Wow, yikes t, but I guess yay still having a job!

Askye glad you were able to get her seen quickly.

I continue to not be able to get on my work VPN for more than about 5 minutes. Very frustrating when I actually DO want to try to get work done!

Poor kitty

My newest coworker was laid off. She was worried she would be when we got the notice about early retirements and cost-cutting, and she just finished moving all her stuff up here from SoCal so I am bummed for her getting her life all disrupted. And bummed for us having to reorganize how we will get everything done. In the meeting they stressed that the work the laid off people were doing is not supposed to just get transferred to the rest of us, it is somehow supposed to shrink or get more efficient or something but I don't see how that's supposed to happen in our case. We hired her because we needed another person! The newest guy in Supply was also let go, so it looks like a certain amount of LIFO going on, but he was technically the only Supply Planner we had, the rest of the group had transferred to other areas (or resigned), so I don't know how that's supposed to work either.

The "interim leadership" at the top is the owner's son (who has been running the factory part of the parent/holding company for a long time) and daughter (who started and has been running one of our newer brands) so it's a major return to being a family run business. I'm not sure whether that's going to be a good thing or not. Probably a mixed bag.

I just got the email that I was not laid off

This is good, but mass layoffs are stressful no matter what.

Getting updates via rumor mill - 3 more people gone from our department, one of them has been with the company 20+ years, all 3 with jobs that I doubt anyone else really knows how to do. So that'll be interesting.

If I'm counting right, that's 8 staff reductions over the last month or so from 22. 36%

The office is going to feel like a ghost town '

I got summoned for county AND federal jury duty in the back half of January, and I DO NOT NEED THIS. We don't have a firm move date yet, but currently we may need to be at the new house on 2/3 for a walkthrough, and I do not wish to add jury duty to the middle of this.

That's uncalled for, summoners

At the same time? Geez. Often they’ll let you postpone once, and then if you happen to have moved by the time the postponement dates come, oh well!

And now I have 3 hours of meetings tomorrow morning, 9am to noon. Always a good time but especially when it's discussions of the current reorg at different levels! Ugh.

Ay, ay, ay, people. You are having stressful times. Do not like this for you, Dana or -t.

Or anyone else, of course. meara with the VPN, askye with the sick kitty. I do not approve. Though I am glad kitty is getting good drugs. Healing ~ma to her.

The guest list for the department meeting confirms that the rumor mill was accurate. So that's something, I suppose.

I'm glad Starbucks isn't on strike right now, I'm gonna need a drive through treat for my commute.