Friday, November 12, 2004

RIF watch, Day 2

So I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing at this point.

I just updated the bug report with the stuff I've been investigating over the last few days, but it looks like that project is being cancelled too. Just going through the motions... Due diligence, I guess.

Nobody's really doing any work right now. A few people that got back from the remote site meeting are filling out expense reports, but that's about it.

People have been gathering in the hallways all day. There are managers that are openly making jokes about how bad things are looking for everybody. We're already exchanging emails and other contact info.

I saw three people I didn't recognize being escorted to the CTO's office. Someone in my cube mentions that there was a whole line of heads prairie-dogging as they walked by. Did I mention that everyone's a bit on edge?

A vendor FAE who's been supporting one of the designs on-site for the last several months was collecting email addresses as he left. (For lunch? For the day? For good?)

And apparently I missed out on a big group lunch/drinking outing yesterday. Oh well.

Will they just get it over with, fer cryin' out loud?!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does RIF stand for?

-thefoo

tallasiandude said...

Reduction In Force. i.e. a layoff.