This is my first attempt at a blog and I thought I’d write it about something I’m currently going through, redundancy.
It’s the first time for me but many others I work with been through it and to be fair they’re all pretty upbeat about it, fondly remembering how they where dropped like a sack of sh*t from what they thought where loving employers who cared only for their employees and not the bottom line. To be fair many of the companies I’m referring to in my statement really did try to keep these people but with the world being the way it is currently something had to give and unfortunately they had to let these people go.
At first when I got called into the office and told my fate I was upset, hurt and in disbelief, I’d worked for this company for 7 years. 7 Years of trying to better myself and make a career and now that was coming to an abrupt end the 11th April 2011 would be my last day in the office, it was strange to see it on paper I always thought I’d be the one to be handing my manager my notice not the other way round.
By some stroke of luck I was given a reprieve, “Hey how would you like to work on a project till November?” I thought this is it my chance to try and stay so I signed that contract quicker than a Usain Bolt in an Olympic final. This was great I got to say a bit longer I could apply for other roles. This is it, it’s what I wanted, wasn’t it? Well it was but now I’m not so sure.
It’s now the end of August and I haven’t applied for any roles inside my current company, I’ve come to the realisation that for me the 7 years I’ve spent here I’ve not moved from my starting grade and only ever made side way steps. Not really the career I was hoping for but I think it was never about the jobs I did but the people I met along the way, some became close friends and others that fell but the way side.
Did I make the right choice to say till November? Yes because it gave me the time to grieve about my situation, accept the things I could not change and decide ultimately that this is the right time for me to go. Where I’m going? What I’m going to do? Are questions I need to find answers to but whatever happens at least it feels right and I‘ll leave with fond memories of how I kind of chose to leave with a little helpful push from the bottom line.
If you have any questions feel free to pop them in the comments.
Suburban Cat
