Exhale and reorg
Mar. 3rd, 2024 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonWell, we got the big work news, and it's neither as bad nor as good as it could have been; so I don't have to rage-quit, I get to move onward with forming up my little team. The news -- and I apologize for being so flaming corporate here -- is that we're getting a new VP who's coming in from a company rhyming with SpikroLoft. My boss (a director) and the other directors who previously reported to Last VP, plus one more, will report to him, and he, new VP, will report in to... UX! Not our previous SVP! What's that you say, you vaguely remember me working about as far from UX as it's possible to get? Yes, well. It's true. But those other directors all run analysis teams (not eng teams) which largely analyze user-facing experiments, so, if you decide that us engineers are there solely as support staff for the analysts, it makes some sense for us to tag along. It'll actually be interesting to be in a minority-engineering org at a company that's usually so heavily soaked in eng. Things could get miserable, but I think we'll have some time before it happens.
It will also be interesting to see if our CEO (Mr. Pitch AI, as I refer to him) gets ousted. A lot of external people are calling for his head, currently over something really stupid. At any rate, guess I'm staying to watch the show for a little while longer. Mentally, I snapped over into perfectly serene mode the moment the news actually broke -- it's other people's turn to freak out now. The important bit for me is that I'm keeping my director for the moment; I don't mind being a second-class citizen in the UX org, and I don't care about whether we might reorg again in a year either. I just want to eat my metaphorical popcorn and do team things for a while longer.
I'm expecting to see a wave of resignations next week, as Friday was the critical day for us to be employed in order to get our annual bonus. Ironically, Friday was given to us as a day off, and I've done no work over the long weekend. I've just been letting my nervous system reset somewhat. I went to see Dune 2 with the bug on Friday, and afterward we randomly ran into two of his old friends and spontaneously had dinner all together, so that was nice; and Saturday/Sunday were largely about hurrying to get workouts done, as per usual. All my time with the squirrel was chill and restful. Got a bit of time alone at home today, and that was super good and quiet and I did nothing "productive" then either.
I'm not sure I accomplished much last week, other than hate-listening through I'm Glad My Mom Died (on which topic yeah, yikes, I'm glad her mom died too). So basically that's a lot of getting nothing done, and I should probably be feeling behind, but I don't because it all feels so fake right now. Perfectly reasonable/normal fake stuff that I can engage with tomorrow.
It will also be interesting to see if our CEO (Mr. Pitch AI, as I refer to him) gets ousted. A lot of external people are calling for his head, currently over something really stupid. At any rate, guess I'm staying to watch the show for a little while longer. Mentally, I snapped over into perfectly serene mode the moment the news actually broke -- it's other people's turn to freak out now. The important bit for me is that I'm keeping my director for the moment; I don't mind being a second-class citizen in the UX org, and I don't care about whether we might reorg again in a year either. I just want to eat my metaphorical popcorn and do team things for a while longer.
I'm expecting to see a wave of resignations next week, as Friday was the critical day for us to be employed in order to get our annual bonus. Ironically, Friday was given to us as a day off, and I've done no work over the long weekend. I've just been letting my nervous system reset somewhat. I went to see Dune 2 with the bug on Friday, and afterward we randomly ran into two of his old friends and spontaneously had dinner all together, so that was nice; and Saturday/Sunday were largely about hurrying to get workouts done, as per usual. All my time with the squirrel was chill and restful. Got a bit of time alone at home today, and that was super good and quiet and I did nothing "productive" then either.
I'm not sure I accomplished much last week, other than hate-listening through I'm Glad My Mom Died (on which topic yeah, yikes, I'm glad her mom died too). So basically that's a lot of getting nothing done, and I should probably be feeling behind, but I don't because it all feels so fake right now. Perfectly reasonable/normal fake stuff that I can engage with tomorrow.
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Date: 2024-03-04 06:12 am (UTC)So far I'm pretty comfortable with my own recent reorg situation (team moved to a different engineering org, then I made a further change to a cousin team under the same great-grandboss we moved under); here's hoping yours both starts and continues well. (You're welcome to ask work-me for more details on mine if you'd like.)