on me does. The woman who made me redundant is the world’s worst manager. She spoke to me twice in two years. Once to give me the job, the other to take it back. In the meantime all she did was send emails moaning about chit chat in the office and how others were trying to work and how unbelievable it was that it wasn’t even about work, about time keeping and an hour only for lunch, about clear desk policy and too much paper around, all whilst having no idea about how the work we actually did needed to be done. So actually I’m left with one more feeling: Relief. At the busiest time of the year I no longer have to go and work my plumbs off for a woman, and indeed a company, for whom I have no respect. My colleagues have been dropped right in the brown sticky stuff and I wish them all well in meeting their targets, but if they are missed, I do hope they all know in which direction they should be looking.
I’m going to enjoy my gardening leave for a month and then let’s see what comes along next shall we? I could get used to sitting here, eating choccy biscuits and watching countdown, but who knows? This is where it all becomes interesting again……….
Shock doesn’t do my feelings justice. Anger and the wish for a painful death on those who have brought this on me does. The woman who made me redundant is the world’s worst manager. She spoke to me twice in two years. Once to give me the job, the other to take it back. In the meantime all she did was send emails moaning about chit chat in the office and how others were trying to work and how unbelievable it was that it wasn’t even about work, about time keeping and an hour only for lunch, about clear desk policy and too much paper around, all whilst having no idea about how the work we actually did needed to be done. So actually I’m left with one more feeling: Relief. At the busiest time of the year I no longer have to go and work my plumbs off for a woman, and indeed a company, for whom I have no respect. My colleagues have been dropped right in the brown sticky stuff and I wish them all well in meeting their targets, but if they are missed, I do hope they all know in which direction they should be looking.
I’m going to enjoy my gardening leave for a month and then let’s see what comes along next shall we? I could get used to sitting here, eating choccy biscuits and watching countdown, but who knows? This is where it all becomes interesting again……….
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