Ok, sorry for the rant but this is the second time that I "survive" through a firing spree and is starting to get in my nerves.
I work in software development and the first time, some guys from Accounting messed up and that gave excuse for some bosses to get the area boss out of his job and ofc they fired all his people. After all that drama and saying goodbye to people that made their career in that company (good loyal people that deserved better), the new boss brought his own people... only to be all of them fired after a few months including the new boss! fuck!
Good thing, we didn't get to know that people.... well, a year later I was fired with a group of around 120 people (it was kind of funny because the company was doing pretty good but I guess they saw they could work with less people just by exploiting the ones left that were too scared of losing their jobs). I saw it coming but it still hit me.
After that, I thought I learnt my lesson so I developed a cynicism shield that could protect me from similar situations (I was already an insensitive jerk so it wasn't much of a difference). I passed through a lot of jobs, always quitting when a new chance for better salary appeared or when the company look like the Titanic. I even took some months off to learn to use the Unity engine (my dream is to be an indie game developer).
Now, I'm in another IT company. Is pretty mediocre but is also one of the best places I've known and this was going good but suddenly our main customer stop making business with us (is a huge state mining company so apparently the government change made our contacts obsolete) and our boss obviously never heard the tale of the locust and the ant so he didn't keep money for bad times.... well, long story short: I took one sick day and the next day people tell me they fired half the company.
I consider myself pretty cold but everything has a limit, the people fired were good and loyal people that worked their asses off, they were treated as family by the bosses but a single rainy day and they are discarded like used comdons.
So here I am, I wasn't fired because I still have work to do and I have to pass through the same shit again: saying goodbye to all these people, trying to make light of a hopeless situation. They won't starve but they deserved better and my cynicism shield is starting to break. I'm here sitting in front of my monitor without any energy to keep working, I'm seriously considering quitting (maybe dedicate a few months to work on my game) but I know I'll only get to a similar job where all the same shit will happen again.
I need to break the cycle, I need to be my own boss... the irony is that if I succeed I could see myself having to fire people at some point. Good loyal people that deserved better...
Sorry for the rant.
I work in software development and the first time, some guys from Accounting messed up and that gave excuse for some bosses to get the area boss out of his job and ofc they fired all his people. After all that drama and saying goodbye to people that made their career in that company (good loyal people that deserved better), the new boss brought his own people... only to be all of them fired after a few months including the new boss! fuck!
Good thing, we didn't get to know that people.... well, a year later I was fired with a group of around 120 people (it was kind of funny because the company was doing pretty good but I guess they saw they could work with less people just by exploiting the ones left that were too scared of losing their jobs). I saw it coming but it still hit me.
After that, I thought I learnt my lesson so I developed a cynicism shield that could protect me from similar situations (I was already an insensitive jerk so it wasn't much of a difference). I passed through a lot of jobs, always quitting when a new chance for better salary appeared or when the company look like the Titanic. I even took some months off to learn to use the Unity engine (my dream is to be an indie game developer).
Now, I'm in another IT company. Is pretty mediocre but is also one of the best places I've known and this was going good but suddenly our main customer stop making business with us (is a huge state mining company so apparently the government change made our contacts obsolete) and our boss obviously never heard the tale of the locust and the ant so he didn't keep money for bad times.... well, long story short: I took one sick day and the next day people tell me they fired half the company.
I consider myself pretty cold but everything has a limit, the people fired were good and loyal people that worked their asses off, they were treated as family by the bosses but a single rainy day and they are discarded like used comdons.
So here I am, I wasn't fired because I still have work to do and I have to pass through the same shit again: saying goodbye to all these people, trying to make light of a hopeless situation. They won't starve but they deserved better and my cynicism shield is starting to break. I'm here sitting in front of my monitor without any energy to keep working, I'm seriously considering quitting (maybe dedicate a few months to work on my game) but I know I'll only get to a similar job where all the same shit will happen again.
I need to break the cycle, I need to be my own boss... the irony is that if I succeed I could see myself having to fire people at some point. Good loyal people that deserved better...
Sorry for the rant.
