Byte 2.0
07-14-2005, 07:43 PM
Today I walked in and a close friend pulled me off to the side to let me know that our supervisor was no longer our supervisor. In fact that he may no longer be with the company.
The only thing I could think of was this is the man that I would every couple of weeks have conversations with about planning for the future and he would tell me how good the company has been to him for the past 10 years. How he has been taking advantages of the 401k and other company programs and how his retirement plan was to looking like he might hit the one million mark.
In fact I was strongly thinking about taking similar steps, knowing I currently make much less then him but never the less based on conversations with him I did start my retirement plans.
Anyways so we hear he is no longer over us as a supervisor and may be leaving the company, but no one is giving any reasons. Based on knowing him for the past 9 months, I knew he would not have done anything to hurt his position at the company.
Later we finally get the news, from him in an email, that he is the victim of the budget Ax.
As many of you know, I work for a company that gets outsourced IT work from other companies. These are divided up lets say in contracts. The job I do is on one contract and he was the sup over it.
It seems that the contract after only 9 months is on the edge of costing more to maintain that it is bringing in. So in order to make it more profitable, they are cutting him.
OK, now that you have some of the information, here is the way i see it.
When the contract was negotiated, they underbid too much. Not my sups fault as he was not part of that process.
Seems to me, if we lived in a fair world, the people that made the agreements too low in the first place should be the first cut in a budget savings, since they made this mistake in the first place.
Since he was cut, leaves the rest of us wondering how much trouble the contract we are on is in. We have several temps, which started the same day as many of us full time. The temps work the same hours, just are not getting the same benefits.(it sucks as we all came over at the same time, many of us from the last job together at another company all together.)
We know it was not performance based as we had been hitting all of our service level agreements for the contract.
Kind of makes us wonder if anyone else is up to be cut. As from what I can see, we are on the edge of maintaining the service levels, as if we are a person short one day, we can notice it.
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The only thing I could think of was this is the man that I would every couple of weeks have conversations with about planning for the future and he would tell me how good the company has been to him for the past 10 years. How he has been taking advantages of the 401k and other company programs and how his retirement plan was to looking like he might hit the one million mark.
In fact I was strongly thinking about taking similar steps, knowing I currently make much less then him but never the less based on conversations with him I did start my retirement plans.
Anyways so we hear he is no longer over us as a supervisor and may be leaving the company, but no one is giving any reasons. Based on knowing him for the past 9 months, I knew he would not have done anything to hurt his position at the company.
Later we finally get the news, from him in an email, that he is the victim of the budget Ax.
As many of you know, I work for a company that gets outsourced IT work from other companies. These are divided up lets say in contracts. The job I do is on one contract and he was the sup over it.
It seems that the contract after only 9 months is on the edge of costing more to maintain that it is bringing in. So in order to make it more profitable, they are cutting him.
OK, now that you have some of the information, here is the way i see it.
When the contract was negotiated, they underbid too much. Not my sups fault as he was not part of that process.
Seems to me, if we lived in a fair world, the people that made the agreements too low in the first place should be the first cut in a budget savings, since they made this mistake in the first place.
Since he was cut, leaves the rest of us wondering how much trouble the contract we are on is in. We have several temps, which started the same day as many of us full time. The temps work the same hours, just are not getting the same benefits.(it sucks as we all came over at the same time, many of us from the last job together at another company all together.)
We know it was not performance based as we had been hitting all of our service level agreements for the contract.
Kind of makes us wonder if anyone else is up to be cut. As from what I can see, we are on the edge of maintaining the service levels, as if we are a person short one day, we can notice it.
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