You know the job I love?

Well, the writing is on the wall that it's not going to last more than 6-18 months at best. Nothing official from management, of course, but I'd be stupid to ignore some pretty major warning signs of impending doom. It's becoming crystal clear to me that the only thing keeping my office open is that they need time to get the staffing and support ready at corporate to handle the extra work. They won't eliminate the work that I do, but they'll send it over there and pay less for someone else to do it. If I'm "lucky" they might offer me the chance to work out of the corporate offices, but it would be impossible for me to do that without a substantial raise.

Of course, I saw a perfect job six weeks ago that I didn't apply for because there was some good stuff going on at the time, and I thought I was in okay shape. Turns out the good stuff isn't going to be as good as I was thinking, so I wasted an opportunity.

So now I'm in job hunting mode, which SUCKS. It's bad enough for me in a good economy--I have very particular skills, so there aren't many decent jobs for me to apply for. But in a bad economy it's horrible.

Good luck.

I'm sorry DaWezl. I hope it works out.

I'm sitting here watching someone pack up 37 years of a career at this company. Her coworkers were given the option to move, but they have to make the decision within 1 month.

I'm still that they might call me down today, but it seems to be contained in a slightly different division.

I'm so sorry, DaWezl

That sucks . I hope you you find something else soon before they have a chance to let you go.

Man, that bites. I hope you find something soon!

Things had been relatively positive at work this week. I actually started thinking "Maybe I'm freaking myself out over nothing. There's been threats in the past, but then the pendulum swings the other way, and they ended up expanding our offices."

Then yesterday I overheard a VP talking in the hallway. "Oh yeah, they're moving this department over to corporate." he said. "I volunteered to be involved so that I would know what's going on."

Sigh.