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Foxtoberfest!
11 years ago
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Alrighty, with the coming Foxtober month ahead... I am registered for Unthrocon in Salt Lake City over Halloween weekend. I have a room, which while not stupidly expensive, it would be nice to split room costs on that. I can drag someone along from Cali in the car mostly likely too since I'm driving out to the con. Now there's a catch to this too. I'm leaving Wednesday or Tuesday to drive out there. On the way there I (we?) stop at Miller Autosports park outside of SLC for a complimentary dinner and introduction. The next day I'm back at the track for the STOctaneAcademy track day stuff. I am allowed to bring one guest for free and that guest gets to watch the main parts of things, get free lunch and at the end of the day drive karts with everyone else. All for freeeeee, as long as I drag you along anyway.... So lemmee know if anyone else is up for a visit to Salt Lake City over Halloween. :D
MFF, plane tickets are purchased (Holy hell a direct flight from the west coast for under $250!) but I've had no luck finding a room to split or getting one of my own in the main hotel. Any leads would be appreciated before we get to crunch time.
Now ~ Real fun. Last week we got a "What do you think of your supervisor and company" survey sort of email. I thought it strange but nothing alarming. Monday was quiet... but at the end of the day our CEO mailed out a video. This is unusual, so this time I didn't just blow it off. Watching it.... wasn't fun. It explains losses by the company and works out a plan to correct things. The first point they harped on was cutting overhead. This involved the phrase "reducing our global headcount" several times. So basically it's a fancy way of announcing layoffs. I'm not worried about this as I'm too critical to my office and the company at this point. There are several others that would be in their sights before me and the company is encouraging the older staff to take retirement since some have been hanging on probably past their time. The second part was that they're putting a limit/reduction in how much stock you can sell off. The company stock is internal which means all the money for it comes out of company capital, so a run on the stock sucks the cash out of the company basically. (Nevermind our old CEO left this year and took like a $15million dollar payout on it before the stock dropped drastically in price...) They also sent out an email asking us to, as a company, run off about 20% of the paid time off that's stored up. Again this pays out of the company coffers effectively, so I think they're trying to avoid a run on time off and or big payouts when they start layoffs. It's.... not good signs at all, any of it.... for now I'll just stick with the blinders and ride things out because I'm protected and still have project work I can bill to.
MFF, plane tickets are purchased (Holy hell a direct flight from the west coast for under $250!) but I've had no luck finding a room to split or getting one of my own in the main hotel. Any leads would be appreciated before we get to crunch time.
Now ~ Real fun. Last week we got a "What do you think of your supervisor and company" survey sort of email. I thought it strange but nothing alarming. Monday was quiet... but at the end of the day our CEO mailed out a video. This is unusual, so this time I didn't just blow it off. Watching it.... wasn't fun. It explains losses by the company and works out a plan to correct things. The first point they harped on was cutting overhead. This involved the phrase "reducing our global headcount" several times. So basically it's a fancy way of announcing layoffs. I'm not worried about this as I'm too critical to my office and the company at this point. There are several others that would be in their sights before me and the company is encouraging the older staff to take retirement since some have been hanging on probably past their time. The second part was that they're putting a limit/reduction in how much stock you can sell off. The company stock is internal which means all the money for it comes out of company capital, so a run on the stock sucks the cash out of the company basically. (Nevermind our old CEO left this year and took like a $15million dollar payout on it before the stock dropped drastically in price...) They also sent out an email asking us to, as a company, run off about 20% of the paid time off that's stored up. Again this pays out of the company coffers effectively, so I think they're trying to avoid a run on time off and or big payouts when they start layoffs. It's.... not good signs at all, any of it.... for now I'll just stick with the blinders and ride things out because I'm protected and still have project work I can bill to.
