The End Is Near!
The coming week will be my last week where I am currently employed. Earlier, I announced that my job, along with about 300 others, was being eliminated. Since then, the staff has dwindled down to around less than 200. Some have moved on. Some freaked out and have been sacked.
The commission/incentive dynamic has been gone this past month. Whatever behaviors we choose to use this month will not translate into the commission pay-out next month as usual. The only people hanging on now fall into three groups:
1) Those protecting their eligibility for the severance package payout by not getting a premature termination and,
2) Those who are just doing a good job because it is (and has always has been) the right thing to do, and...
3) A combination of the above.
Personally, it has been stressful but I am also have a blast!
The management and support staff has been visibly reeling from the stress over load that comes with this transition. It's brining out the best and the worst in people. Of course, this situation is not creating the good & bad in people, only bringing out what was always there. Still there are those that just are bearing an unusual weight. For those good people (which are the vast majority), it's hard to see them go through it.
Right now it's like walking around in the bowels of a gutted ship. What remains becomes a stark counterpoint to what was but also a startling harbinger of what is to come.
But in a style true to my employer, they have doing everything to keep peoples spirits up. For example, last week they had a fruit and yogurt bar and yesterday they had a caterer bring in an ice cream sundae bar complete with nuts, hot caramel and fudge, bananas and sprinkles and whipped cream.
In many ways, I'm gonna miss this place!
The commission/incentive dynamic has been gone this past month. Whatever behaviors we choose to use this month will not translate into the commission pay-out next month as usual. The only people hanging on now fall into three groups:
1) Those protecting their eligibility for the severance package payout by not getting a premature termination and,
2) Those who are just doing a good job because it is (and has always has been) the right thing to do, and...
3) A combination of the above.
Personally, it has been stressful but I am also have a blast!
The management and support staff has been visibly reeling from the stress over load that comes with this transition. It's brining out the best and the worst in people. Of course, this situation is not creating the good & bad in people, only bringing out what was always there. Still there are those that just are bearing an unusual weight. For those good people (which are the vast majority), it's hard to see them go through it.
Right now it's like walking around in the bowels of a gutted ship. What remains becomes a stark counterpoint to what was but also a startling harbinger of what is to come.
But in a style true to my employer, they have doing everything to keep peoples spirits up. For example, last week they had a fruit and yogurt bar and yesterday they had a caterer bring in an ice cream sundae bar complete with nuts, hot caramel and fudge, bananas and sprinkles and whipped cream.
In many ways, I'm gonna miss this place!
As the REM song goes:
It's the End of the World As We Know It...and I Feel Fine!
posted by Cool Water William @ 1:37 PM
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