My last post was not supposed to degenerate into a screed railing against the terrible job the government and the financial community have done in taking care of the economy.
It was supposed to be a post for me to reflect on how I feel about what these things have done to people around me.
It was supposed to be a place for me to express the unreasonable amount of sadness I feel about it.
That seems a bit extreme.
But it's not for just one person.
There was another announcement today that results in probably 18-24 other people losing their jobs. I know I'm being rather vague, but I have to. I'm not supposed to spread personnel information... but I figure that if I don't really reveal any details I can still talk about it.
I can't help but put myself into the shoes of these people.
Especially my ex-manager.
And it hurts.
My day was ruined fifteen minutes after I got to work.
But this doesn't make sense.
Nothing bad happened to me. Me and my job are both doing fine.
Yet I feel so sad.
It's as though my sense of empathy is on overdrive.
Damn it.
This recession sucks.
2.24.2009
Changes come
Thanks to the poor state of the economy I got a new manager at work today.
The position that my manager filled until yesterday no longer exists. Now my group has been rolled in under a different manager.
I'm not happy.
It's not that I don't like the change. I rather like the person that is now my manager. And the change even makes sense from a business perspective
The problem is that I feel so bad for my previous manager. This is a terrible time to need to find a job. And even though I didn't know him well, he really seemed like a good guy, and I hate to see things like this happen to people and know that there was nothing they could do about it. By all accounts he was doing a fine job. But the poor economy.... THE GREED OF PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY WEALTHY!!!! has robbed him of his job.
I'm really just angry.
The government that should have been watching out for us all divested itself of responsibility and failed us all. It let the greedy and the wealthy dictate the rules and now we all get to suffer.
It really is maddening.
The position that my manager filled until yesterday no longer exists. Now my group has been rolled in under a different manager.
I'm not happy.
It's not that I don't like the change. I rather like the person that is now my manager. And the change even makes sense from a business perspective
The problem is that I feel so bad for my previous manager. This is a terrible time to need to find a job. And even though I didn't know him well, he really seemed like a good guy, and I hate to see things like this happen to people and know that there was nothing they could do about it. By all accounts he was doing a fine job. But the poor economy.... THE GREED OF PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY WEALTHY!!!! has robbed him of his job.
I'm really just angry.
The government that should have been watching out for us all divested itself of responsibility and failed us all. It let the greedy and the wealthy dictate the rules and now we all get to suffer.
It really is maddening.
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