Fly like a butterfly, sting like a - OW!!

Well, I've complained about my job in the past. The company's just not been in good shape and every project I work on, I pray something will come down the pipe by the time I'm finished because otherwise I wouldn't have anything to work on. Lately we've been getting hit with a sudden barrage of customers leaving, some not paying their bills, and others even signing Purchase Orders before reneg'ing on them weeks later and they stop returning phone calls. Projects incessantly have been cancelled outright or pushed back indefinitely.

So today my boss gets an email from the Jersey office with an outline of a "reorganization" within the company. They're letting go their only tech in the Jersey office, and ceasing all new product development - be it new products or upgrades to existing software. Guess where that leaves me, the programmer? :P Yup, Dave is once again looking for a job.

It sucks, but I can't say it surprises me. My boss said this morning was the first he knew about this in the email, and that he and the two bosses in jersey are all co-owners of the company so he is constantly outvoted 2 to 1 on any decisions regarding the direction of the company. Even he, who was the other developer within the company, isn't doing any more code and will be working on a "sales" aspect, getting dealers to sell the company's products. The former full-time sales guy is going back to half sales, half tech support, to help the only fulltime tech guy in the CT office. And now it will be up to them two to go to Jersey/Pennsylvania/New York to handle all the on-site support that the Jersey tech used to handle.

Things have looked bleak for quite some time, with people never getting their expense checks when they should, and one of the Jersey bosses constantly going bipolar and threatening to shut down the entire Connecticut office. It hasn't been exactly a healthy work environment between him and, not really his fault, my boss when he blows up because he's been taking so much shit from the Jersey bosses, I'm sure riding him about numerous things about the CT office.

So in a way, it's kind of liberating to know I don't work there anymore. It sucks, yeah, but Jen and I have a good chunk of change in the bank and truth be told I've been looking for new work anyway. I just hoped I could leave on my own terms instead of having this happen. But que sera sera, nothing I can do about that now. I will say I feel much more tranquil than when I lost my job a little over a year ago just after the wedding, when Jen didnt even have a job yet after moving to CT. But the job hunt is never "fun".

I'm remaining optimistic and trust things will work out for the best. And on this note... it's about time I got to hitting those jobsearch sites.