Well, after reading mizu's entry, and kenny's, I'm beginning to wonder if bad mojo is just going around this week. We ALSO got bad news this friday. (probably just coincidence that the 1st financial quarter of the year has ended and the finance boys have done their homework) I did not catch all of the talk but terms like "drastic action" were being thrown around the all hands meeting. Apparently a "financial decision" will be made over the next 2 weeks. You know, the one we've been trying to avoid for 4 months. I think I heard more disturbing news in the tgif afterwards. Things like, my old boss in dev is no longer on the senor team, thus the east office officially has no voice in the major decisions of the company -- even though we are running close to 90% of production, all of the ml development, and basically funnelling the big money maker contract through our systems (dev->qa->prod->client). As that boss said, "The problem with [this company] has never been our technology." After that he invited us back to his house in 2 weeks if the bad news is something really horrible. Always reassuring.

It also bothers me that his vp and the president are trying to do spin control over the company at this late date. God, wtf? Just let us find new jobs, mf. Anyway- I asked someone to bring in tequilla and we had mixers for the tgif. It was a high turn out, and I think everyone felt better to have some down time. It's been awhile since I drank with some of these people, like kilby and ixthu, but I think it was the right thing to do. A lot of people got to vent.

I also found out that my old connection dw is looking desparately for web producers - making about 10k more than I am right now. So tempting an offer. Well - I don't want to grasp at just anything, so I put in chesh's name instead. (who also needs a better job) Anyway, I'm not sure I would be qualified.

Guru and I have made alternative plans to keep us a float in case the worse happens. The plan is once he finishes the thesis/school he will just continue on at Tesm in a full time role, while we wait to see whats going to happen to me. It might just be for the rest of this year, but that would be long enough. I think I'm even going to be able to take a week or two off between jobs, which I REALLY need. I don't think I've ever taken time off before. I always just roll right into the next position. And it shows. *stressed*

About the web producer thing...It's not that I want to work solely in print media. I actually would like to work on campaigns that involve e-advertising as well as the traditional forms. It is just that I think its really easy to become a web-monkey in that type of position, where all you are doing are banner ads and websites. (which is not a bad thing but) Also, it is more of a project manager job, and for once I'd like to be the talent, not the manager.

So, for now I'm going to wait and see what else appears. For all I know this half-assed situation at work is just going to continue into the summer, nay into the fall.