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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-01-03 10:38 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-01-03 10:38 pm
Weird work news
I don't check my work emails on my days off anymore, but then I got a couple texts about "oh, I heard about the big news today, how are you?"
The company I work for has always prided itself on being a small, local company. We've expanded within Colorado, the biggest at what we do, but that's been a big *thing* the whole time. Local! Family owned!
But they announced (via an email sent today) that on December 31st, the owners sold the company to a group of investors. They don't "anticipate" that this will change things day to day for any of us. The investment group in question is from California, I think, though the email said our new CEO (who heads said group) will be "moving his family here from Canada." Apparently the goal is to expand nationally.
So... that's interesting. It explains a couple things that had been happening on the corporate side, for sure.
Not sure completely how I feel about it. I *literally* said in my year-end post ON THE 31ST that I wished this company felt like the same company it was when I started... but as of that day, I guess it really wasn't the same company anymore.
It's great that they say they don't think it's going to change things for most of us, but at the same time, who knows? I've seen the same said to a lot of friends in different fields when a company or organization changed hands or was merged/acquired/etc... just before the new owners decided they wanted to bring their own people in.
(Probably unlikely that I'm facing a sudden loss of job. Not because I'm irreplaceable or anything, but there'd be very little reason to get rid of the people who know our systems and have gone through the required state certifications.
But eventually?)
My bigger concern would be that this will simply continue our long, slow slide away from quality toward quantity/profit, which sucks and just gets more soul-sucking. This company was very good to me when I was in a rough spot, but I know the loyalty it instilled in me is one-sided. Still, I'm not looking forward to it likely growing more impersonal.
I could be proven wrong; maybe the new investors and the new CEO will know better how to run a company, rather than some of the questionable decisions they've made as they've expanded. But I'm not wildly optimistic.
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Aside from that rocky new year news:
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snowflake_challenge is happening again, as it always does in January.
I have done the first two challenges so far:
Challenge #1: Update fandom info. I did this yesterday, and it is now stickied on my journal. I'll probably tweak it in the future (maybe to try and give a better sense of my non-fannish stuff, too) but I'm glad to have it up! I haven't had an "about me" type sticky in the past, though I kept meaning to, ha.
Challenge #2: Set goals for the coming year. I did this on January 1st. Some goals are fandom-related, some are personal. The most concrete ones are definitely regarding writing!
Not sure if I'll do all the challenges this month (I'll decide as they come up), but glad to have at least started it.
The company I work for has always prided itself on being a small, local company. We've expanded within Colorado, the biggest at what we do, but that's been a big *thing* the whole time. Local! Family owned!
But they announced (via an email sent today) that on December 31st, the owners sold the company to a group of investors. They don't "anticipate" that this will change things day to day for any of us. The investment group in question is from California, I think, though the email said our new CEO (who heads said group) will be "moving his family here from Canada." Apparently the goal is to expand nationally.
So... that's interesting. It explains a couple things that had been happening on the corporate side, for sure.
Not sure completely how I feel about it. I *literally* said in my year-end post ON THE 31ST that I wished this company felt like the same company it was when I started... but as of that day, I guess it really wasn't the same company anymore.
It's great that they say they don't think it's going to change things for most of us, but at the same time, who knows? I've seen the same said to a lot of friends in different fields when a company or organization changed hands or was merged/acquired/etc... just before the new owners decided they wanted to bring their own people in.
(Probably unlikely that I'm facing a sudden loss of job. Not because I'm irreplaceable or anything, but there'd be very little reason to get rid of the people who know our systems and have gone through the required state certifications.
But eventually?)
My bigger concern would be that this will simply continue our long, slow slide away from quality toward quantity/profit, which sucks and just gets more soul-sucking. This company was very good to me when I was in a rough spot, but I know the loyalty it instilled in me is one-sided. Still, I'm not looking forward to it likely growing more impersonal.
I could be proven wrong; maybe the new investors and the new CEO will know better how to run a company, rather than some of the questionable decisions they've made as they've expanded. But I'm not wildly optimistic.
-
Aside from that rocky new year news:
snowflake_challenge is happening again, as it always does in January.I have done the first two challenges so far:
Challenge #1: Update fandom info. I did this yesterday, and it is now stickied on my journal. I'll probably tweak it in the future (maybe to try and give a better sense of my non-fannish stuff, too) but I'm glad to have it up! I haven't had an "about me" type sticky in the past, though I kept meaning to, ha.
Challenge #2: Set goals for the coming year. I did this on January 1st. Some goals are fandom-related, some are personal. The most concrete ones are definitely regarding writing!
Not sure if I'll do all the challenges this month (I'll decide as they come up), but glad to have at least started it.