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Months ago, like over the summer, coworker Bob and I were asked to write descriptions of our jobs, what we handle and how often we did different tasks. It was a "defend your job" project.
A few months ago, we started hearing rumblings about the local office being consolidated into the main office in a different state.
A couple of months ago, they got rid of the two people who had 90% of the knowledge in our escalation team.
A few months ago I trained a new person as a "backup" my current position. Supposedly, he's been trained so that he can fill in for Bob or I when one of us is on vacation. Our company has a tendancy to have us train our replacements.
The day after Thanksgiving and yesterday the two people we could most count on for handling physical problems (as opposed to software issues) were let go.
Bob and I are just waiting to see which one of us is fired. Work is to the point that I would rather be let go than be alone without Bob. All of our "help" comes from people who don't know what they're doing (escalation team) or believe on site techs over us even after the on site tech has been proven wrong (physical problems team). I've got plans for next year, and a few weeks of unemployment checks wouldn't be the end of the world.
It's the waiting that's killing us. We've seen the writing on the wall for months and we're ready for it to be over with.
A few months ago, we started hearing rumblings about the local office being consolidated into the main office in a different state.
A couple of months ago, they got rid of the two people who had 90% of the knowledge in our escalation team.
A few months ago I trained a new person as a "backup" my current position. Supposedly, he's been trained so that he can fill in for Bob or I when one of us is on vacation. Our company has a tendancy to have us train our replacements.
The day after Thanksgiving and yesterday the two people we could most count on for handling physical problems (as opposed to software issues) were let go.
Bob and I are just waiting to see which one of us is fired. Work is to the point that I would rather be let go than be alone without Bob. All of our "help" comes from people who don't know what they're doing (escalation team) or believe on site techs over us even after the on site tech has been proven wrong (physical problems team). I've got plans for next year, and a few weeks of unemployment checks wouldn't be the end of the world.
It's the waiting that's killing us. We've seen the writing on the wall for months and we're ready for it to be over with.
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