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Got all my cold calls finally finished today, and I'll tell you what, when you have thirty-five people to call and eight of them are unreachable for reasons like their numbers having been disconnected, the people at their offices never having heard of them, and similar, you're probably not going to get the thirty interviews you're aiming for. Yeah, so we'll need some more options -- but at least my whole spreadsheet is color-coded now.
Surprise all-staff meeting this afternoon, to tell us that the layer of government employees in between us and our clients is going away. Soon we'll be dealing with them on our own, which is good because fewer middle-men is always good and nobody will be taking our credit, but bad because fewer people going to bat for you is always bad and nobody will be taking our blame. We're pretty sure most if not all of them are being reassigned rather than laid off, so that's less bad than it could be, but given that a lot of us can't think of a solider reason for this than budget streamlining (we can think of other legitimate reasons, but that seems like the main one), there's a non-zero amount of apprehension w/r/t the hypothetical eventual day they decide to streamline us right out of existence. Right now and for the foreseeable future I have a job, but given that we didn't have an inkling about the disappearance of these middle-man colleagues until noonish today, I'm not sure how much of the future I can really foresee.
My friend College Roommate L had her baby! NoRMaN #4 (Not Really My Nephew) was born at 5:45 pm, 8 lbs 9 oz., and (according to his mother) already hungry. His parents and his big sisters NoRMaN #1 and NoRMaN #2 are well and very pleased. College Roommate K and her daughter NoRMaN #3 and I will be there visiting in (omfg) two weeks.
It is time to go to sleep, I think.
Surprise all-staff meeting this afternoon, to tell us that the layer of government employees in between us and our clients is going away. Soon we'll be dealing with them on our own, which is good because fewer middle-men is always good and nobody will be taking our credit, but bad because fewer people going to bat for you is always bad and nobody will be taking our blame. We're pretty sure most if not all of them are being reassigned rather than laid off, so that's less bad than it could be, but given that a lot of us can't think of a solider reason for this than budget streamlining (we can think of other legitimate reasons, but that seems like the main one), there's a non-zero amount of apprehension w/r/t the hypothetical eventual day they decide to streamline us right out of existence. Right now and for the foreseeable future I have a job, but given that we didn't have an inkling about the disappearance of these middle-man colleagues until noonish today, I'm not sure how much of the future I can really foresee.
My friend College Roommate L had her baby! NoRMaN #4 (Not Really My Nephew) was born at 5:45 pm, 8 lbs 9 oz., and (according to his mother) already hungry. His parents and his big sisters NoRMaN #1 and NoRMaN #2 are well and very pleased. College Roommate K and her daughter NoRMaN #3 and I will be there visiting in (omfg) two weeks.
It is time to go to sleep, I think.
