It's amazing, shocking even, how quickly things can change. Just two days after my last post my entire project was put on ice. 400 out of 540 people working there were laid off, myself included. At 8am that morning we were called into a meeting with all the non-manual folks on the project. The client, with whom my company had just signed a contract with two weeks before, informed us that the project would be slowing down and de-staffing some. The also apologized a lot.
After that meeting we were told that there would be separate meetings for each company to go over the specifics for each group of folks. In that waiting time I kept telling myself that it couldn't possibly be my company, we just signed a contract! Apparently that was the denial phase. When noon rolled around and our bosses told us that our company staffing would go from 83 to 2 by September I must have known in some part of my brain that I was not going to be one of those 2 people, but it still didn't really sink in.
We were told that the funding for our project was getting moved to another similar project that is much farther along. Theoretically when that project finishes, the funding (and people) will be moved back to this project. But that's not until the end of 2015, if it happens at all. I felt kind of numb through this whole thing, like it was happening to somebody else. We were also told that management would do their best to find a place for everybody who wanted one at the other project.
I started thinking, well the other project is only a couple hour drive, so I could probably still live here on weekends... Or at least come back for weekend LEGO League meetings. You see, I wasn't worried about myself, my company will find some place for me, I'm more worried about the FLL kids. If I'm not there, the team doesn't get the money from my company. Also, I'm the only one with any "experience" with FLL... *sigh* Why do these things happen just when I'm figuring out how to deal with my life?!
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