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?"

Comments

Result

[Robert Hayden]

Six months of unemployment...

Re:Result

[Wakko Warner]

Heh. The last place I worked (here) bought our office (we were a smaller company at first) and, within 6 months, had laid off 50% of the staff. Obviously, things went to shit from that point on. They fired just about everyone else the day after the Christmas party in '01, and I held out until the end of January. (I was making about 30% more at a better job within 2 weeks.)

I was happy to discover they've since gone chapter 11, and their stock (DVINQ) has been delisted from NASDAQ, and is now trading at $0.021. They couldn't even pay the 2003 NASDAQ listing fee! I might buy them up after I clean my couch.

Isn't karma a beautiful thing?

- A.P.

The closest I ever came...

[aborchers]

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...

Re:The closest I ever came...

[kenthorvath]

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...

And lo and behold! you found the commander on slashdot!

Just remember ...

[Alranor]

discarded Pizza boxes are an inexpensive source of Cheese.

Re:as good as it sound....

[utahjazz]

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!".

Re:No, but...

[kenthorvath]

So we're all stuck waiting it out until the market's better and we can move on or we finally come up with that great idea.

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....

Re:Reality

[91degrees]

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."

Re:as good as it sound....

[dylan_-]

Ahh...obviously you're an insider, so perhaps you can tell us; when will Duke Nukem Forever be released?

Re:No, but...

[jargoone]

Ah, I get it now:

1. Quote Office Space
2. ???????
3. KARMA!!!!!