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Executing a Mass Departmental Exodus in the Workplace?
rerunn asks: "The recent story about the consultants from JBOSS walking out couldn't have had better timing. I'll save the drama and cut to the scenario: You and a few close co-workers make up the core grunts of 'the department'. The company relies heavily on your department for many services, some of which, other departments cannot provide. You like your job, it provides great satisfaction. Suddenly, the company realizes its in deep financial shit, and starts making cut backs. This impacts the department. You suddenly find yourself working 50-60 hour weeks, put on call with no compensation, given unreasonable amounts of work and generally treated like dirt. You get the feeling that the company is just going to take advantage of you no matter how and what happens. You get together with the rest of the department for a 'fsck this company' meeting and decide to walk out. Have you ever done this?? (We are so close!) What was the outcome?"
Six months of unemployment...
Was getting together with a guy from the cold line (I was a dishwasher) and walking out of a Mexican restaurant after telling the manager we were going in search of the perfect taco...
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
Europa Endlos
You work for EDS?
discarded Pizza boxes are an inexpensive source of Cheese.
What are you going to suggest next, labor unions? Do you think that you and your buddies are entitled to be treated like human beings?
If you were a real man, you'd volunteer to work 80 hour weeks and come up with a plan to replace all of your colleagues with contract developers from India and Romania.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
the company will just replace you with people that are hungry for work.
And the new guys will look at your code (or whatever you do) and say, "Man this is a mess. Where do I begin refactoring? I'm going to have to re-write this whole thing! How did you people ever put up with those losers? [language1]? Who uses [language1] anymore? We'll rewrite the whole thing in [language2]. You guys are so lucky those wankers quit!".
I had an idea like that once.
Really? What was it, Tom?
Well, alright. It was a jump to conclusions mat!
*puzzled looks*
You see, there'd be this mat that you'd lay on the floor and it would have different "conclusions" on it that you could jump to...
Never mind....
At my last company, I admit it wasn't until upper management said, "Well, how would you guys feel about working for stock."
Same thing happened to me. So I said "Screw you, Mr. Gates. This company is never going to be succesful. Microsoft will be a forgotten name with worthless stock in a year."
Ahh...obviously you're an insider, so perhaps you can tell us; when will Duke Nukem Forever be released?
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
where's the humour in these threads?!?
You know what I'd do? I'd get up on the back of a truck, and do a Presidential Speech a la the one done in Independence Day: "Today... we celebrate... INDEPENDENCE DAY"
-- james
ps Am I the only one that thinks that speech was the only decent part of that movie?
1. Quote Office Space
2. ???????
3. KARMA!!!!!