So. It’s been over a year since I left my old job under voluntary circumstances. I have been contracting in the same position for the same company since then.
Last Friday, my colleagues were all given “30 day notice of threat” letters and were told that they faced redundancy. A team of 14 - down by 4 people. Not including myself and the other contractor who, it seems, are automatically ear-marked for the chop.
So, out of a team of 14 - it is actually 6 that are going.
As with my previous employer, it seems that these cuts are at the expense of the customer, the contract we have with the customer and the promises made when the company took us over 7 months ago.
As a contractor, you have to be ready - and expect - to turn up one day and be told that your job is going, has gone, never existed or has been given to the less technical department numpty who happens to be a permanent member of staff. So I guess I will have to play it cool and accept my fate, get on the “find-me-a-job” websites and get my CV up to scratch.
Shame though. I quite liked it here.
It seems that political, bureaucratic nonsense and no-brainer senior management decisions have started to follow me around.
On the plus side, it has meant that I have bit the bullet and have bought two new domains today and have started setting up two new blogs that have been rattling around my brain for a few weeks. Time for action! Get some extra cash rolling in.
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.