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Cathy wrote:

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Homer wrote:

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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 I'm told that Senior Management had an emergency meeting last night.  They've decided that to try to calm the waters, they are going to have the sales guy talk to our team next week.  'Cause that always help.  You know.... sales has such a good handle generally on the realities of what we actually do.

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In what reality does Sr Mgmt think that is a GOOD idea?! OMG, that is going to fail so epically. Sales has NO idea what goes into anything and they think their job is always the hardest by an order of magnitude.

 

That said, please, please, PLEASE take notes on this meeting, I want to hear all the gory details after the fact.

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 lol.  It will be such an epic fail.  Like.... the team is quitting in mass numbers, and you think having SALES talk to us is going to help somehow??

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Is this Sr Mgmt former sales, by chance? That's the only thing that would make *any* sense. Usually mgmt treats sales as a necessary evil, not as a savior.

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Homer wrote:

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SensKat wrote:

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Homer wrote:

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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 I'm told that Senior Management had an emergency meeting last night.  They've decided that to try to calm the waters, they are going to have the sales guy talk to our team next week.  'Cause that always help.  You know.... sales has such a good handle generally on the realities of what we actually do.

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 Like sell something that can be done in an unrealistic deadline?

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 DING DING!

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I am so glad the sales team I deal with is rarely selling services that *I* need to deliver (we re-sell telecom and IT hardware). They're still annoying and cause problems, but at least they're not over-promising my capabilities.

I honestly don't know how you handle it without sales reps occasionally going missing under suspicious circumstances.

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SensKat wrote:

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Homer wrote:

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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 I'm told that Senior Management had an emergency meeting last night.  They've decided that to try to calm the waters, they are going to have the sales guy talk to our team next week.  'Cause that always help.  You know.... sales has such a good handle generally on the realities of what we actually do.

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 Like sell something that can be done in an unrealistic deadline?

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 DING DING!

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Homer wrote:

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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 I'm told that Senior Management had an emergency meeting last night.  They've decided that to try to calm the waters, they are going to have the sales guy talk to our team next week.  'Cause that always help.  You know.... sales has such a good handle generally on the realities of what we actually do.

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In what reality does Sr Mgmt think that is a GOOD idea?! OMG, that is going to fail so epically. Sales has NO idea what goes into anything and they think their job is always the hardest by an order of magnitude.

That said, please, please, PLEASE take notes on this meeting, I want to hear all the gory details after the fact.

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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Work is crazy in a good way for me. I had to clock in this week to keep tabs on that big dispute payout we've been working on for months…got $125k paid this month. So we're almost trued up. I still had to interrupt my time off but since I'm getting a finder's fee there was more carrot than stick involved.

It doesn't look like I'm going to actually GO anywhere during my time off though, just not enough time to arrange something with the puppy in the picture.

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SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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 I'm told that Senior Management had an emergency meeting last night.  They've decided that to try to calm the waters, they are going to have the sales guy talk to our team next week.  'Cause that always help.  You know.... sales has such a good handle generally on the realities of what we actually do.

SensKat wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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Things are pretty crazy at work too. They really need to hire someone like a couple months ago.  This is the client that I got extended on until end of year (or maybe end of September according to my timesheet code)

They need to hire at least two people. 

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Cathy wrote:

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So work sucks again. There are 15 people on my team. In the last 2 weeks, they've laid one off, and 3 have resigned. So we are down almost 1/3 of the team. And we just found out that one of our big implementation projects that was scheduled for go-live in August now has to be completed in early June. Yep, things are about to get really, really bad

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You and me, we gonna start our own company, kay? Everything will run smoothly, everyone will do their job, everything will be efficient. You with me?

"Early June" is like 9 week away. That's insane.

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 Completely rocked everyone that knows.  And the 2 most recent resignations are long-term staff who can't really be replaced.  This SUCKS.

 

Also, Chuckie did something.

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 Were the resignations expected or was it the proverbial straw and they gave 2 weeks?

Chuckie did NOTHING according to my card.

Oh *that's* what Chuckie did, I am almost too far behind to be in the thread.

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Homer wrote:

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Cathy wrote:

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bah.

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 That was an "Oops my bad" on Forsberg.

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 Can we call it a deviation too? Pretty please?

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We don't usually include off the goalie as a deviation.  But that wasn't even a shot on goal, so ???

Full disclosure, that would be a corner dab for me.

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 Can I reserve the right to change my mind later??

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 Nope.. Chuckie did something and deviated a puck in the net.