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By ObviousTroll (Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 01:42:51 PM EST) (all tags)
Long live $NEWCOMPANY!

Oh, and Porkchop's death may have been exaggerated.


I know I suck at reading and commenting on people's diaries; I can only say "sorry" - I'm going nuts, I'm so busy.

To recap:

  1. Default state: we're already busy almost every night of the week, with girl scouts, kenpo, astronomy club, bizarre memory corruption issues at work, etc..
  2. The partners who owned the Kenpo/Karate studio my family goes to split up - one bought the other out.
  3. Remaining partner (owner) now needs someone to help run the storefront. He and I convince SWHTL that this would be a perfect part time job for her.
  4. The kid who actually taught the classes, and put the hurt on me, quit. Not unexpected, because we all knew it wasn't how he wanted to spend his time, but puts more pressure on the owner and on SWHTL who is now working more hours to handle the storefront side of things.
  5. I juggle my work schedule so that I can be home and cook dinner while SWHTL is working.
  6. Owner asks me to teach some of the kids classes on a couple of days that he absolutely won't be there. Did I mention I don't actually have a black belt?
  7. First week of new highly-flexible work schedule, they sold my company. And made us wait till 6:30 PM to explain it to us.
I'm writing this from a big hotel conference room where $NEWCOMPANY is explaining how our lives shall now all resemble a pastoral paradise, with sun-shiny benefits, bigger budgets and additional hiring.

The employees are all looking at them like they want to believe it's all true, but...

Oh, and while $COMPANY was a chronically underfunded startup, $NEWCOMPANY is a big publicly traded firm. And the buy out price means that with all the money I get from my options in $COMPANY I can probably afford dinner for 2, if we skip the appetizers and don't order wine. And we're picking up a metric shitload of work, as my software group will be the ones who have to "unify" two families of similar, yet different, device drivers.

At least I won't have to worry about paychecks bouncing. Apparently $NEWCOMPANY's biggest problem is spending all the money they make.

In Porkchop news, I had assumed that when I quit as Treasurer/Scribe/Gopher/Key Grip/Best Boy from the team that the team would want me completely gone out of sheer cussedness. On the contrary, they want reassurances that I'll remain in the team. And, in a jaw-dropper, one of the other officers told me that I'd given him the incentive to do the same thing; he's resigning as Permanent-President/Leader/El Generalissimo - but that leaves a big open question. If I'm not doing the donkey work and he's not providing supervision, who are they going to get to do these things?

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The real name of the Troll's new company
- Microsoft 0%
- Apple 0%
- Intel 0%
- Motorola 8%
- GM 0%
- Enron 0%
- AMD 0%
- Ziff Davis 16%
- McData 8%
- McDonalds 0%
- Cisco 8%
- Halliburton 8%
- Denny's IM Security and Privacy Protection Agency 8%
- QLogic 25%
- Brocade 25%
- Terminex 8%
- Orange County 0%
- Trolltech 16%
- Homeland Security - Data Privacy Divison 0%
- Open Source Technology Group 0%
- DPRK Energy Research 0%
- Google 0%
- Aunt Annie's Pretzels 0%
- Yuenling Brewing Company, High Speed Networking Division 16%
- WIPO 0%

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Gosh, so many choices by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 01:46:26 PM EST
there's that one company famous for routers that likes to buy competitors, but I didn't think they made drivers. Then there's the company that makes chipsets and CPUs, I'm sure they make drivers.




Ah, yes. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 01:50:34 PM EST
Well, I don't want to get my hand slapped for talking about stuff I shouldn't, but both those ideas apply to $NEWCOMPANY.

As an aside, $NEWCOMPANY isn't the sort of company you hear about in the news, unless you read eWeek.

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Faith, and the possibility of weaponized kissing?
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I get my news from slashdot by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 01:56:54 PM EST
I guess I need to log in udner a different name and vote for some other companies.


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LoL. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 02:15:42 PM EST
you do get partial credit. The company you voted for was, in fact, sniffing around us - but they went and bought a competitor instead.


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Faith, and the possibility of weaponized kissing?
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I was at one firm once by lm (4.00 / 1) #5 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 03:32:12 PM EST
In the 18 months I was there, it was bought by a larger company which, in turn, was bought by a still yet larger company which, in turn, sold off the division I was in to another company which combined us with another asset and launched us as an IPO. Net consequence to me: zilch.

Oh, and a month after I left, another company bought up all the public shares and took it over.

Corporate transactions get kind of crazy sometimes. Here's hoping everything turns out for the better on your end!

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic


That beats me by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 05:31:42 PM EST
Back in the early 90s I changed jobs at least once every two years, whether I wanted to or not. It was seriously starting to worry me. The capper came when, after 2 years at a company, they went through an enormous shake up, which I survived but in a completely different job. 2 years later they were bought by a bigger company that (apparently) wanted to kill our product and then, 1 year later, bought by an even bigger company that had no idea what to do with us. I spent my last year waiting to be laid off. Jumped to a start up, which went under 2 years later. Jumped to another start up, 2 years in I panicked and went to $BIGPHARMA which, despite all outward appearances, is terrified about costs and, after a year, I returned to the previous job a few months ahead of the layoffs. Now, 2 years later....

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Faith, and the possibility of weaponized kissing?
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Not in my case, but around these parts by wumpus (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 07:30:06 PM EST
there are plenty of folks who have the same job(permatemps for government) and change employers on a regular basis. The going joke is one guy comes by to take your ID badge and the next guy gives you a new one.

Wumpus

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You live in the DC area? by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Oct 06, 2006 at 07:08:58 AM EST


Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)
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certainly by wumpus (2.00 / 0) #11 Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 06:56:08 PM EST
favorite local comment.

Wumpus

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yuengling! by garlic (4.00 / 1) #8 Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 07:54:48 PM EST
it's probably best for me that I can't get that here.



bizarre memory corruption issues at work by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #10 Fri Oct 06, 2006 at 07:14:22 AM EST
Well, if you (and Rusty) would lay off the sauce at work your memory wouldn't get so corrupt. Trust me, I have experience in these matters.

$BigDefenseCorp used to be 10 or so $LittleAndMediumDefenseCorps until the Merger Mania of the 80's and 90's in the defense sector. I have coworkers who've had 5 employers in the past 10 years without ever having to change offices.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)


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