You're Fired... Okay No You're Not in I Need A New Job

I’m going to try and do my best to include everything I can remember, but all of this started a little over two months ago (I think).

I ran into Ranch whilst out and about with little miss for a walk. He proceeded to tell me that either himself, Darkman, or Buzz were going to call me soon. He started by saying that they were going to do that because no one had seen me for awhile. Just pure coincidence really since I go out all the time, I just hadn’t run into any of them. After talking for a bit about random things he mentioned that the reason someone was going to contact me is about big BIG changes coming to the office.

I asked if I should be worried, which is when he told me that essentially I’m the only one who doesn’t need to be worried. The long and short of it is that the office has gone so down the rabbit hole since I’ve been gone, that they are preparing to let everybody go, and contract outside offices to take over almost everything that we do. The only thing they would need to keep doing locally would be the transit operation, which means that someone will have to be in our office Monday - Friday 7-3.

We discussed briefly about how I would not want to do 5 days a week, I still want just 4. Besides my preference, it isn’t feasible to have just one person work. What happens when I want time off? If I get sick? (right… haha). If Chloe gets sick? It was very much a work in progress, they were just curious if I was on board to being their #1. Definitely food for thought. And of course I was positively sworn to secrecy on this matter.

So I took that information and did the me thing: felt bad for everybody losing their jobs; even though the fact that they are losing their jobs is 97% their fault. I’d say about 3% for the invisible manager who didn’t do anything to help any matter. It took a week or so (yes… that long) for me to relax about people losing their jobs and realize that honestly this is a good thing for me. It will make my job about a million times less stressful, and I won’t have to deal with the idiots that are working there. So since I can’t stop being me, the next thing I did was have a dream about how Buzz would ruin everything about not going through with this change.

I talked to Darkman about it, who confirmed that everything would in fact happen. At the time they were just waiting to hear back from an outsourced company about costs etc. I have wanted so bad to talk about this, because it’s HUGE… it really could be a game changer for me. I started to really anticipate it because it meant going back to work wouldn’t be so bad. I started dwelling less and less on everybody getting laid off, after all it was their fault, and becoming happier about my return to work. Until the end of June hit…

When June 30th hit I got the anxious feeling of “ermehgerd… just one month left of maternity leave. much sadness. ALL THE SADNESS”. Then it occurred to me that I hadn’t heard of any updates from work at all, and NOBODY was getting back to my calls/texts/emails. I just recently (as in a couple days ago) was able to get in touch with Darkman, and we had a long conversation about this issue. So long I went over my minutes… oops.

Basically I’m right. Why am I always right? Buzz is holding back on going through with the changes. Apparently he is going to wait until the work load in the office is at a total saturation point. What does that mean to someone who doesn’t actually work in the office? Well honestly he just doesn’t work at all… but honestly, he has no idea what it is like up there. How is it that he gets to decide what is the breaking point? That is such an unfair move to anybody. What’s worse is that going back to work for me means going into an absolute chaotic mess.

Picture a company literally on the brink of folding… that kind of mess.

So just as I got excited about the prospect of things finally looking up around there… it was a giant let down. As usual.
So essentially everybody was fired, and then un-fired, and they have no idea. I wish Ranch had not told me as well. If I had no idea, I couldn’t possibly be this disappointed.