December 07, 2007
No More Filter
I was told to be at the corp office first thing yesterday morning. So.....I got there good and early. The purpose of the meeting was to go over next years forecast. And I'm so very excited about next year.
As I settled in for the meeting, the first words out of my bosses mouth were "the good news is you still HAVE a job".....
WTF?!?!
Well. Seems there has been a corporate restructure. As those bean counters in their ivory tower looked around at territories, seems they saw mine, saw how bad the economy is and how few REAL opportunities there are and said "Huh. We don't need this Tammi. Let her go."
Lucky for me SOMEone likes me. However.....I now have to travel as far north as the Canadian border, take a HUGE paycut and well.....suck it all in.
Now. please know I did not make this easy. For anyone. In fact, when he asked how I was doin' with all this my words were "I couldn't have been more totally f*cked if you had laid me out across the table".
Oh, and as the discussion went on I said somethin' about that pay cut means that he no longer qualifies for the Tammi Filter. He gets exactly what's on my mind....
There is no doubt in anyones mind that I am not pleased with this. BUT....there is also no doubt that I also understand the reasoning behind it. Turns out 58 people lost their jobs** this week. I know I'm damned lucky not to be one of them.
But oh....it hurts so bad that this happened even given all the successes I've had and all that I've pulled together. It's not personal. It's business.
At least that's what I keep telling myself.
**Turns out that was just the NON sales people let go. There has been no announcement on how many of us were let go or put in a different position. Rough estimate is over 100.
Posted by Tammi at December 7, 2007 04:11 AM | TrackBackDamm Tammi. That sucks. The pay cut is not good either, but I guess it is better than no job at all.
Why do folks always do this right before the Holidays. Hang in there.
Posted by: stacy lee at December 7, 2007 06:12 AMI truely do hate bean counters higher up at companies.
They have NO CLUE as to how to run a business.
It was one year ago today that I got laid off from GM because the bean counters said cut your budget. The reason I was hired in the first place was because they had way to much work and to few people.
Posted by: Quality Weenie at December 7, 2007 08:49 AMTime to fire up the old resume machine.
It is always easier to look for a job when you have one.
Just damn. You need to be in contact with a good headhunter.
Grrr... I HATE that they don't appreciate you!
Posted by: pam at December 7, 2007 10:12 AMThat really sucks! Especially this time of year.
Posted by: Contagion at December 7, 2007 12:23 PMWith the bad always comes some good, right?
Posted by: Ogre at December 7, 2007 02:36 PMOh crap... I am so sorry, Tammi. Let me know if I can help in any way - okay?
Posted by: Richmond at December 7, 2007 05:16 PMWhat a thing to go through. Keeping fingers crossed for you.
Posted by: Mrs. Who at December 8, 2007 12:05 AMNow, Tammi, I know you said, I wasn't Welcomed over here. I don't listen very well, Obviously. I still read here. Not every day, because I'm quite busy over at my Blog.
I didn't see a Paypal Donation button around here. Lady, look, there ain't nothing god-damned wrong with setting yourself up with Paypal account for Donations. You've got friends out the wazoo, and then some. You need to swallow your damn pride and ask the Blogging world for some help. There's people here that love the crap outta you and would be more than willing to toss a couple of bucks in the kitty for ya. (I would, but I'm in worse shape than you are...)
I can understand them not wanting to donate to me, I'm an opinionated asshole, who lives with his folks, I've a safety net. You? You're in the damn ocean and in a damn row boat at that.
Now, you can pitch damn hissy and delete this and ignore me, or whatever. or you could show some horse sense, that I know you have, and follow my advice.
Just FWIW, I do apologize for being rough on ya, just from now on, if someone here resembles politics, I shall not read it, just that damn simple. there you go, an Apology, take it or damn leave it.
-Chuck
Posted by: Chuck Adkins at December 8, 2007 01:45 AMOh, Tammi, I'm so sorry.
Posted by: sarahk at December 10, 2007 07:54 PMThey kept you because you're a D*MN fine Sales Rep!!! And don't you forget it! You now have a larger area to shine over and though that may have it's downside, it also has it's upside! Hang in there because when a door closes... a window opens...
Posted by: Lemon Stand at December 12, 2007 06:51 AM