If it does happen mate, I’m out there the same time. Here’s hoping.....
I'd be right chuff about that possibility.
I've got about a month to figure out a way to save the trip, but it ain't lookin' good at the moment. I go ahead and explain it is a bit here...
Sorry to hear it. The contract ends June 30 unless the Republican Governor and Republican University President agree to care about employees. I'm 2 years away from retirement, less with accrued sick leave
Care?
About employees?
<<shudder>>
May pigs sprout wings.
Two years would still be rough depending on you other options. I've got five years before minimum legal retirement and ten before when I should. May have to take some drastic steps.
prayers for a smooth transition for you. Not a nice position to be in speaking from experience.
And you have had your share of trials to be sure.
Thanks for the thoughts.
OK...
Here's the story (rather than just dancing around it).
Do feel free to ignore this (stupid long) recounting of events.
I'm plenty used to being ignored so you can't hurt me that way.
Now I have a tenancy to be a bit scarce around here near the end of each year and into the beginning of the next. That's partly because of the heavy year-end process required by the employer and partly a function of recurring depression (a condition I highly recommend not acquiring if you have any say in the matter). Anyway, this time round the overlords through another spanner into the works by announcing that they will be selling off the remaining in-country manufacturing operations in the near future. That added bit of joy explains partly why I've been missing quite as long as I have (but again, I digress).
Now, I work for the financial reporting group, and I'm pretty certain that the new masters won't be in need of two complete reporting areas. That said, they are exclusively an importer and while they understand warehousing, they've never tried to run any type of manufacturing operation, so they'd be needing to keep at least a few folks until they get a handle on exactly what they'd gotten themselves into (basically, they've got a hold of the tiger and are currently trying to avoid the teeth).
Given that much information, we decide that the best option for now was to wait and see how things shake out and basically continue living life for the time being. That's why we went ahead and scheduled a trip down to WDW when we came across a crazy good deal on the outing (and also considering that I have enough points on my Dis-Visa to basically pay for the whole thing with spending money to spare).
So then the buyout actually occurs and the sentences are handed down. They do decide to keep a few folks that understand the business, but the fact that I basically supply the bulk of their reporting wasn't seen as particularly necessary so at first I was slated to be cut loose immediately. A rather massive outcry from the rest of the department stemmed that foolishness (for the time being and thanks to them for that). However, I was still relegated to the "transition team" and told that they'd like to be shed of me by mid September. If I agree to stay, however, I will get three months severance and can keep all by benefits in the mean time.
Well, if they don't expect to need me into September, then I ought to be able to go ahead and keep my scheduled trip to Da' World the last week of August, right?
I mean when I got let go about twelve years ago the first thing I did was take the trip to WDW that we'd already paid for (and the second thing I did was get hired back by a different area of the same company as they saw it as an incredible waste of resources). Given that precedent, I figured that luck favored staying with the schedule. Well... That probably ain't gonn'a pan out.
First off, the new owners use a different accounting calendar, so where I was in the clear at first, I'm now looking at a direct conflict with the month-end closing dates. Can't be out of the office during those weeks. I called up Dis-Travel and tried to move the resi, but doing so would cost me all of the discounts and raise the price of the trip by nearly two grand. Crap! Plan-B: if they intend to toss me out by September, then certainly they've already figured out how they'll be doing the reporting functions by then and my services won't be needed to close the August books, Right? Wrong... Well, maybe wrong, but no one can say. They'd like to be shed of me by then, but they're not sure they can pull that off and they may need to keep the "Transitions" folks a bit longer.
Being kept on means more pay checks so that's the option that will win out, Unless I find something else between here and there. Problems are, a new employer likely wouldn't offer me any time off in the first year or so (and likely will offer me far less compensation in general), just walking out on them could cost me any possible severance (and any possible unemployment benefits), and in the end, they could actually require my work for closing but still cut me off a week later. There's just no definitive decision, option's or time-line. Al of which means that I'll most likely be staying put and canceling the trip. Of course, the possibility of being able to hang on just a bit longer will override at least some of the disappointment (and it also won't be the wackiest or most misguided decision I've made in relation to this turn of events either).
You are not forgotten by the rest of this motley crew. You definitely getting the short end from the evil overlords but I don't see a good option in any of it.
