it's coming
Feb. 26th, 2004 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireI am quietly freaking out at my desk. My pride keeps me from asking to leave early, so I'll just skip lunch and go home as soon as my eight hours are over.
We had a meeting at 6pm with the head of our division. In brief, night shift as it stands will be phased out over the next few months. They're going to start closing the office at midnight, and then 10pm. Everyone's schedule will be redone, all groups and management will be switched around, etc. There will be overlapping groups of people at work, though how they will arrange that with the number of desks on the floor and the number of employees is beyond me.
It's thrown everyone in the office into a panic.
While it could eventually be a good thing for me and Alan, in terms of working a more normal schedule, it's too soon to know. It's clearly a bad thing for a lot of people here who work night shift because of children or school or other jobs. One of my coworkers is so royally screwed by this that there are no words. Others are looking at hundreds of dollars they don't have going to childcare. Anyone who can't fit into this new arrangment will have to go.
I held my tongue and only asked if that meant another reshuffling of accountabilities for everyone. Our jobs will change significantly. I didn't ask how much they are paying the India office.
Fuck.
I was making an effort to combat my recent moodiness, to deal with my stress more calmly, to be a little more laid back about life. Almost had it within my grasp. Right now I can feel my blood pressure rising.
The ice cream machine on the second floor is broken. All the ice cream treats are melting.
I am so freaked out.
We had a meeting at 6pm with the head of our division. In brief, night shift as it stands will be phased out over the next few months. They're going to start closing the office at midnight, and then 10pm. Everyone's schedule will be redone, all groups and management will be switched around, etc. There will be overlapping groups of people at work, though how they will arrange that with the number of desks on the floor and the number of employees is beyond me.
It's thrown everyone in the office into a panic.
While it could eventually be a good thing for me and Alan, in terms of working a more normal schedule, it's too soon to know. It's clearly a bad thing for a lot of people here who work night shift because of children or school or other jobs. One of my coworkers is so royally screwed by this that there are no words. Others are looking at hundreds of dollars they don't have going to childcare. Anyone who can't fit into this new arrangment will have to go.
I held my tongue and only asked if that meant another reshuffling of accountabilities for everyone. Our jobs will change significantly. I didn't ask how much they are paying the India office.
Fuck.
I was making an effort to combat my recent moodiness, to deal with my stress more calmly, to be a little more laid back about life. Almost had it within my grasp. Right now I can feel my blood pressure rising.
The ice cream machine on the second floor is broken. All the ice cream treats are melting.
I am so freaked out.
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Date: 2004-02-26 06:53 pm (UTC)